The Mysterious Blinking Mattress Pad
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Comments (27)Beyond emergency supplies, clothing and paper. I have two boxes. In one are all of my kid's baby pictures. In the other is a handmade crocheted tablecloth of my grandmother's and a crystal dish that belonged to my other grandmother. Everything else? Whatever. A tiny bit of history for me. Both boxes are in the bottom of my closet. I know exactly where they are. Btw, I always drive around with a flat of bottled water in the back of my van. Winter or summer, there is always water and a blanket in there. Forget dire emergencies, in the even of breaking down in the snow or when there is a heat index of 105, we won't ever be without water....See Morecraftsman 1/2 hp garage door opener mystery
Comments (1)The rapid flashing of that light usually indicates it is receiving a signal of some kind not necessarily connected to a door opener. Have you added anything new to your garage or home that plugs in? Even something as strange as a fish tank heater can cause interference. Do you have an old door opener remote laying around that isn't used? When something interferes it can block the receiver so your normal remotes won't work. This is what sounds like and you are going to have to do some sleuthing....See Moregrounding mattress pad
Comments (31)I suspect that Ron N had his tongue in his cheek when he posted that "ad." People don't seem to learn how to evaluate allegedly scientific claims critically, either at school or at home. I read a while back about a schoolteacher who got into trouble for teaching the students to be skeptical about advertising. Apparently some parent called this "Unamerican" or some such nonsense. Incredible. To ZPP: High level RF is a known hazard, but we're talking about the steeplejacks who climb radio and television transmission towers with 50 kW of radiated energy. The engineers at the stations are supposed to crank down the power while the steeplejacks are on the tower, but some don't. Occupational hazard, I guess. Also, if I'm not mistaken, the microwave oven was invented by a man who watched birds fall out of the sky when they flew in front of a huge radar antenna. It's pretty well established that high level, high frequency ionizing radiation isn't too healthy for humans. However, it's not at all clear that these hazards scale to RF levels in the microwatt range. What's more, EMF is a different critter. As used by the FUDdies (FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt), it's synonymous with ELF (extremely low frequency) fields. These are handy for FUDding because of their ubiquity ("it's all around you in the walls of your house!"). However, the frequency of mains AC is several orders of magnitude below the ionizing frequencies that are known to cause harm. (By the way, the code requirement to keep circuit conductors together ensures that fields cancel each other out in the walls of your house.) I remember about 10-20 years ago when the FUD was over electric blankets. "You spend 8 hours a night under one!" was the mantra then. Even though there was never any conclusive evidence that anyone had been harmed by an electric blanket, the electric blanket manufacturers acted to kill the debate. They just revised the design so that any EMF would cancel out, as it does in your home wiring. All they did was juxtapose internal wires in which the current flow was opposite. Still, it seems as if every few years somebody comes up with yet another health hazard attributable to EMF, and the web buzzes with this "studies prove" business. The "entrepreneurs" immediately leap into to fray with their overpriced "shields" and other "EMF protection" gadgets. The tabloid-style websites get all breathless about the grave dangers of EMF. Oddly, the web doesn't seem to make as much noise about the followup studies that often at least partially refute the findings. The truth is that there has not yet been any really conclusive evidence that EMF causes harm to humans at any level normally encountered. If you want to be safe from radiation, don't climb broadcasting towers, and don't stand in front of satellite uplinks and radar antennas. If you talk on your cellular phone as much as the average high school kid - hours a day - you might consider using a headset to get the RF away from your head. But low frequency EMF? IMO, worrying about EMF is more likely to harm you than the EMFs are....See MoreThe Case of the Blinking Mattress Pad
Comments (5)Good to know I'm not the only one, Weedmeister. The power strip has a switch, but I haven't used it because my alarm clock is plugged into it. I did some moving things around last night, and was able to plug the bed warmer directly into the outlet. So far so good!...See MoreElmer J Fudd
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