Re: [TCML] Microwave inverter?

[David Rieben <drieben@xxxxxxx>]

Actually, it's pretty easy to distinguish between an iron cored transformer driven 
microwave and one of the newer inverter type units - if the oven feels unduely 
light of weight for its power rating when picked up, it's almost certainly an inver-
ter driven unit. The iron core transformers probably contributed to at nearly half 
of the weight of a microwave oven. BTW, have any of you MOT coilers ever got-
ten a hold of the 240 volt powered institutional microwave oven transformers?
(This is mainly directed to the North American coilers as European and Aus-
tralian mains is all 230 or 240 volts). I'm just kind of curious about how beastly 
one of these transformers would be ;^)

David


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 From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Microwave inverter?
 
I think this may have been discussed here but I wonder if the output of 
the inverter could be rectified and used to charge the capacitor of a 
'DC' excited TC.  Easy enough to try for someone with the ambition!  As 
for the iron taking the beating, it's too bad the folks who build the 
'good old iron core' transformers didn't put enough iron in them to keep 
them from getting way too hot on 120V.

Ed

Scott Moseley wrote:

>It would be fun to watch the smoke.  Nothing beats "iron" for taking a beating
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>I recently got my hands on a Panasonic microwave oven (hors de combat). 
>Instead of the usual iron brick MOT, it has an inverter as a HV source. 
>Other than scavenging it for parts, is it useful?
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