"James Sweet" wrote in message
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"wave" wave@waving wrote in message ...
Have spent over 2 hours trying to find out if most or all microwaves do
true
variable power output as opposed to the traditional cycling on & off to
attain different power levels, panasonic call this inverter technology,
they
make it sound like they are the only ones that do it, have not been able
to
determine if this is so yet, I searched webpages as well as the
newsgroup
archives but frustratingly I could not find the answer to what I would
have
thought would be a common question.



The vast majority of microwaves cycle the magnetron, only the inverter
type
can do true variable power. I don't know if only Panasonic does this, but
one way to tell would be the weight, a conventional transformer power
supply
will be considerably heavier, and the ovens will be cheaper as well.


Thanks, I have very little experience with microwaves but I have used a
panasonic with inverter technology and a much older microwave and the
panasonic was definitely better at cooking evenly etc..., don't know if this
was to do with the inverter technology or some other improvement in modern
microwaves but it makes some sense to me that the inverter technology would
give better cooking, a pity it is not standard among all microwaves then.