Power supply for magnetron and the like loads

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A flyback-type high-frequency, high-voltage power supply for energizing a self-rectifying load such as a magnetron microwave power generator for a microwave oven and the like. A switching device is connected in series with a primary winding of a transformer to provide pulses of energy to a self-resonant circuit at the transformer secondary winding. The self-resonant circuit includes the electrical capacitance of the load connected across the transformer secondary winding. The load conducts only for unipolarity excitation exceeding a minimum magnitude. A clamping diode is positioned in parallel with the switching device, at the transformer primary winding, to protect the switching device …