Radiation hazards from inefficient microwave oven?

It's like a neon screwdriver but has an LED and batteries in it. Described as a 'MEET' All Weather (!?!?).

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A neon pilot bulb. If you think it doesn't work, try putting one in the microwave!

A bit of a difference between 1000 watts and a few milliwatts though.

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What youre describing is obviously a very long way removed from the first cooker. At the first witnessed microwave cooking event the cooker had no door and was pointed toward the audience, but this was not a commercial oven.

Cookers were a logical development on from dishes that could cook pigeons, and were open and routinely rf irradiated the people on board. Moving to 2.4GHz would make a lot more energy absorbed and turn to heat, hence the burn risk. Until then no-one had any reason to believe there was any reason not to expose themselves to microwaves.

NT

The message I replied to stated "First Microwave Oven", not an irradiation system.

we know that

NT

: Was the original 250 V fuse a white ceramic? You do not want a :common 125 V fuse if the circuit requires the sand filled ceramic that :is made to prevent a ball of plasma from melting it the next time it :blows. It can do a lot of damage, or even start a fire.

It was evidently ceramic, but the color wasn't white. It was a sort of tan or beige. I'm kind of color blind so I'm not good with colors, but it was definitely not white.

Then you need to replace it with a ceramic fuse. they are designed to prevent a ball of plasma from forming and continuing to arc. Using a regular glass fuse in its place is a liability issue.