RE: [TCML] Going OT: 1300 Watt Microwave Inverter Module...

[Nick Andrews <nicothefabulous@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting, I have often thought of doing something similar.  What did you use for your wave guide, aluminum sheet?  If you put a breakout point on the topload to direct it, you'd still have the problem of changing the capacitance, unless your guide was nonmetallic, in which case it'd just be more of a tube, wouldn't it?

Well, the Future Weapons episode mentioned earlier was kinda like that.  I always wanted a directional EMP device...

Nick A




> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 08:50:32 -0600
> From: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [TCML] 1300 Watt Microwave Inverter Module and a quaestion...
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> Every microwave oven I've had that died it was always the control board.  I removed the magnatron from and power supply from one and built a 24" long wave guide.  I stuck a slide of bread to the wall 20 ft across the room aim and shoot with my home made microwave gun it warmed the bread up to about 140 degrees in about 15 seconds.  I shot a bird out of the tree in the back yard 40 ft away, the bird fell like a rock then came back to life and flew away.  I aimed the micro wave gun at my Tesla Coil but to no effect.  It would be interesting to find a way to shoot a TC streamer through the air in a beam of some sort like a microwave beam or laser beam or some other beam.
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> -----Original Message-----
> >From: bartb <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Mar 3, 2009 9:10 PM
> >To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: [TCML] 1300 Watt Microwave Inverter Module and a quaestion...
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> >Of the few Microwave Ovens I've had that have died, each and every time 
> >it was the diode. However, once coiling entered my life, for some reason 
> >"I just couldn't figure out what went wrong".
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> >Bart
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> >Nick Andrews wrote:
> >> I have been lucky enough to find two of the old Amana Radaranges, the BIG ones with no window in the door!  Magnetrons and MOTs from them are, shall we say, large.
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> >> I have seen a couple with good fuses that run just fine, but heat nothing...haven't had the time to diagnose them any further than that, though.  Figure it's the HV diode maybe, or even just a bad connection in the doubler circuit.  Need to make some time...
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