Clearly, as your bog standard microwave oven can only handle at most one kilowatt; the ‘oven’ needed a bit of an upgrade. A 16 kW water-cooled magnetron. Why not over-drive it to 20 kW for fun?

While we now think of a magnetron as a microwave oven component, they are important in many microwave devices including radar. They are interesting because all they can do is oscillate.

Learn More › A microwave ... it to the magnetron, ensuring that it receives the roughly 4,000 volts needed to generate microwaves. If the capacitor is faulty, the oven won’t heat up, and ...