[loungitude]

Please treat the transformer/capacitor from a microwave oven with extreme respect. The energy from that system is most unforgiving and would be instantly fatal in many scenarios.

[Paladin2]

This microwave was made by Litton back in the day and served a long life.

Even during the ~8 years since it's been out of service, I haven't bothered to take a second look inside the power section.

[JRandomFreeper]

I got my first ticket when I was 11. Mom sent me down to the FCC center in downtown Dallas to take the test. My first ride on a bus by myself.

I built my HW-101 later that year. And got rid of the ARC-5 transmitter and old Hallicrafter receiver I had been using.

I built the power supply for the HW-101 because I couldn't afford to buy the one heathkit provided.

That transformer was given to me by an Elmer. I had to figure out primaries (yes, plural) and secondaries.

Got heater, B- and all those special voltages out of it, rectified, and smooth as a kitten. Life lesson in inductance and capacitance.

I've been playing with 'lektrikity for a long, long time.

What I talk my brother-in-laws into doing is my business. ;)

/johnny