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Playing with microwaves carries many risks. Even without getting electricity involved, the magnetron contains beryllium oxide which can be fatal to humans if it
by edianorh 4y ago
Playing with microwaves carries many risks. Even without getting electricity involved, the magnetron contains beryllium oxide which can be fatal to humans if it gets into the lungs. Just to disassemble one, you need to know what the magnetron looks like and not try to disassemble it.
Like many other appliances, it has capacitors, which may remain charged for a long time too. Those are dangerous too.
- ugjka 4y agoThank God we didn't have any microwave ovens when I was a kid because I liked to disassemble everything But there was one capacitor from a photo flashlight that was close to killing me if I touched the ends, but thankfully it discharged on my screwdriver
- edianorh 4y agoI got zapped by the capacitor of a photo flash twice. I studied electronics, I was being carefully, and still I messed up. The second time I was being even more careful and I thought the capacitor was discharged. I'm not even sure how it happened, I was holding the PCB by the edges.
- ugjka 4y agoMine was a bigass capacitor from a mountable flash that plugged into the mains, that thing definitely kills
- SV_BubbleTime 4y ago>Just to disassemble one, you need to know what the magnetron looks like and not try to disassemble it. I know what you’re going for here, but it’s a funny sentence.