|
|
|
|
Microwave recommendation?
(Ken) wrote in
:
> Microwaves usually have only one power setting in reality. If you set
> it for a power setting of 5, it's on high power 50% of the time, a
> setting of 2 is on high for 20% of the time, etc., and the heat is
> supposed to radiate throughout the food. But I saw a 1,300 watt
> Panasonic microwave that advertised a "true" high, medium, and low.
> If true, this would be a big step up in my estimation.
Funny, I just saw a Panasonic like that yesterday at Costco, a 1.6 CF unit
(deep sucker). It claimed to use "inverter power".
I'm aware that traditionally microwaves use "pulse width modulation", in
which one cycles the power on and off and changes the duty cycle (ratio of
on time to off time) to achieve fractional power settings.
I'm still trying to find a suitably technical description of the inverter
technology. I'm guessing it's a programmable "switcher" power supply that
provides high-efficiency low-voltage DC to the tube.
|