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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Subject: Re: Tell me about electric blankets
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- Date: 13 Dec 92 19:35:48 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.193548.13750@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- References: <1992Dec7.221421.2000@sdc.com> <1gfetaINN2ct@symbi1.symbiosis.ahp.com>
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- In article <1gfetaINN2ct@symbi1.symbiosis.ahp.com> teds@symbiosis.ahp.com writes:
- >kenk@sdc.com (Ken Konecki) writes:
- >
- >>What's the latest report on EM fields and your health, especially with
- >>respect to electric blankets?
- >
- >I too, have wondered about this. I suppose that an enterprising person
- >could make a box that would operate an electric blanket from Direct Current.
- >No AC EM field would be generated, just DC. The blankets I've seen
- >would work fine on DC, but perhaps not all of them.
- >Perhaps using DC only for some parts of a home would be beneficial.
- >Whether there would be any health benefits or not, I don't know.
-
- Your DC blanket will, of course, generate a magnetic field -- just not an
- electric one. Whether or not this is better or worse from the health
- standpoint is, as you point out, a good question.
-
- Also, if the field is strong enough, you've now effectively made yourself a
- combination electro-magnet/heater blanket. If you have large quantities of
- change if your pockets, that blanket might just not want to let go... :-)
- (Just kidding... the fields aren't anywhere near that big)
-
- People have recently been laying out the wiring in the electric blankets in
- a manner that will help to cancel out the EM field. Sounds good to me.
-
- ---Joel Kolstad
-