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Microwave TC

Original poster: Steve Conner <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


if you forget to put a resistive load
inside a microwave oven, then you've got a high-Q, high frequency, high
voltage resonator driven by about a kilowatt RF source at the same
frequency.   It's 2.5GHz Tesla coil.

I always wondered about this. Could you make a 2.5GHz VTTC by fixing a breakout wire to the antenna on a MO magnetron, choosing the wire length for a voltage maximum at the tip? Of course for safety you would have to enclose it all in a faraday cage (such as the oven it came with)

But then according to this poster, you can make one by just leaving the glass plate out and putting a fork in the oven ;)


Steve Conner