Clearly, as your bog standard microwave oven can only handle at most one kilowatt; the ‘oven’ needed a bit of an upgrade. A 16 kW water-cooled magnetron. Why not over-drive it to 20 kW for fun?

The whooshing sound a microwave oven makes has nothing to do with the magnetron, which resonates at a frequency far too high for human hearing. The noise is from the fan that blows air across the ...

If your station uses 2 GHz ENG frequencies A08 or A09, in the 2450 to 2483.5 MHz range, you are probably aware of the potential for microwave oven interference. Researchers at the University of ...

Wikimedia Commons The Microwave Oven A component called the magnetron generates microwaves from electricity inside the microwave oven.

All microwave ovens are equipped with magnetrons, which are not a kind of Transformer, but a device that emits electromagnetic (micro) waves.

Radiation expert Professor Magda Havas of Trent University tells us the dangers of lazily popping our meals in the oven - and watching them cook.