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You can buy leakage detectors. If you test a microwave oven for leakage, then your mobile phone during a call, you will see there is much more to be wary of in your mobile phone use.
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Is there an EU standard for toast size.
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Normally this is just a high voltage diode, the magnatrons don't pack up. If you are opening the back this will not break any seals as these are on the door. Use a mulitmeater and check to see if open circuit. You will see it, its a dirty great big diode. Don't run the microwave with the back removed. P.s you can get replacement s on flee bay but make sure it is rated for microwave use as the voltages are a lot higher than normal.
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The stored DC in there can be 2 to 4Kv, which is absolutely lethal. The caps are fitted with a discharge system, to allow the HV to safely leak away, but commonly these safety devices do fail. So I would never suggest the inexperienced delve into microwave ovens. Is it ever worth risking your life, for the £50 cost of replacing them, when you don't have much of a clue? Me, personally I do, but then I am well aware of the risks and the precautions to take. Our present oven failed last year, so I dived in armed with a means of making sure the HV cap was fully discharged before starting to get too involved. As it happened, the fuse for the HV transformer had popped. Ten minutes later it was fixed from my fuse stock and at no cost. That was a £150 oven and well worth my effort to at least take a look.
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We use a Toshiba that SWMBO brought back from Liberia in about 1980. Works perfectly and weighs a ton.
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8th February 2015, 16:58 | #16 |
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Which weighs a ton, the SWMBO or the microwave
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Personally I have had a normal microwave for years, but am now thinking of buying a convection Microwave Oven. Any recommendations?
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I think their definition of microwave cooking is incorrect. Microwaves raise the temperature from the inside, so they cook from the inside to the outside.
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We have a combi, but have only ever used it as a simple microwave. Microwaves only cook from the inside, to a limited extent. The deeper the RF has to penetrate, the weaker they become, so really they do cook from the outside in to some extent. It is wrong to suggest they cook entirely from the inside, wrong to say the cook from the outside - its a mix. You can see this if you boil water in a glass container and watch it through the window. It will first come to a boil around the circumference and only at the side where the magnetron is. Spread of heat deeper is via conduction/convection. So you get items in the microwave boiling over on the outside, yet still frozen in the middle. Microwaves heat things up by 'jangling' the water molecules about, hence why cooking food with high moisture works so well. A normal oven cooks / heats food by heating up the outer surface only, then heat spreads deeper by conduction/ convection.
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