Saturday 14 January 2017

transformer - What are the bare minimum parts needed to operate a magnetron?


I recently took apart a microwave, and I managed to get a magnetron out of it, as well as a transformer that appears to be the power source for the magnetron, but looks a little small for the advertised amount of power this magnetron can handle (~1 kW). Also, the magnetron does not have any leads for supplying the filament voltage, just for the HV. I would like to get that magnetron running, I plan to put on a waveguide and do a bit of experimentation with microwaves.


1) Does the magnetron have something built in to step down a fraction of the power recieved to the 3.3V required to heat the filament?


2) Is it possible to run the magnetron simply by powering the microwave transformer with mains and hooking up the hv output to the input of the magnetron, or do I need a microwave capacitor? I was not able to locate a capacitor in the microwave, I think that might be because it is an inverter-style microwave.




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