Pretty much. The cavity magnetron is highly resonant, I doubt it shuts off in less than 50ms or so. Same with transformer feeding it. Takes a bit for the magnetic fields to die out.
I wouldn't worry about it personally. The biggest danger is cooking your eyeballs and a few milliseconds isn't enough
at a previous job I was sitting in the break room with a then-coworker.
A very funny older coworker of ours entered and went to heat something in the microwave. After waiting a couple of minutes he decided he'd crack the microwave open and check on his food.
The machine was old and malfunctioning and somehow the latching mechanism failed and the microwave didn't stop running! The older fellow, being fairly quirky, didn't think twice and stuck his head right in the running microwave to spy on his food.
We yelled in chorus "NO $NAME NO! Get out! Close the door!"
One of the strangest, and funniest things I'd seen at that place (and there had been ...many).
What do you figure a few seconds of a human head in a running microwave would do?
Hahahaha that's awesome. he's prolly okay, skull is sorta thick and humans have lots of water.
I have heard that pain will warn you before heat damage is done, at least for realistic power levels and frequencies. And not including the eyes because they have poor blood flow and little feeling beneath the surface. Not sure where I heard that though, so it could be BS.
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Pretty much. The cavity magnetron is highly resonant, I doubt it shuts off in less than 50ms or so. Same with transformer feeding it. Takes a bit for the magnetic fields to die out.
I wouldn't worry about it personally. The biggest danger is cooking your eyeballs and a few milliseconds isn't enough
This is a story I'll never forget...
at a previous job I was sitting in the break room with a then-coworker.
A very funny older coworker of ours entered and went to heat something in the microwave. After waiting a couple of minutes he decided he'd crack the microwave open and check on his food.
The machine was old and malfunctioning and somehow the latching mechanism failed and the microwave didn't stop running! The older fellow, being fairly quirky, didn't think twice and stuck his head right in the running microwave to spy on his food.
We yelled in chorus "NO $NAME NO! Get out! Close the door!"
One of the strangest, and funniest things I'd seen at that place (and there had been ...many).
What do you figure a few seconds of a human head in a running microwave would do?
Nothing.
The microwave oven was actually invented by accident when a WWII-era magnetron technician noted that the candy bars in his pocket kept melting.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/a-brief-his...
Hahahaha that's awesome. he's prolly okay, skull is sorta thick and humans have lots of water.
I have heard that pain will warn you before heat damage is done, at least for realistic power levels and frequencies. And not including the eyes because they have poor blood flow and little feeling beneath the surface. Not sure where I heard that though, so it could be BS.
The brain has some of the best blood flow in the body, so maybe nothing.