Re: I just zapped my wristwatch. (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:06:20 -0700
From: Ken or Doris Herrick <kchdlh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: I just zapped my wristwatch. (fwd)

It's nice to have slaves but since I don't, I'll likely substitute my 
wind-up alarm clock (made in Romania, 2 jewels, utterly impervious).

KCH

Tesla list wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:05:46 +0800
> From: Peter Terren <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: I just zapped my wristwatch.
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> I too have zapped a watch in TC service, using a hotstick near my 4 inch 
> coil. It was a cheap plastic one from a drug company.
> My solution?  I don't use a watch now as part of a mid-life crisis thing I 
> guess.  I figure I have enough women telling me constantly I am late (wife, 
> secretary, nurses etc) that that must be the time constantly. Obviously my 
> watch only read hours and minutes but not "I am late" which apparently is 
> the important thing.
> I also stopped wearing ties after 20 years and don't have a car but those 
> are other stories....
>
> Peter
> http://tesladownunder.com
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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)
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>> 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!
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>> 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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