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Test Microwave for Radiation Leakage
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#62This thing is totally insane. Instructions are not clear at all and the risk that someone bakes a phone in a MWO or doesn't any other harmful thing is rather high. Please remove this post.
Agree that the warning: note: do not turn your microwave on for ANY portion of this test might not be visible or clear enough. I think OP should consider updating the instructions and set as a first step: 1. Unplug the microwave.
>Unplug the microwave.
Pretty sure you need the earth though right?
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#63This was one of my first app ideas about 10 years ago. Unfortunately my microwave had a mechanical timer such that if you opened the door when it was running the microwaving would stop, and on closing again it would resume. Unbeknown to me the door had been so opened, and on closing, with my HTC Desire inside, it duely resumed.
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#64This thing is totally insane. Instructions are not clear at all and the risk that someone bakes a phone in a MWO or doesn't any other harmful thing is rather high. Please remove this post.
I strongly disagree. If you are idiot enough to microwave your own phone, that's on you. This post is fine, and interesting.
Calling people idiots for making mistakes is about the most boring thing I can imagine. I agree it shouldn’t be deleted, and that it’s interesting. But everyone flubs it from time to time, even people who like to think they’re above that.
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#65This thing is totally insane. Instructions are not clear at all and the risk that someone bakes a phone in a MWO or doesn't any other harmful thing is rather high. Please remove this post.
You need a basic level of competence to be allowed in the kitchen. - That is where most domestic accidents happen. Funny how kitchen stuff was thought to be women's work once.
I have read this several times over and have no idea how you could mean it which isn’t sexist af.
Edit: okay maybe I can imagine you’re saying that women have been competent in the kitchen and men [/other gender identifying people?] have demonstrated not being as competent. I’m really trying to stretch credulity to read this in good faith.
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#66Neat idea, though it's not a definitive test. In my experience a microwave oven cavity provides about 40dB attenuation, and it's possible to maintain an LTE connection with that sort of path loss.
Hint: If you're ever doing radio work in the field and need an instant Faraday cage a microwave oven is a good candidate. Turn the power off first to reduce the risk of accidentally irradiating your device, but leave it plugged in to get an earth connection to the shield. (This is how I know an LTE connection can be maintained in a microwave oven.)
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#67related question... I have a bluetooth headset (aftershokz aeropex), when my microwave is running the audio from my phone seems to get interrupted. think it also happens if just the phone is near the microwave. should I be concerned ?
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#68I needed to test behavior of an app on an actual iphone with flaky cellular and thought a microwave would be a great place to simulate this. It wasn't. The cellular connection was unaffected. Wrapping the phone in aluminum foil killed the signal enough though.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
You load the web page on your phone, put it in to the microwave and close the door. The microwave should be a Faraday cage preventing microwave radiation getting through. Now the phone/web page cannot contact the internet. The chart stops updating. Unless there's a leak, then the chart continues updating while the phone is in the microwave. Then open the door and look if it could/couldn't keep pinging the server whil…
This doesn't answer GP's question. How does it work? Why does my workstation connected to my router via ethernet cable show wildly varying results? What is the unit of Y axis?
Seconds (judging by the source code), and I assume the variance comes from the time it takes the server to respond + javascript delays. It's interesting to see the significant variation and an almost 100 ms difference between what my browser reports and what the chart reports. (The server responses were pretty consistent).
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#70This was one of my first app ideas about 10 years ago. Unfortunately my microwave had a mechanical timer such that if you opened the door when it was running the microwaving would stop, and on closing again it would resume. Unbeknown to me the door had been so opened, and on closing, with my HTC Desire inside, it duely resumed.
thats an awful feature