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So this is what my dad just brought home for me, complete with a dead bird. This will be my first time taking apart a microwave so is there anything I should make sure to grab/ pay special attention to?
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grab just about everything out of it. there's lot of nice switches near the door, the circuit board usually has some heavy duty relays and stuff. the fan can be useful for wire or as... a fan. then theres the obvious Hv transformer, capacitor, and diode. if it had a turntable to rotate food, that has a nice geared motor. all the misc connecting wire is usually pretty beefy.
edit: hell, you can even take the metal grid out of the door to use as a faraday cage
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ah it's all apart, cap wasn't charged, ive got all the nice bits laid out now. Looks like it's time for another project! The microwave came with schematics inside, I can post them if anyone wants.
The metal grid was the door so there was no getting that out, is the glass shielded at all or is it just glass?
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Camp Badger wrote ...
ah it's all apart, cap wasn't charged, ive got all the nice bits laid out now. Looks like it's time for another project! The microwave came with schematics inside, I can post them if anyone wants.
The metal grid was the door so there was no getting that out, is the glass shielded at all or is it just glass?
It is almost surely just glass. Due to the inherent long wavelength of microwaves the screen provides all the shielding required for safety.
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I kind of doubt it. your circuit would have to be super heavy duty, your electrodes would probably melt, but most importantly, plasma speakers usually require a high frequency, and those frequencies would turn your iron core transformer into a short lived induction space heater.
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Forty wrote ...
I kind of doubt it. your circuit would have to be super heavy duty, your electrodes would probably melt, but most importantly, plasma speakers usually require a high frequency, and those frequencies would turn your iron core transformer into a short lived induction space heater.
See, the idea behind plasma speakers is to make a drive signal that is effectively above human hearing. Then, you turn that signal off and on to music. That's how they work. Since MOTS run at low frequencies, 50-60 hz, you'd hear more humming than music, if any at all.
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