After about 40 yrs of competitive distance running, the doctors say my heart rate has gotten too low. They are recommending I receive a pacemaker. Yes, you can exercise your way into a heart abnormality
I started reading on the āpacemaker vs cutting/welding equipmentā topic expecting the worst. Looks like 10-15 yrs ago, the advice was 100% against welding after install. Now, there are circumstances where it is okay, within limitations. Not going into that because I donāt want to get bashed for doling out internet medical advice. Suffice to say, my case is one where I may be able to continue to use my equipment.
To the point. I know on this site the EMI countermeasures Iāve seem discussed for cutter vs controller are: increased distance; no coiling of cables; computer electrical isolation. All pretty easy to see potential benefits.
During my reading, two different welding threads I saw recommendation to braid the work and electrode leads over as much of their length as possible. Assuming interference-based cancellation is the goal, I donāt know enough about the frequency and waveform shapes of plasma cutter and welder outputs to know if this seems like a potential EMI reduction strategy or not.
Anyone with knowledge they want to share us in on this idea? Should we add this approach to the advice given when people are having EMI issues with their LS equipment?
here is some of the recommends for personal EMI protection from this.
āHow Do I Minimize EMF Exposure?
Failure to follow these instructions will increase EMF:
ļ· cut with the lowest current setting necessary for the application and quality of the cut.
ļ· never coil a torch cable or work lead around your body.
ļ· do not place your body between the torch cable and work lead.
ļ· route cables together on the same side of your body.
ļ· route the torch cable and work lead close together. if possible, secure them together with tape or cable ties.
ļ· connect the work cable to the workpiece as close to the cutting zone as practical.
ļ· keep the cutting power source and cables as far away from you as practical.ā
I had link a larger document about this in the past but i cant find it now.
Just took my mom in for a standard procedure a couple weeks ago. She came out a week later with a pacemaker!!
They also told her to say away from strong magnetsā¦ A friend in the medical field said they have a strong magnet they use to drain the batteries in pacemakers when the person is done with them.
The idea is that those fields cancel each other out. If I use a clamp on amp meter and clamp over either the work lead or the electrode lead ( likely have to do this from the inside of the machine) I will get get a reading of -45amps of +45amp (=/- if cutting a 45amps). If I could clamp both the electrode lead and the work lead in the clamp on amp meter it would read nothing.
A clamp on amp meter works when a magnetic field created by current (amp) in the wire and meter reads this (probably through induced voltage like a transformer ) which is converted to a amperage reading. but with both wires in the clamp the fields cancel and read as zero on the meter.
I think its all hype. Now a tig welder I could believe. Who in their right mind wraps work or torch cables around thier body. Again I believe that some high frequency EMI does exsist it not dangerous in normal circumstances.
I know a pace maker was brought up.
Now that would be a different story.
An installed pace maker will put you out of the metal fab business. Periodā¦ I know you are looking for other answer.
A good friend of mine is a cardiologist and he says welding, microwaves or any other EMI emitting devices.
