Re: High voltage standing waves with a magnetron?

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Original poster: "mercurus2000" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net> 

Thanks for all the advice and cautions, I will proceed carefully with this
experiment and let everyone know what happens, I have a microwave leakage
detector to check for dangerous output.
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Subject: Re: High voltage standing waves with a magnetron?


 > Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
 >
 > "If you do this experiment --- be very careful.
 >
 > Microwaves cook part of your eye and you can go instantly blind in both
 > eyes
 > in seconds.
 >
 > If not in a proper enclosure you might wish to pass on this experiment.
 >
 > Dr. Resonance "
 >
 > I suspect this is a bit overcautions but very much worth noting.  It's
 > hard to do experiments involving moving things around on completely
 > enclosed stuff. If you do play around certainly avoid shining the output
 > of the magnetron, or reflections of it, into your face.  I've worked in
 > high-power radar for well over 50 years and don't know of anyone who
 > lost his vision because of exposure (even foolish exposure, of which
 > there's too much), but the correlation of exposure and later cataracts
 > is certain so you may not notice the effect of your careless until many
 > years later.
 >
 > I have had cataracts removed recently, but the doctor who did the work
 > thought it was "merely old age" and not microwave exposure.  Others I
 > know have not been so fortunate.
 >
 > Ed
 >
 >