pace alert

I was wondering if a pace alert could be important to own for a retired 65 year old like me.


2 Comments

Save your money

by Theknotguy - 2014-01-06 11:01:58

Unless you're going to a power plant where there are strong magnetic fields, work as a radar tech, or work around industrial magnets they aren't worth the money.

If you read the posts on this site you'll see there are people with PM's getting along just fine in normal living situations.

Most of the warnings about PM's are CYA warnings imposed by lawyers and have nothing to do with reality. We've got people who are amateur radio operators, electricians, and welders. Others have run chain saws, gone through RF fields (Under TV transmitter towers), worked with WiFi (computer techs), handled magnets, and operated cell phones without any problems. I've held rare earth magnets on my chest (unknowingly) and even have put a heating pad (unthinkingly) on top of my PM with no problem.

If you do walk into a magnetic field the PM will go into test mode. You'll feel it, and it should be enough warning for you to get out of the field.

If you are around magnetic fields and know it, usually the six inch rule comes into play. I held magnets on my chest - they were closures on my wife's fancy purse - about six inches away from the PM - no effects. Would I put them directly on the PM - no.

Otherwise most magnets and magnetic fields you run into during normal life will have no effects on the PM.

Hope this helps.

Theknotguy

Money wasted

by manaman - 2014-01-07 05:01:37

Don't waste the money! Get drunk, surprise the spouse with flower's/candy! Your pacer is has it's own alert system and it's just impossible to destroy it,period.
If ever a pacer stood the test of abuse and mis-treatment it had to be my first two. One lasted 7 years and the second 10 years 3 months (just got my third one on Dec.11,2013.
I worked in the carbide industry with a pace for 16 years as a maintenance tech and was exposed daily to over 100 grinding machines with magnetic holding devise, 4 electric sintering furnaces,6 coating furnaces, electro-polishers, 60 foot long washer with ultrasonic cleaning devises and 5 huge magnets and a huge switch gear rood. I've been on my back under machines with 75 pound objects paying on my chest, I've had safety harneses while working a heights worry hell out of me and apply undue pressures to pacer. You name it I've probably had it happen!
Final advise is this. You Will know when you are exposed!!!!! What happens is quite simple, it WILL not kill you!!! It will make you feel BAD but it will just say this: Oh well,stupid is awake, I guess I'll go into TEST MODE until he/she gets away from this stuff and then I'll go back to work again!! Cecil

You know you're wired when...

You always have something close to your heart.

Member Quotes

The pacer systems are really very reliable. The main problem is the incompetent programming of them. If yours is working well for you, get on with life and enjoy it. You probably are more at risk of problems with a valve job than the pacer.