Radiation from microwave ovens

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True Blue,
Now what sort of response was that?
This 'Willem' can be a tad abrupt at times,can't he? (Ask Kelly).
The honest truth is that, since we, (I),bought the microwave, our family size has not increased. (Disclaimers available on request).
Maaf. Jeff.

May I respectfully enquire Sir! as to your true and/or real motivation about asking such a question about an item and subject that has been done to death since they were introduced in the early 1980's.

Is it as I suspect - that it is you wish, to with wanton intent, secretly and covertly install one of these suckers in a CT or the Tent with a generator booming away to power it.

C'mon now, you have been busted and we need you to fess up to the true nature of such a question.

Yes! a Honda 2.0i will run your radiation emitting piece of electronic C H I T no problems.

Your wife will be sterilised along with the cat, dog and parrot and your pacemaker will 'fry', however you will be 'out there' enjoying the open sky.

If you start to feel hot, DON'T PANIC, as it will only be your 'EMR emitter' receiving excess 'boost' from George Bush's lastest anti-personnel weapon.

All in all I think you should get two just in case.

I think I will go to Bed Now. LOL

Evening Willem and Jeff

G'day Wayne, we have a gadget here at work which the sparky used 2 or 3 times a year to test all of the microwaves on site. Mate even the 10yo once white, now black, never been cleaned by the pigs who use it microwave leaks no microwave radiation.

Tell her she's dreamin'...

Well, That fried That, eh.
Real good value.

Strewth, may just as well chuck sticks at Cicadas.

Or stare at Goats.

C'mon people, it's not 'The Day of the Triffids.............
...........Oh Dear
My Error Flynn........

About 10 years ago before the days of vibrating mobile phones, my brother in law who is a bobcat operator purchased an accessory for his mobile to alert him that his phone was ringing when he could not hear it while operating the noisy bobcat.
It was a small unit that went into his pocket. It would pick up a signal from his ringing mobile phone up to 1 metre away and would vibrate savagely whenever the phone was ringing.
I was at his house one night when it started to vibrate on the kitchen bench. His phone was not ringing. When his wife stopped using the microwave it stopped.
We then did some tests and were amazed that if the unit was held directly in line with the door of the microwave at the same height, it would pick up the frequency and vibrate up to 1.5 metres away. If we moved the unit off to the side it did not pick up any signal until it was moved in to under 0.5 metres. The microwave was almost new.
From that day I have always been cautious and stand to the side of the microwave whenever it is operating.

Cheers,
Brett

Waaay back when Fred Flinstone was a boy, we bought our first microwave oven. Having a background in microwaves, even further back, I had somewhat similar concerns for my wife (and my personals at that time). I made a small microwave leakage detector and ran it around every microwave oven we bought for the next 20 years. Result was very little leakage, not enough to even think about.
The chances of brain tumours from mobile phones would have to rate more highly.
Of course if you had the microwave next to your ear and operated it as often, over time it could be a different story.

Disclaimer: I am not, nor have I ever been a medical researcher.

If you have ever enjoyed watching fishing boats, ships etc entering harbour, then you are likely being blasted by "uncontained" microwave radiation.
The effect of radar waves on water was accidently discovered during research into radar waves around the second world war.

even on a smallish marine radar, the exclusion area is only in the region of a couple of meters. However I have constantly been amazed at the "gin palaces" that are built with Targa towers at the rear of the flybridges holding radar scanners at near the same height as the drivers head.

Hi True Blue

With all those posts you'd think you would have got a simple straight answer.

It is that there is no radiation emitted by a (non-faulty) microwave oven
that is even close to what is considered a hamful level.

In a previous life I was a technical/commercial manager of Philips consumer products and such testing came under that umbrealla.

Now before you wife raises the issue of " is the offical level really safe" consider this.

The frequency of microwave radiation is close to the high band in the new mobile phones , and the level of their radiation is massively lower than that of the phone.

Hence I suggest that you rush to your wife with a pair of long tongs in your hand , and grab her phone with the tongs (so as to aviod getting to close to it) and dump the phone before in rings again.

Disclaimer

I will not be held responsible for any resulting injuries or divorces arising out of following the advice contained in this post.

Robin Miller

Thanks to all that replied to this thread.

I hadn't though much about the problem (I know I'm ignorant). But my daughter in law said that she would never have a microwave in the house, and I thouht, hang on, your using a mobile phone all the time. I know just who to ask the question and
you, as expected, didn't let me down. I will let her know the results asap. She'll probably think, "silly old bugger", what would he know.

Thanks again and cheers to all.

Wayne (True Blue)

I must have copped a few blasts from sitting round a night zapping things in microwaves.

Eggs can blow the doors off.

A quote from the USA Food and Drug administration website regarding microwave oven testers:
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A word of caution about the microwave testing devices being sold to consumers: FDA has tested a number of these devices and found them generally inaccurate and unreliable. If used, they should be relied on only for a very approximate reading. The sophisticated testing devices used by public health authorities to measure oven leakage are far more accurate and are periodically tested and calibrated.
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So if your oven becomes faulty and starts leaking, I don't know how you could tell?

Mike Harding

CD's go well too. Lots of sparkles and then they don't work real well. The kids taught me that one.

It makes you wonder whet goes through a 3 yearolds head sometimes.