Re: I just zapped my wristwatch. (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:48:07 -0700
From: Ken or Doris Herrick <kchdlh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: I just zapped my wristwatch. (fwd)

But wait, wait...now I am ASTONISHED!  All yesterday afternoon & up 
until 10 p.m. or so when I went to bed, the watch was blanked out.  I'd 
even opened it, took the battery out & then put it back, whereupon the 
display momentarily showed all-characters but then went blank again.  
But having left it sitting overnight, it's now fully recovered!

There must be, within the circuitry, some CMOS floating gates that built 
up a charge from the EMF and then leaked that off overnight.  Too lucky, 
I am!  I'm not going to chance that any more, for sure!

KCH

Tesla list wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:40:27 -0700
> From: Ken or Doris Herrick <kchdlh@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: I just zapped my wristwatch.
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> Yes, I just zapped my wristwatch.  And at very low coil-power, so 
> others: beware!  I have (had) one of those LaCrosse radio-controlled 
> watches.  No spark to it; just, apparently, the EM field from close 
> proximity to the secondary coil while debugging.  Of necessity the watch 
> has an all-plastic case (to allow the radio reception).  It would appear 
> that the coil's 150 KHz "radio" signal was just too much for it.  Now 
> the display is blank & nothing, it seems, will bring it back.
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> Sadly,
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> Ken Herrick
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