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Bass in car?
- by pinkdiamonds
- 2013-03-12 08:03:06
- Interferences
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My husband just got a new car and it has a huge Bass taking up half the trunk space if not more of a old cadillac so it's huge! He things its cool but a couple of times that he has turned it in I felt a little funny. Sometimes I get paranoid about my health so I'm not sure if I'm worried about seething or nothing. To me it feels like it just vibrates my chest so much that I don't like it but I'm not sure if its I'm scared its affecting the pacemaker or that it actually is. He never keeps it on long enough for me to really tell what's going on but I have heard that people with pacemakers should stay away from a stereo bass. I do plan on asking the dr and until then hubby won't be using it anymore.
If it does interfere what would I feel like or how would I know? If its off but still in the trunk is that too close to the pacemaker even when off? Any answers to questions I forgot to ask of the topic are welcomed.
Thank you.
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Don, you got me.
by ElectricFrank - 2013-03-13 03:03:14
I had this image of a large fish flopping around in the front seat whacking the pacer and upsetting the rate response. I knew exactly what the problem was.
By the way back in 2008 I bought a Jeep which a previous owner had outfitted with a large woofer behind the rear seat. I had no need for it so I disconnected it and the amplifier and carried it into the house. A few days later I realized that I had held the heavy beast against my body for at least a minute or two. So I held one of my screwdrivers next to in and the magnet nearly pulled it out of my hand. Interesting with my 100% pacing for AV block that I didn't notice anything unusual.
Don, I like the idea of stuffing the wife in the trunk especially if she is the Woofer type.
Now I've done it,
frank
Frank - you let me down!!!!!
by donr - 2013-03-13 09:03:39
I'd expected your comment about having your paranoids removed.
Always love that one.
Don
You mean
by ElectricFrank - 2013-03-14 02:03:15
I had my paranoids removed with my tonsils as a child?
So now they want me to buy a Droid.
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Frank: Gotta love it...
by donr - 2013-03-14 09:03:32
Yeah, we cannot escape the "'oids" of any kind.
I have a Droid, also, & it's a PITA. It's smarter than me & embarrasses me all the time. What really rots my socks is that I cannot find a manual anywhere that tells how to use it at the basic level. The on line tutorials are just a bit less than worthless. I don't even have my teen granddaughters around to help me out.
Don
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by donr - 2013-03-13 01:03:19
I first thought you meant a bass fish, as in largemouth bass. That would be one humongous fish if it nearly fills the trunk of a vintage Caddy!
Not to worry about that speaker in the trunk. A Caddy is a pretty long car, so the speaker is quite a ways from your PM. Yes, it will have a fairly large permanent magnet in it, but magnetic fields drop off fairly rapidly, so you are safe as long as he does not stuff you into the trunk. Even that is a not to worry situation, because when husbands stuff wives into trunks, they are usually beyond pain anyway. (That's a bit of humor noir.)
I'd say that you are more than a bit paranoid about this issue, so relax. put in your earplugs & let hubby enjoy his speaker. Makes no difference whether the speaker is on or off, the magnet is a permanent one, so its fields will not vary with the position of the switch.
Now, as to the vibration in the chest - that is a possibility, but is NOT because of the magnet. It's because hubby turns the bass up so high that the resultant sound is intense enough that it may resonate in the body cavity, giving you that funny feeling. I've gone to a church w/ a BIG air driven pipe organ. There were certain low frequency pipes that made the entire building resonate & your body would feel the vibration - making you feel pretty weird. Ever blow across the open top of a GLASS Coke bottle? You can make the bottle resonate that way. There are cavities in the body that can do the same thing when stimulated by a strong bass speaker - like the lungs, stomach, open volumes in the intestines (for some of us, our heads), so don't be alarmed by that feeling.
What would you feel if it were the magnet? The same way you feel when the Cardio downloads the data in the PM when you go in for a check up. The magnet puts your PM into the "Test" mode, which does strange things to the heart, but the feeling goes away as soon as you move out of the magnet's range of influence.
Don