How a MICROWAVE GUN Works

This was the nerdiest and best thing I have ever seen on YouTube! Great humour and amazing knowledge. Thanks for the great entertainment

The gov't doesn't care, as long as you don't connect it to the flux capacitor in your Delorean...

You're hilarious and wicked informative, guy. I can't believe I'm only hearing about you now. Will share and favorite. Keep up the good work!

1:30 It's also important to remember that you shouldn always discharge the capacitor even if the microwave is not plugged in.

Nice! I had my waveguide (a tin can with both sides cut off) flush with the magnetron not knowing why it wasn't effective. You are very informative and helpful!

Neat videos, keep up the good work! I have a feeling ill be referencing allot of your content in the near future when i have more free time to work on new projects ;)

I love your work mate. Stick at it . You have a real flair for explaning it to those of us whom are interested.

Important additional bit of high voltage danger, the capacitor, as all do, may maintain a very large charge potential, even long after unplugged. They must be shorted to discharge. Capacitors discharge their full load all at once, thus are extremely Dangerous! Unless one knows what they are doing they should avoid messing with anything that contains capacitors, as even much smaller ones than shown in this vid can be deadly!

I love your legal disclaimer. My ex-wife worked for a contractor, specializing in non-lethal weaponry. They made a much larger one, to form barriers and stuff.

Every family needs at least one Dayton somewhere on the family tree to make life interesting. Then there's always something cool going on down in the lab, and the opportunity to learn how & why things actually work. Plus, the math behind the physics fine tunes the engineering to get the actual desired results. When I was a teenager, I was so fascinated by high school physics that I constructed a cloud chamber with dry ice to look at atomic particles emitted by my dad's radium dial painted watch. But my niece's boyfriend recently built a cloud chamber that is cooled by an array of Peltier crystals - much, much better! Technology is always evolving and it's great to hang out with people who want to understand it all by experimenting with whatever comes to hand. So, here's a toast to Dayton and the spirit of experimental science & engineering. And thanks for sharing dude!

Even an unplugged microwave or TV, the capacitor is still hot until it's discharged. You can electrocute yourself easier with an unplugged microwave or TV, because most people have no idea what the capacitor does, it holds a charge until discharged, unplugging it won't discharge the capacitor. Thanks for the video, I have a few microwaves that I am going to tear down this weekend. Appreciate your help and expertise.

The cautions on the capacitor is real. Having experienced an electrolytic discharging into my hand while working on a TV set in high school electronics class…ouch. This was a very entertaining video, well crafted and fun! Great work!

@ 5:01 😂😂😂 I now love this guy!!! The fact he doesn't edit out his mistakes and shows us what happens even in immense pain! SUBBED!

"Did I mention this is a gun? Don't go around shooting a bunch of stuff with it." (ONE SECOND LATER) "OK, let's shoot some stuff with it!" Well done! Great videos!!

You should build a pulse forming network and hit those magnetrons with a nice fast rise time pulse about 8-10kv then you will get some real power out of them! ;)

hi, I would like to build a microwave machine to disinfest wooden floors and furniture from woodworms. Using the components of 2 microwave ovens, can you advise me on the shape, position and distance to observe to build the electromagnetic bell? I would use the original 6.4cm magnetron guides but how should I assemble the emitters? placed side by side like your gun or as I see on the net arranged in parallel? A thousand thanks

Out of the blue I got this in my recommendation, and I love the good work, thanks!

Dude, awesome videos. really interesting and entertaining.

So, if you wanted a microwave gun with the range to knock a drone out of the sky at reasonable distance, wouldn't you want to go with a microwave laser, commonly called a MASER (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation)? I would love to see THAT in action!

I'm impressed. You do some crazy things just for the fun of it..like me. Best of all you never loose safety out of eyesight. keep the videos coming..subscribed for sure!