cell phone

The guide for my new cellphone states that it should be kept 6 inches from my pacemaker. Has anyone had any complications from cellphone use?

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Not a problem

by Theknotguy - 2015-04-29 08:04:45

A lot of the warnings you see are put there because of lawyer warnings. i.e. we'll put the warning out in case there is the one in several million chance that something bad might happen. The other reason is to limit the number of frivolous lawsuits by people claiming they were hurt when they really aren't. So warnings about garage door openers, tv remotes, car remotes, store security, and cell phones can regularly be ignored.

We have at least one member who says she is sensitive to electronics and is affected by cell phones but that is the only one I've seen.

I put a posting on this forum where a person took apart and old PM. One comment in the video was about a reed switch in the PM that was only activated by a large magnet. Activating the reed switch turned on the "radio" of the PM and allowed it to communicate with the PM reading device. Once the magnet was taken away the "radio" was off. I'm sure the newer PM's have a similar arrangement.

So that means it would be like a radio you have at home. No matter how powerful the signal the radio isn't going to function until it is turned on. For those of us who lived during the CB (Citizens Band) radio era, it is possible to get bleed over but it would take and unusually large and powerful signal to make that happen. I'm talking in the several million volt range - how many times has your radio turned on during a thunder storm with lightning? Same for your PM - you'd have to have an unusually large signal to activate it in an unusual way.

I regularly go by two TV towers broadcasting at a sixty mile range. No problem. We have members on the forum who do TIG welding and who are regularly exposed to higher levels of electrical interference and RFI with no problems. And we have one member who works in a power plant and is around voltages in the 4000 range with no problems. So a cell phone doesn't come anywhere near the power output described above.

So unless you are one of those extremely rare people who are sensitive to electronics you can ignore the warnings on things used in a typical Canadian, UK, and US household. Go about your normal life and enjoy the life our PM's have given us.

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