The ion cyclotron heating on TEXTOR has now reached the megajoule level. Pulses of 1 MW lasting 1 s have been achieved in a predominantly mode‐conversion regime in a (H)‐D plasma yielding, after machine conditioning by means of carbonization, discharges characterized by: stationarity of all plasma parameters, lilttle if no impurity increases, and strong loop voltage decreases resulting in a total power reaching already six times the remaining ohmic input power. The global energy confinement is lower and the power deposition profile broader than in the OH phase. The heating efficiency is found to be comparable to that of neutral beam heating experiments in the so‐called L‐mode.