ATSman
ATSman
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Occupation
- Electrical Engineer/ Electrical Testing & Controls
I found this article interesting except for the part (go to the stetzerelectric.com website) about how these filters could better your health.
http://www.electricalpollution.com/documents/Havas&Stetzer_WHO.pdf
I welcome any comments.
Dirty Electricity is a term not readily used to describe what I call poor power quality and can range from total harmonic distortion (THD) on electrical distribution systems to EM radiation from cell phone towers, radio and tv towers, microwave tower, etc.
The debate on whether EM has health effects has been going on for decades and there has really not been any concrete evidence to prove it.
The article was particularly interesting to me since we encounter excessive THD at customer's sites that cause problems with equipment operation ( monitor, display jitter on workstations, mainframe malfunction (data corruption) in data centers) transformers and motors overheating, and have to find the root cause and offer solutions in terms of rewiring, filtering, etc.
I went to the website that builds these "filters" and think it is a total scam in leading people to believe that if you plug 20 of these into your house it will improve your overall health.
So in a sense (like many scams) it uses some scientific fact then tailors it to selling a product that does not do what it claims. To prove my point, hook up a scope to any house outlet and look at the sine wave. It will show little distortion as opposed to an office bldg or manufacturing plant, hospital with a high concentration of PCs (switching power supplies, non-linear loads.)
http://www.electricalpollution.com/documents/Havas&Stetzer_WHO.pdf
I welcome any comments.
Dirty Electricity is a term not readily used to describe what I call poor power quality and can range from total harmonic distortion (THD) on electrical distribution systems to EM radiation from cell phone towers, radio and tv towers, microwave tower, etc.
The debate on whether EM has health effects has been going on for decades and there has really not been any concrete evidence to prove it.
The article was particularly interesting to me since we encounter excessive THD at customer's sites that cause problems with equipment operation ( monitor, display jitter on workstations, mainframe malfunction (data corruption) in data centers) transformers and motors overheating, and have to find the root cause and offer solutions in terms of rewiring, filtering, etc.
I went to the website that builds these "filters" and think it is a total scam in leading people to believe that if you plug 20 of these into your house it will improve your overall health.
So in a sense (like many scams) it uses some scientific fact then tailors it to selling a product that does not do what it claims. To prove my point, hook up a scope to any house outlet and look at the sine wave. It will show little distortion as opposed to an office bldg or manufacturing plant, hospital with a high concentration of PCs (switching power supplies, non-linear loads.)
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