About exciting passive circuits and magnetrons.
Jonatan wrote:
You maybe knowing your microwave's inner workings.
It uses a microwave valve which consists of LC chambers of 2.4 GHz.
And they are excited with a dc hv of must be 50 Hz.
Now we have two possibilities, the output is in trains or constant rf
output.
Who of the hams here can messure that output ?
The transformer has a core bypass to handle the reactive load. There is
a power rectifier and a capacitor to (somewhat) smooth the 1KV output.
Still, magnetrons are sensitive to the cathode volts they see, so the
output varies somewhat in frequency and amplitude at line frequency.
Brian W
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