Where do I start? My office at work is about 10 feet x 10 feet and surrounded with electrical panels, fuse boxes, transformers, ect. It has had more and more electrical boxes installed around it over the past 10 years as the company has grown. It's a machine shop with 30 or so CNC mills and lathes, so there's a lot of juice running through there. This last upgrade has landed an 800 lb transformer on top of my office (maybe 8 feet above my head when seated), but thankfully it hasn't been powered up yet.
For shits and giggles I grabbed the old gauss meter from the inspection office and had a go. The needle moved, but not knowing what I was looking at or if the thing was even working correctly, I returned it and didn't think a lot of it. Then I got to reading more on EMFs and health risks, and bought myself a cheap 'ghost hunter' 0- 5 milligauss detector. I tried it on guitars and amps and stuff around the house, and it worked as it should. Kinda cool, actually, but nothing alarming in any way.
Monday I took it to work and turned it on in my office. The meter went nuts. Pinned the needle EVERYWHERE in there. Not just near panels or lights or computers - everywhere. So I went around the shop. In NO other location could that result be repeated. (I spent Monday afternoon relocating to another part of the shop.)
I'm not sure what 5 milligauss is, or if this meter is even very accurate, but my info search claims more than 2.5 milligauss can be harmful. I'm a little freaked out, but there's so much conflicting opinion on the subject that I don't really know what the hell to believe.
You guys know everything. I need some direction here. I've spent the last 10 years, 10 hours a day, 4 days a week in that office. I've attributed some health weirdnesses to getting old, but damn, I don't know.
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Where do I start? My office at work is about 10 feet x 10 feet and surrounded with electrical panels, fuse boxes, transformers, ect. It has had more and more electrical boxes installed around it over the past 10 years as the company has grown. It's a machine shop with 30 or so CNC mills and lathes, so there's a lot of juice running through there. This last upgrade has landed an 800 lb transformer on top of my office (maybe 8 feet above my head when seated), but thankfully it hasn't been powered up yet.
For shits and giggles I grabbed the old gauss meter from the inspection office and had a go. The needle moved, but not knowing what I was looking at or if the thing was even working correctly, I returned it and didn't think a lot of it. Then I got to reading more on EMFs and health risks, and bought myself a cheap 'ghost hunter' 0- 5 milligauss detector. I tried it on guitars and amps and stuff around the house, and it worked as it should. Kinda cool, actually, but nothing alarming in any way.
Monday I took it to work and turned it on in my office. The meter went nuts. Pinned the needle EVERYWHERE in there. Not just near panels or lights or computers - everywhere. So I went around the shop. In NO other location could that result be repeated. (I spent Monday afternoon relocating to another part of the shop.)
I'm not sure what 5 milligauss is, or if this meter is even very accurate, but my info search claims more than 2.5 milligauss can be harmful. I'm a little freaked out, but there's so much conflicting opinion on the subject that I don't really know what the hell to believe.
You guys know everything. I need some direction here. I've spent the last 10 years, 10 hours a day, 4 days a week in that office. I've attributed some health weirdnesses to getting old, but damn, I don't know.
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