Re: I just zapped my wristwatch. (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:47:29 +0200
From: Finn Hammer <f-h@xxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: I just zapped my wristwatch. (fwd)

KCH,

Could the battery be flat to the point that a moments rest made it 
recover enough potential to start the watch momentarily, a nights rest 
enough oomph to run for a couple of days?

Cheers, Finn Hammer

Tesla list skrev:
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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
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> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Sadly,
>>
>> Ken Herrick
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