Re: I just zapped my wristwatch. (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:05:46 +0800
From: Peter Terren <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: I just zapped my wristwatch.

I too have zapped a watch in TC service, using a hotstick near my 4 inch 
coil. It was a cheap plastic one from a drug company.
My solution?  I don't use a watch now as part of a mid-life crisis thing I 
guess.  I figure I have enough women telling me constantly I am late (wife, 
secretary, nurses etc) that that must be the time constantly. Obviously my 
watch only read hours and minutes but not "I am late" which apparently is 
the important thing.
I also stopped wearing ties after 20 years and don't have a car but those 
are other stories....

Peter
http://tesladownunder.com

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:48:07 -0700
> From: Ken or Doris Herrick <kchdlh@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: I just zapped my wristwatch. (fwd)
>
> But wait, wait...now I am ASTONISHED!  All yesterday afternoon & up
> until 10 p.m. or so when I went to bed, the watch was blanked out.  I'd
> even opened it, took the battery out & then put it back, whereupon the
> display momentarily showed all-characters but then went blank again.
> But having left it sitting overnight, it's now fully recovered!
>
> There must be, within the circuitry, some CMOS floating gates that built
> up a charge from the EMF and then leaked that off overnight.  Too lucky,
> I am!  I'm not going to chance that any more, for sure!
>
> KCH
>
> Tesla list wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:40:27 -0700
>> From: Ken or Doris Herrick <kchdlh@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: Tesla List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: I just zapped my wristwatch.
>>
>> Yes, I just zapped my wristwatch.  And at very low coil-power, so
>> others: beware!  I have (had) one of those LaCrosse radio-controlled
>> watches.  No spark to it; just, apparently, the EM field from close
>> proximity to the secondary coil while debugging.  Of necessity the watch
>> has an all-plastic case (to allow the radio reception).  It would appear
>> that the coil's 150 KHz "radio" signal was just too much for it.  Now
>> the display is blank & nothing, it seems, will bring it back.
>>
>> Sadly,
>>
>> Ken Herrick