Re: Pacemaker

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Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gerryreynolds-at-earthlink-dot-net>

It would also seem prudent to have a safety person present to shut off the
TC if a problem became debilitating.

Gerry

 > Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>
 >
 > Hi Ton,
 >
 > There have been many discussion on this.  You can go to:
 >
 > http://www.pupman-dot-com/htsearch.html
 >
 > And search on "pacemakers".
 >
 > In general, the spark gap puts out the most mean RF "noise" so don't get
 > too close to that.  The newer pacemakers with defibrillators in them are
 > reported to be more sensitive to external RF.  Defibrillator pacemakers
 > have been reported to be fired by Tesla coils.  But these pacemakers are
 > also reported to be fired by store security scanners and such.  However,
 > those problems were with older models.  I would think any modern pacemaker
 > will be pretty tough in regards to radiated RF.
 >
 > If it were me, I would ask the doctor about the information he has on the
 > particular type and contact the manufacturer.  If you can find the "right
 > person" in the design department, they can tell you everything to watch
out
 > for.
 >
 > Modern pacemakers also record "odd events" and shut down functions if
there
 > seems to be a problem.  This has helped a lot to "fix" RF susceptibility
of
 > pacemakers since real world data is collected and feed back to the
 > designers.  I would let your doctor know and be sure to monitor if the
 > pacemaker is having problems.
 >
 > Pacemakers are pretty common and maybe other coilers here on the list have
 > them and have studied this subject in detail??
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 >          Terry