Microwave Science Experiments - Will it blow up? What can we stick in? Microwave Night at MITERS

Step 2 Light Bulbs

If you put metal in a microwave, the metal will arc and spark. We just want to see if we can make these lightbulbs turn on, so we hide the metal in water, in a crystal chalice, which solves the arcing and sparking problem. (plastic would work just as well).

The lightbulbs have a cool repeating pattern, thanks to the impeller. If you took the impeller out, or had a turntable microwave and removed the turntable, you would get constant light from the bulbs, and could use them as an energy/node detector to find the strong and weak points of the field. From here you can clearly see why your food only thaws/cooks in some spots, and not others.

I like the lighthouse-like effect a lot.

Comments

[Treknology]

An impeller, and a turntable actually linked to the on/off cycle of the magnetron would vastly improve wave distribution.