The alleged effects of unbalanced voltage on a person

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I know of a situation where a person alleges extreme sensitivity to electrical fields. This person claims that the existing NM-wired sytem in the house creates a reddening of the skin with burning sensations, headaches, loss of equilibrium and severe body aches.

The person alleges that turning circuits off and sitting in a darkened house is the only relief short of installing a Balanced Voltage System. This person claims that a Balanced Voltage System would enable the opportunity to live a more normal life and promote healing.

Has anyone ever heard of this condition? Is it real and not imagined? I know a fellow not to far from here who also claims sensitivity.

What is a BVS in this regard and would it help? Thanks.:-?:)
 
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What is a BVS in this regard and would it help? Thanks.:-?:)
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I think the person is nuts and my best guess is a 'balanced voltage system would be like the ones used in recording studios. Basically a 120 volt transformer that has a grounded midpoint so you end up with 60 volts to ground from both legs and 120 between them.

I am just a hack but if anything is causing electrical fields I believe it would be unbalanced current and not the voltage system.
 
If you haven't already, check out Nikola Tesla. I will try to find a YouTube post, or will post a link if I can find. "Supposedly" Tesla had a unique sensitivity to EMF's, among other things.
I believe one story was that without him looking one could put a object in a bowl filled with water, he could be in some other room and could tell by a sense of taste he got on his tounge if the item was magnetic or not, and what exactly that metal was. Lots of good Tesla stories out there. Maybe we've got another Tesla on our hands.
BTW Iwire, I thought all electrical currents create an EMF.
 
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iwire said:
I Basically a 120 volt transformer that has a grounded midpoint so you end up with 60 volts to ground from both legs and 120 between them.
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Very good Bob, one of my favorite obscure articles.

647.5 Three-Phase Systems.
Where 3-phase power is supplied, a separately derived 6-phase ?wye? system with 60 volts to ground installed under this article shall be configured as three separately derived 120-volt single-phase systems having a combined total of no more than six disconnects.
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Almost as cool as article 650.

I am just a hack
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Don't let this get you down brother, just keep trying.:smile:
 
wbalsam1 said:
I know of a situation where a person alleges extreme sensitivity to electrical fields. This person claims that the existing NM-wired sytem in the house creates a reddening of the skin with burning sensations, headaches, loss of equilibrium and severe body aches.

The person alleges...
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Do they buy tin foil wholesale?

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I believe Tesla was a highly functional psychotic. It was his wandering and demented mind that derived his inspirations for all the great stuff he did. There was really nothing normal about him.

As for the person in the opening post, I would lean towards some sort of paranoia and anxiety disorder. Is it completely impossible what they claim is true... NO. Is it likely what they claim is true... NO.
 
bphgravity said:
I believe Tesla was a highly functional psychotic. It was his wandering and demented mind that derived his inspirations for all the great stuff he did. There was really nothing normal about him.

As for the person in the opening post, I would lean towards some sort of paranoia and anxiety disorder. Is it completely impossible what they claim is true... NO. Is it likely what they claim is true... NO.
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I tend to agree with those posters who have suggested "mental condition". But let me play devil's advocate for the sake of learning. Could this alleged condition be similar to humans like what cows "seem" to experience when standing under very high voltage transmission lines? You know, where the EMF is large enough around the conductors that it actually reaches the animals and affects them..? I'm thinking about humans around pool areas and cows around barns and how equipotential planes help limit voltage effects.
Just curious if this should quickly be dismissed as a "mental illness" or if there's any substance to it at all. Thanks.:)
 
wbalsam1 said:
Could this alleged condition be similar to humans like what cows "seem" to experience when standing under very high voltage transmission lines?
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I have never heard anything about cows being effected simply by being under power lines.

I have heard a lot about cows being directly effected by voltage gradients in the earth caused by utility company grounding practices.
 
bphgravity said:
I believe Tesla was a highly functional psychotic. It was his wandering and demented mind that derived his inspirations for all the great stuff he did. There was really nothing normal about him.
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But I think he was pretty much on target when he said,
?If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.?
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Roger
 
I take a different approach. Sell them whatever it is they want to buy. Balanced power system? Whatever that is, get some and install it.
 
iwire said:
I have never heard anything about cows being effected simply by being under power lines.

I have heard a lot about cows being directly effected by voltage gradients in the earth caused by utility company grounding practices.
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When one really delves into it there doesn't seem to be a solid argument supporting damage. See below:

Telecommniatons Health & Safety - High-Tension Transmission-Line Exposure of Pregnant Dairy Heifers
Lin, J.C.
Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE
Volume 49, Issue 4, Aug. 2007 Page(s):202 - 204
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MAP.2007.4385642
Summary:The question of whether effects of 735 kV AC high-tension power-transmission-line exposure are associated with the electric-field (EF) or magnetic-field (MF) component remains uncertain, because the observed effects of electric fields and magnetic fields are inconsistent. The discordant results may have been confounded by differences in the age, production status, and reproduction condition of the cattle used, and the various light regimes employed in different experiments. Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that exposure to only electric fields did not cause any change in body weight or weekly weight gain. However, animals increased in body weight and weekly body-weight gain when compared to control animals in similar experiments with lactating pregnant cows exposed to magnetic fields and electromagnetic fields. The consistency between body-weight gains of cattle exposed to magnetic fields and electromagnetic fields suggests a possible causal relationship between the magnetic-field exposure and the animal's weight gain.
 
mdshunk said:
I take a different approach. Sell them whatever it is they want to buy. Balanced power system? Whatever that is, get some and install it.
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That sounds like a good idea but if they are the only ones that can feel if the balanced power system works how are you going to prove it when they say that it didn't help? Sounds like a lot more research is required.:smile:
 
SEO said:
That sounds like a good idea but if they are the only ones that can feel if the balanced power system works how are you going to prove it when they say that it didn't help? Sounds like a lot more research is required.:smile:
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Don't sell them "help". Sell them the balanced power system they want.
 
a freind of a friend of mine wired a house for an engineer who made him run the wires in a particular fashion so that the emf was reduced to as small as possible. its easy to be a skeptic, however I prefer to keep an open mind, since, as with many other medical issuses, there is no prevaiiling data to prove or disprove that emfs have benefit or detriment to long term health in humans or animals (If I am wrong and there are definitive studies with definitive results on this please correct me).
 
SEO said:
I'd want to add a lot of disclaimers to my contract if I couldn't prove that it worked and they were the only ones that could.
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No, you're thinking backwards. If someone wants you to hang a light, but what they really want is ample light for reading, what are you going to do? Make them sign a paper that the light might not give good reading light? I dare say no. You're going to hang the light and write up a bill. If someone wants a balanced power system, whatever the heck that is, you're going to put one in. If it doesn't do what they hoped, that's their problem. People spend billions of dollars every year on things they hope will improve the health that don't pan out.
 
This reminds me of a customer that we have. He was convinced that EMF is causing his health problems. We had to go around and correct all the neutral loops in his house (old K&T wiring) among other problems. He carried a gauss meter around and he would check the level of EMF after we were done fixing all the problems.
 
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