Is operating more than 1 microwave oven in same kitchen safe?

Wow... I suggest that you find someone who (A) you trust, and (B) who can reasonably be expected to know something about the subject, and have them explain to you the many things wrong with that.

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I guess you don't know this well kept secret but "microwaves" ARE radio waves. They are just at a much higher frequency then what your radio and TV set use. For the same reason you don't want to sit inside a microwave oven you don't want to stand in front of a radar antenna. Both use "microwave" frequencies and both are absorbed by whatever hunk of meat is in their path. The absorbed energy dissipates in the meat and turns to heat. It was this sort of accident around radar that gave someone the idea of making a microwave oven.

And mere exposure to microwaves won't kill you. If you travel by plane or are ever near an airport (or a police radar gun for that matter) you get exposed to microwaves. It is only if you get VERY close to the transmitting antenna that you have a problem. The more powerful the transmitter, the farther away "close" is.

-- Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts:

"What, sir, is the use of militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. . . Whenever Government means to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise a standing army upon its ruins." -- Debate, U.S. House of Representatives, August 17, 1789

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AZGuy

There is ZERO chance that five magnetrons (or even two) would be operating at the same frequency, much less the same phase. If they're not on the same frequency, they cannot operate coherently, and if they're not coherent, their powers cannot "add".

Isaac

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Isaac Wingfield

I think Mythbusters botched that one. Had they properly terminated and combined the magnetrons there should have been some degree of injection lock and therefore, coherence. I have toyed with this idea for an EME (moonbounce) experiment. I don't recall what they used to measure power with, but a thermal power meter would have shown some additive power regadless of "coherence".

The RFI-EMI Guy

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**THE-RFI-EMI-GUY**

RF can burn you. If you held on to a metal antenna that was pushing 100W through it on VHF, you'd feel it...

Granted a microwave is pushing far less and at the opposite end of the practical RF band, but this falls in to the same category about people who are worried they'll get brain cancer from using cell phones. We won't know for another 20 years on that one.

Are there any reports of people getting cancer from microwaves? I don't recall any. They've been around for 15-20 years mainstream.

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Mark

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