Well Jeff, You said it for me. I was thinking exactly the same thing - blanket is too darn close!
Bil ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeffrey A. Madore <k...@uconect.net> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 8:18 PM Subject: Re: CS>Electric Blanket / O.T. > > > Jeff Gilman wrote: > > > The difference between the electro-magnetic flux you are exposed to between > > transformers and electric motors vs. an electric blanket is that the blanket > > is in very close contact with your body. How many motors or transformers to > > you sleep with? > > i.e. have VERY close to your body for many hours on end? Electromatic > > fields decrease INversely with the distance. That is, move the electrical > > object twice as far away and the field strength drops 4 X. Also, by design > > electric blankets are designed to cover your entire body (LARGE surface area > > in close contact). A hair dryer would > > not be as close, nor used as long, nor have anything appoaching the surface > > area of an electric blanket. > > Well...I guess I was thinking of duty cycle as well as flux density. > > My blanket is set at about 1.5 on a scale of 0 - 9. So, it clicks on for about 30 > seconds every 5 minutes. > > Transformers and motors are magnetic flux generators. Take an electric guitar > and approach the amp...major hum due to transformer's magnetic flux. A single > conducting wire produces a fraction of the flux. This flux is also current dependent. > The blanket has two electrically seperate sides...each draws less than 400ma. > My computer produces various fields that wipe out the receiver in my ham radio > rig, 4' away. It's everywhere. > > Since the current of the blanket is small, and the exposure time very intermittant, > I wonder if the actual harm (if it's indeed harmful) isn't minimal vs being cold. The > wires looping back upon themselves also may provide a degree of field cancellation. > > I have a king sized water bed with a 400 watt heater. I put several blankets over > the matress and was able to shut off the heater. I mostly did it to save electricity. > Then I put the e-blanket on top, with another blanket on top of that. The e-blanket > runs very little, as the blanket over it keeps the heat in. Sure beats maintaining > temp of all of that water 24hr per day. > > If I could find the slightest reason, reasonable anecdotal information, scientific > data, etc; to believe that I would benifit from staying away from AC fields, I'd > run it on DC. But then I'd probably read something about that being bad for me too. > Hey, if my wife didn't behave herself, I could just switch her to the south pole!!! > > Last night I read about bed springs sucking the energy out of you!!! ...and ground > water, hundreds of feet below grade, being major bad! I must be in a bad spot > cuz my well is only 12 ft deep...dug it myself. I guess the challenge is sorting > science from woga-woga. > > Jeff > > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net> >
