I bought my first microwave oven just after getting married in 1972
We had people point o it and ask if it cleaned the dishes very well or we
had to rinse them first.

I used microwave ovens at work in 1968. They were a few years old then.

Things sure change.

And yeah, my microwave knocks my cordless phone for aloop now. All these
years and I have never noticed it before until we built a home with a huge
great room and we are all together for RFI living...LOL

All these years they have been trying to get us to put in split recepticals
support 120/240 circuits and now we step back with the GFCI ones at 20 amps.
This junk is all supplier driven, not logic driven. The craziest thing was
the split recepticals had to be leap frogged on the circuit ie. 1,3 & 5
recepticals could be on the same circuit and 2,4&6 on your counter could be
the same circuit. Hoping you would plug the kettle in beside the toaster and
never blow a breaker.

We just need a phone system on our recepticals that reads out "line in use"



"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message
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1. assume the local inspectors know what the heck is going on...
2. assume the local / state supports the CEC on that...
3. assume the user is placing the microwave on the same spot the
non-cook drew up the outlets in the kitchen or the builder in a kit-bash
design.

I bought a house built in 1970 - our first - and we didn't have microwaves
then from what I know. In 1980 we bought a house and bought a large
microwave.
No issue. We bought a house in 1986 that was 10 years old - e.g. 76 - and
it
broke breakers. The house in 1987 was brand new and it broke breakers.

Those last two were young enough, but were both in California! Wonder....

We finally lost that microwave two years ago and got a switcher model.

That sucker is nice - it has bells and whistles but drives us batty.

When we start it up, users of wireless internet are knocked off the air.

I have to get my scope in here, but it appears to be the switcher noise
is excessive.

Martin