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| | Electrically controllable magnetron power supply - Patent 4672159 |
 | | In a power-line-operated electronic inverter-type power supply for the magnetron in a microwave oven, the unfiltered pulsed DC output of a full-wave rectifier is applied to a bridge inverter, the output of which is a 30 kHz squarewave voltage pulse-amplitude-modulated at 120 Hz. |
 | | Hence, the instantaneous absolute magnitude of the direct current provided to the anode of the magnetron is proportional to that of the unfiltered low-magnitude DC voltage supplied to the inverter; which, in turn, implies that the instantaneous magnitude of the current drawn from the power line is proportional to that of the power line voltage. |
 | | However, during the brief period before the magnetron's cathode reaches a point of substantial thermionic emission, voltage limiting is provided by Varistor V. The voltage present across C and therefore across terminals CT1 and CT2, is provided to a voltage-doubling rectifier/filter means consisting of Ra, Rb, Ca and Cb. |
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