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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Between WA and VIC
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Hi all,
At work today, we had an electrician come in for the yearly testing and tagging. After testing all of our appliances in our kitchen, he discovered that one of our microwaves has been leaking radiation. It's been leaking at 8.1mW per square cm. Apparently this is really dangerous. I've been working with this microwave for almost a year. Which just makes you wonder, how many people could have the same problem and not even know about it? Makes me want to get mine tested at home. Has anyone ever had theirs tested? Yes I'm really bored by the way ![]()
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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How old is the microwave? I was told that newer microwave ovens don't leak... ?
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LPG > You
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Well, this scared me, thinking about my 11 year old microwave and all, but I've found this, so I'm no longer concerned...
http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW/microwave_ovens.html To quote a part of it... Quote:
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Leura, Blue Mountains
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ROFL @ the pigeon bits hahaha..
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Formerly au^ute
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: VIC
Posts: 1,032
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Cool, im not so worried about that crack in my microwave door now
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Down the Obi..
Posts: 4,648
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Was going to say... my microwave has had a huge crack in the door for years... But there's obviously nothing wrong with me!
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Shoot.
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Glen Waverley, Vic
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Surely it's chemical change when you burn the food???
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Near Canberra
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Years ago as part of my job I had to test microwave ovens in the schools, after 4 years of testing every microwave oven in western NSW I only ever found two that lit up the tester. It was obvious that they had problems due to broken doors or faulty locks as well. So if your oven is not obviously damaged it probably dosent leak.
Regards, Tote
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Location: Melb
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I think the best thing about microwave ovens is how they were invented, I don't know the full detail of the story but basically a guy in a lab working on microwave transmitters for communications gear noticed that when he was standing in front of the transmitter he began to feel warm!!!
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