Electrical Transformers

I have been out of work since I recieved my pacemaker in February. Hoping to get back soon, but I am concerned with electrical transformers that we have in back corridors and in the numerous stores at the mall I work at. I sometimes am required to work next to them getting meter reads, resetting breakers etc. any idea if these will cause me problems. I know I can't go into the electrical substations with the big transformers, but what about these? I am pretty much totally dependent on my pm, I don't want to get by one, have problems and not be able to get away from it. Any advice would be appreciated.

4 Comments

Pacemaker Interference

by J.B. - 2011-07-17 04:07:38

They will be no problem so long as your pacemaker is at least 12 inches from them. In the event you do run into a problem from one of them, it will feel like an irregular heart beat and you will notice it, so step back a couple of feet from the source and your heart beat will return to normal in a few seconds. No harm will be done to you or the pacemaker.

EMI Readings?

by Cthulhu - 2011-07-18 01:07:29

Fishfighter / aljake526

You do understand that it is your EMPLOYER'S responsibility to provide you with a safe work environment right?

Emplore them to do a proper survey of EMI levels around your work site. Compare those to your ICD/PM tollerances.

I'm quickly learning that these devices are treated like mideval crystal by most people because they do not understand them. I am trying to learn what my ICD tollerance is and to not let it affect my lifestyle, or ability to earn income.

Let us know how it turns out.

Same boat

by fishfighter - 2011-07-18 08:07:39

I worked inside a powerplant. I'm unable to return to work due to the high voltage lines (500KV) and 620 MW genrators which are less then 30' from were I worked at for 12 hours at a time.

It just sucks!

Osun pace alert helped me out

by kathykat11 - 2011-07-19 09:07:29

When I went back to work I went back with a pace alert mini. I had noticed that I was having slowing when I was around where lots of things were plugged in at home. I am probably totally out of compliance for how many things you can have plugged in to one socket, but since I was having trouble at home I figured I'd better pick upsomething to warn me quickly at work where I don't have time to fool around with seeing how far I have to be before I feel better like I do at home. The pace alert lights up and lets off a little whine that I was unable to hear at work because of the noise so I was glad of the light. The bosses have borrowed it to map off caution zones for pacers at work. There are a few of us there, and said they will be getting their own because new Equipment is installed all the time and I don't work 24/7 in fact I have not worked since December, so I guess their pace alert is working more than I am. It does work, I could have done without it but it is more convenient to know that there is nothing wrong with me that moving a few feet won't fix.
Hope this helps,
K

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