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[–] 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Panasonic owns the patent for an inverter microwave that can actually do 50% power.

With inverters being common in solar installations and electric cars, it would seem that someone else could just put that part in a microwave, but fortunately the patent prevents that.

It's nice to know that although I can't buy the model of microwave that I want with the features I want, at least a single company can prevent everyone else's progress and even make a tiny bit of extra profit at the same time.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

    But my microwave does this?

    This is real data from my LG microwave just now. The first peak is at 100% power, the second peak is 30% power, the last three peaks are 10% power.

    You can see that under 30% it has to cycle the inverter on and off like old microwaves, but still it's way better than doing that at 100%.

    I love my inverter microwave, I feel like I'm living in the future. Bought this thing like 4 years ago 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Panasonic does sometimes licence the patent to other companies. I would love an inverter microwave, but they aren't made with the other features I want.

    What app is that?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Fair enough.

    It's the emporia app, I installed whole home monitoring in my breaker panel. It's occasionally useful, expensive, but I've had it long enough to make it worth it in my mind 🤷‍♂️

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