/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.2042914]

hello

I have a 1200 watt microwave in my kitchen. I have gas heating in my house. But, recently no gas heating because of a payment dispute with the company (they won't send gas if I don't pay their rate. I try to negotiate). I say that's fine I have other heat. Microwaves are powerful and heat quickly. How can I modify my microwave to heat my room? Do I take door off, add mirrors, add water, fan, etc?

[Anonymous No.2042928]

>>2042914
you could just pay your gas bill, cancer treatment costs a lot more

[Anonymous No.2042931]

microwave potatoes and put them in your pockets

[Anonymous No.2042935]

>>2042914

[Anonymous No.2042939]

>>2042914
Place your head inside the microwave and turn it in for about 90 seconds at a time. You’ll stop feeling cold quickly.

This actually might be the dumbest question I’ve seen on this board for a while. What kind of retard uses a microwave to heat their house.

[Anonymous No.2042950]

>>2042928
>>2042939

electric is much cheaper. Gas rates are very high and they turned off gas because I didn't pay bills before. They won't turn on unless I pay old bills. I don't see why I can't use electric

[Anonymous No.2042960]

>>2042914
The worst part is, this could be a legit post with how awful gas companies are raping texans right now.

[Anonymous No.2042961]

This is an incredibly stupid idea. It's highly inefficient so the amount of electricity you're going to use to accomplish it is probably more than just heating with the gas at whatever rate they're charging.

[Anonymous No.2042969]

>>2042914
Kreosan heater.

[Anonymous No.2043003]

>>2042969

I don't have one

>>2042961

Is there a way to make it more efficient? I know that heating up lead with batteries can do very well. Not that I will do that but it's just an example

[Anonymous No.2043008]

>>2042914
If you prefer electric heaters maybe you should buy a cheat bathroom heater instead. They are dirt cheap and heat up the whole room in minutes.

[Anonymous No.2043013]

>>2043008
*cheap i mean these portable fan heaters they are like 20-40$

[Anonymous No.2043015]

>>2042914
My furnace went out and I use electric heater and my oat to heat my home to 72 degrees went from $70 a month to $250 a month electric bill to heat the home to 64 degrees with the electric heaters. Don't do it OP.

[Anonymous No.2043017]

Legit electrical engineer here - any electrical appliance consuming 1200 watts will heat just as well as any modification to your 1200 watt microwave. Just run a bunch of computers or turn on a space heater instead of being an idiot.

[Anonymous No.2043018]

>>2042931
This is the only sensible solution.

[Bepis !n/ZnkB9jUw No.2043024]

>>2043015
OP is a meme but this seems to be the case. Almost everywhere with natural gas, it’s much cheaper than trying to heat with electricity. The people in TX who lost gas but still had power in the ice storm will be paying $$$.

I miss having gas to my house. Electric stove is meh, and I tried to use the electric heater once and the house filled with smoke because of dust and shit on the heating element.

[Anonymous No.2043025]

>>2043008

Seems like a big waste of money when I already have an electric heater in my kitchen. It does the same thing. That's the point of DIY

[Anonymous No.2043026]

>>2042950
That is how utilities work you fucking mongoloid. Also I don't think there is anywhere in the world that electric resistance heating is going to be cheaper than gas. Even if you could use the 1200 watts that microwave draws at 100% efficiency it would barely warm a room. I honestly can't belive that you are smart enough to use whatever semen encrusted device you have used to make this post.

[Anonymous No.2043028]

>>2043026

dumbass, I am thinking of doing energy transfer from electric to otherwise by steam or water or whateve. water is free for me - so why can't i put a bowl of water in microwave and heat it up to steam and blow it through house for very little? water costs nothing to me

[Anonymous No.2043042]

>>2043028
Either this is bait or you are actually retarded. I honestly can't tell at this point. If you are heating your house by microwaving bowls of water and blowing air over it and you think the low price of water is what makes it a great economic solution then there is no help for you. If you run 1200 watts of anything electric enough to warm even a single room it's going to cost you $400/mo. If you take into consideration the inefficiency of heating water and then blowing air over it, which is actually mostly going to result in evaporative cooling, you would probably have a hard time raising the temperature of one room more than a couple degrees. That is not to mention anything about the duty cycle of a residential microwave (I'll give you a hint: it's nowhere near 100%) and that you would have to factor in the cost of 10 microwaves a month to replace the ones you have ruined. It all adds up to become the dumbest post I have ever seen, and I've been here a long fucking time. If you do decide to do it post lots of pictures though. I think it would be funny to watch you struggle to survive with tepid bowls of water surrounding you all because you were too poor to pay your gas bill.

[Anonymous No.2043044]

>>2043042

okay forget the water, I am just saying, I don't know. I know that microwaves get super hot. What about using tin foil or mirrors to focus heat from microwave? it really just needs to be my bedroom

[Anonymous No.2043049]

>>2043028
the proper way to warm up your bedroom is to put on a coat and a blanket you stupid white nigger.
>NOOOOO I absolutely NEED to spend thousands of watts of energy on warming up my room
I bet you don't just put on more clothes because nothing except a bedsheet will fit your obese body, Americunt.

[Anonymous No.2043079]

>>2042950
>electric is much cheaper

For heating? No, it's not.

/thread

[Anonymous No.2043081]

>>2042939
I don't think OP's mad /diy/ skills are enough to figure out how to turn on the microwave with his head inside.

[Anonymous No.2043083]

Someone save this thread for autistic threadposting
How old are you OP?

[Anonymous No.2043084]

>>2042914
You can't heat up air with microwaves you dum dum, the wavelength is specifically picked to not interact with air.
Forget about heating up your room with microwaves. They are supposed to head up food fast, so they can only run for a limited amount of time, like a few minutes. Running it for half an hour might burn the circuits.
>Do I take door off
The oven is supposed to send microwaves to the oven's heating room, aka the microwave proof space behind the door. I don't know if you realized this, but you're 70% water. If those microwaves get to you, they're gonna heat you up (read: burn you). They are also gonna fuck up every single bit of electronic equipment that's in the same room as them (including the oven itself)

[Anonymous No.2043091]

>>2043044
>I know that microwaves get super hot
Ok, I'm not even the other guy and I can still tell that you have no idea how microwaves work. It's not a fucking radiator so that it gets "muh super hot". A microwave oven is a photon cannon, like a flashlight. Microwaves are the same as light, just with less energy and with the ability to interact with water (they interact with more stuff, but all you need to know about is water). They don't "get hot".
>What about using tin foil or mirrors to focus heat from microwave
Go fucking read on what heat is and how microwaves work before you post dumb shit or do even dumber shit that might leave you with permanent damage.

[Anonymous No.2043118]

>>2042914
To heat your home, override door shutoff switch, stick pener in microwave and set timer to 100 minutes. Good luck you faggot.

[Anonymous No.2043160]

buy a cheap el. heater

[Anonymous No.2043257]

OP here sorry I fell asleep

[Anonymous No.2043258]

>>2043084

Okay but what if I do it with high humidity air? Won't it heat up the water in the air? I couldn't run the shower for a bit and steam my house up so that it's foggy

[Anonymous No.2043261]

>>2043091

So what if I direct microwave at big water bowl? Will it not heat house?

[Anonymous No.2043316]

Get a pillowcase and fill it with raw rice, then fold over the top and stick in microwave, then hug it.

[Anonymous No.2043317]

>>2043026
There might be some places where some non fossil fuel is in abundance at certain off peak times where you reach a point where resistive heating could be cheaper. Like near a dam or a place with heavy solar. Depends how much the wholesale savings at off-peak are passed onto the customer there.

For sure there's no place yet where resistive wins out overall

[Anonymous No.2043320]

>>2043316

does this work?

[Anonymous No.2043325]

>>2043044
Jesus fucking christ. Honestly I don't understand how people like you survive.
No, it's a fucking dumb idea. You can't use tin foil or mirrors. You are going to blind yourself by cooking your fucking eyeballs with intense microwave radiation.
Go buy a 1,500W electric heater for $15 and enjoy the $300 electric bill. Microwaves are not space heaters and they cannot easily be converted into one no matter how much you want to believe.

>>2043320
Yes it does. Dry beans work as well. You can survive extremely cold temps like this if you still have power, but it's going to be uncomfortable still. And if you have electric to heat up a bag of rice then just use a heating pad lmao. Continuous, safe, personal heat without fucking around.

[Anonymous No.2043327]

>>2043325

Not OP but bullshit. He could create a sort-of nuclear energy-like setup by using pencil graphite with circulating water for coolant in heavy-duty plastic containers. But he would need to make sure the coolant circulates to stop the graphite from critical burning.

[Anonymous No.2043334]

>>2043327
lmao this poster is 100% scientifically correct. You should try it OP. You can get radioactive Americium from your smoke detector to make it even more efficient too. Just drop it in the water. Jewish gas company scientists want you to believe heat is expensive or complicated but nuclear energy is actually easy as fuck with basic household items.

[Anonymous No.2043335]

...
just buy an electric heater retard.

[Anonymous No.2043339]

>>2043334

Not NUCLEAR, I just meant heating up graphite using a power source, and using a coolant to moderate the reaction.

[Anonymous No.2043349]

>>2042914

You buy or scrounge multiple small electric heaters (a microwave is not remotely sufficient) to connect to DIFFERENT branch circuits so you do not overload a single circuit.

>>2043025

I get you want to DIY but part of DIY is not having a compulsion to do stupid shit that doesn't work for the sake of DIY. Just because something "seems" (said seeming is due to an easily cured lack of knowledge) it should work does not mean it does work.

The most vital part of DIY is understanding how systems work not how you prefer to believe they should work.

[Anonymous No.2043351]

>>2043339
The graphite is pointless. Just circulating water through the microwave and into a radiator on the outside would work since water loves to absorb 2.4GHz radiation.
However this is stupidly complicated/expensive and less efficient than just using an electric resistance heater.

[Anonymous No.2043450]

Get a fat girl friend to keep you warm, or two

[Anonymous No.2043475]

>>2043351
>and less efficient
The goal here is heating. Both scenarios result in 100% of the electrical energy used being converted into heat. Monetary efficiency is different though, given the additional investment of pump, radiator, etc.

[Anonymous No.2043502]

can we please stop bumping this bate thread?

OP go buy a small shitty electric heater from the store, they are like $10

[Anonymous No.2043504]

>>2043475
No. You get some noise, and microwave radiation which escape the envelope of your home immediately. It's like 99.5% efficient but still less than the 100% offered by an electric radiator.

[Anonymous No.2043512]

>>2043504

Not if you put up some barriers to focus the microwave radiation into where you want it.

[Anonymous No.2043516]

>>2043049
OP is obviously not a native English speaker

[Anonymous No.2043517]

>>2043044
Don't listen to the haters OP. All you need to do is put aluminum foil in the microwave and turn it on. It is a highly efficient heating method

[Anonymous No.2044538]

Did OP die?

[Anonymous No.2044557]

>>2042931
To take this to the next level, microwave a bunch of potatoes and make a potato sauna.

[Anonymous No.2044562]

>>2042931
>A sane answer for an insane OP