Re: Creative Microwavery Message #17 Posted by Dave Shaffer on 4 May 2002, 1:22 a.m., in response to message #13 by Paul Brogger
I love it - tried several AOL CDs already. This really does make a great light show. Even my wife (another astronomer), who often takes a dim view of such "experiments" was impressed.
So far, I've only had the nerve to run the microwave for 4 or 5 seconds, which pretty well fries the CD. Anybody have a feeling for how long you can really run run the oven before the magnetron gets tired of such shenanigans? I think modern microwave ovens are pretty robust, but at some point all that unabsorbed power (actually, the CD is probably absorbing a fair amount) goes back into heating up the tube.
As near as I can tell, this may be the REAL reason that both microwave ovens and AOL CDs were invented!
What else should we be frying?!
Dave
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