Re: I just zapped my wristwatch. (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:00:34 -0700
From: Ken or Doris Herrick <kchdlh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: I just zapped my wristwatch. (fwd)

Who thinks of a wristwatch?  I do, now...

KCH

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> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:34:07 -0700
> From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: I just zapped my wristwatch. (fwd)
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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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> 	Have to ask why you put that watch (or any other solid-state device) near a coil in the first place?
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> Ed
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