If you get hit from an open waveguide it feels like flame.
From: Jan-GAMs Sent: Saturday, January 1, 2022 5:03 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT having fun 1250 watts of 5GHz radiation or 2GHz of radiation (whichever spectrum it was designed for) is damn dangerous if not shielded. I knew people who died from that. Someone turned on a radar while the array was being worked on. He died. You could pull a Daniel Jackson, but Olma won't ascend you. On 1/1/22 09:04, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: Yeah, I have a radiation alarm. It was going off continually, for a moment I thought it was defective. Turns out I had a thermocouple wire leaking some RF. Burnt the piss out of my fingers, like picking up a red hot paper clip. Shut off the magnetron and the wire was totally cool to the touch. Bit of aluminum foil as a choke and all was well. Next step is coupling a second magnetron to this cavity. From: Jan-GAMs Sent: Saturday, January 1, 2022 4:08 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT having fun the warning about eyes and testes should be noted. https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/resources-you-radiation-emitting-products/microwave-oven-radiation On 12/31/21 16:48, Jaime Solorza wrote: Pee on it...it works On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 1:37 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: Got a pretty bad RF burn from some leakage. No blister. Sent from my iPhone -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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