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I am fascinated by CRT televisions, their ray gun, and their electric death coil. They seem like something an evil genius would dream up.

I would not dream of disassembling one, but I am fascinated by them.
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@ziphi They're pretty neat! one of the last holdouts of vacuum tubes in consumer electronics; now all that's left are microwaves.
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@Felthry There’s a not insignificant number of people who like the sound of vacuum tube amplifiers for guitars over solid state amps, too, as I understand it.
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@ziphi Yeah, but that's not really a mass market consumer thing, that's audiophile and "i just think they're cool" retro-enthusiast stuff
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@ziphi pretty sure most of the vacuum tubes used in those are new old stock; there are a couple startups that make new vacuum tubes but they're very expensive
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@Felthry Yeah, definitely. Aesthetic pickiness is far different from mass production for general consumers. I did not know microwaves had them!
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@ziphi The actual microwaves used for heating stuff in a microwave oven are produced by a type of vacuum tube called a cavity magnetron. It's by far the cheapest and easiest way to output that much RF power.
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@ziphi Other consumer devices that use microwaves for communication, like bluetooth and wifi, produce their microwaves through other, cheaper, smaller means that work just fine at the tiny power levels those use, but don't scale up to 1000 watts very well
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