Re: Experience with odd effects. -Reply

TOM MCCOY ( (no email) )
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 01:31:49 -0600

Jim,
I have felt the same thing from different TV's and computer monitors =
at different times. This is the Static/Magnetic/Electron pulsed field =
emanating from the TV/MOnitor at start up (the pulse or shock). From those =
that I have felt the most profound effect were those same ones that I =
could measure the EM field some distance away from the monitor/tv. I used =
a little device that measures/checks bulbs in a light socket for series =
christmas tree lights. It's suppose to tell you which bulb is burnt out. I =
think the use I found to use it is alot better. I picked the thing up at =
a Hardware store that was going out of business for a quarter. I see that =
Mennards or Fleet Farm had them for a dollar or two.=20
On your second item I once hooked up a long wire to a amplifier and =
picked up a AM radio station loud and clear. It amazed the heck out of me =
since the wire was going to go to a Commodore 64 computer for the sound, =
the monitor didn't have sound. The cable was coiled up at the time also.
That third thing didn't faze me a bit about the couple who came home =
and found all of the Electronics in their home fried. I once came home =
from work and found every thing electronic that was plugged in fried in my =
house. Most of them just had the FUSE blown. What caused my blowout was =
that a city work crew had come and hooked up a electric welder to the =
water pipe in front of the house. They did this so that they could thaw =
out the neighbors water which had frozen that winter. One of the workmen, =
they came back the next day, told me that this is the standard way for =
them to thaw out someone's water pipe. I told my friend this and he told =
me that he knew a guy who's house started on fire this way. Evidently one =
of the electronic devices in the house exploded from the surge and started =
on fire. The guy from the city says that he always seems to find that the =
water pipes have a charge on them from either a bad ground plane or bad =
wiring in someone house. The bad wiring can be in any house in a 5 block =
radius.=20
I have since learned the hardway to put my most expensive electronic =
gadgets on a surge protecter and to unplug my computer when I see the city =
work crews in the area digging in the winter.=20

tom m

>>> "Jim Shaffer, Jr." <jshaffer@csrlink.net> 12/28/98 06:53pm >>>

First, I used to have an old NTSC computer monitor. Whenever I turned it
on, I would feel a wave of heat, or something, wash over me. It wasn't
static electricity, although this monitor generated a lot of that too.

Second, I was trying to tune in a weak TV station with a set of rabbit =
ears.
I had an FM radio with a whip antenna on in the same room. I discovered
that as I turned the fine-tuning knob on the TV, I would come to a =
position
where the radio station I was listening to would disappear! If I changed
the tuning on the radio slightly, it would come back.

The most dramatic thing I've heard of happened to a couple of co-workers.
They live near the top of a hill in open country, with only a few other
houses on the road. One day they returned home to find that every
electronic item in their house had been fried as if the power line had =
been
hit by lightning, except that everyone was sure that there had been no
lightning that day. There had been a power outage for some reason, which
explains the surge, but nobody knows why the surge only hit their house.

--"Withdraw in disgust is not the same thing as apathy."  --R.E.M.





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