Recently a friend of mine who lives in a modest home in a typical suburban street came home to find that an electrical smart meter had been installed at his rented residence along with every other dwelling in that street and more than likely in the entire suburb. So why would he need to be concerned? THEY wouldn’t have put in anything that could cause him any harm surely. If these SMART meters were a concern to anyone’s health in anyway, surely, they wouldn’t be permitted.
Remembering that advertising professionals, back in the good old days, were pushing the health benefits of starting your child drinking carbonated cola as soon as possible to give them a “head start” in life, or that 9 out of 10 doctors smoked Camel cigarettes, ie. “From the 1930s to the 1950s, advertising’s most powerful phrase— “doctors recommend”—was paired with the world’s deadliest consumer product. Cigarettes weren’t seen as dangerous then … “, and SMART meters aren’t advised to be a health risk at this time, but, he decided to check into the details himself.
A simple internet search, “Are smart meters safe?”, will advise a resounding … “Yes”, and further advise that, “Smart meters are manufactured and installed according to Australian Standards. All smart meters must comply with the electromagnetic exposure limits developed by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)”. BUT … he decided to by an Electromagnetic Radiation Tester (Pic 2) and test things out for himself.
To say the least, the readings, not just at around the “Smart Meter” but in every room in his home was a bit of an eye opener. I was amazed, not at the readings in his home, but I was amazed that I had not thought to have checked our home for electromagnet radiation. So, … I immediately raised my right hand, smacked myself over the head in disgust of my tardiness and ordered an Electromagnetic Radiation Tester for myself. I decided to get the same model so as to be able to do comparisons with his unit. If fact the following week I took my unit to his place and also borrowed his to check to make sure that my new unit wasn’t faulty because of the alarming readings I was getting.
The units check 1. electromagnetic fields known as an E-field, and 2. magnetic fields known as H-fields.
What is an E field and H-field?
An E- field is an electric field and its strength is measured in units of volts per meter (V/m). The electromagnetic radiation tester sends out a danger signal when this field exceeds 40 volts per meter (V/m).
An H- field, is a magnetic field and its strength is measured in amperes per meter (A/m), or on this device its measured as a unit Tesla (uT)
Power/strength is the time rate of the transfer of energy which also applies to waves. The Electromagnetic Radiation Tester would alert of danger when it registered an E-field above 40v/m or a H- field above 0.4ut.
Without going into the details of the relation between E and H, which is E=ε0μ0H. C, knowing when the meter turns red and starts bleeping “Danger Will Robinson”, one may safely assume that it would be in the best interests of your health, and the health of others around you, to stop whatever is causing the Tester to go berserk, or, failing that, leave the area ASAP.
When the testing units are blue and showing 0 and 0.00, (pic 3) then all is good, but when the device turns red and bleeps, either for detecting an unsafe E-field or unsafe H-field reading, a smart chicken, having bought themselves a meter, would act accordingly.
I’m not going to tell you what levels of electromagnetic radiation is safe or what’s not, you can make your own mind up about that. What I will do is tell you what this measuring device told us about our homes and even the greater environment and then in Part 2, I’ll tell you what we did to reduce our family’s exposure.
The first piece of necessary information would be that both units gave the same readings under the same circumstances. Therefore, we can assume that they are both functional. We tested both the E-field and H-field around electrical devices within the home and found that all devices, according to the Tester, had unsafe levels of radiation and that the closer you were to a device, especially when it was running, ie a refrigerator, or charging, ie a mobile phone, the higher the unsafe levels were recorded on the Tester.
Batteries in a “Off Grid Stand Alone System” gave off very high levels of both E and H fields the closer you got to them and like other devices, the further the Tester was from any device, the lower the field, and in fact the danger levels dropped off quite quickly the further you distanced yourself from the electrical device.
As shown (pic 4) even being close to leads powering devices or even supplying electricity to breakout boxes gave quite large E-field readings.
Other devices gave higher H-field readings with lower E-field readings so there were different readings depending on the type and size of the tested electrical device and the distance away from the electrical devices found in most homes.
My phone was just below the safe H-field with no E-field readings most of the time when not in use, … HOWEVER it spun out to 1667 v/m on E-field and 1.91 u/T on the H-field when I made a phone call. That’s over forty times the advised E-field safe limit and nearly five times over the safe H-field.
Having a new toy, I had my Radiation Tester with me whilst I was at a home that registered alarmingly high fields radiating from LED lights in the lounge room. The readings were so strong that even sitting on the couch and chairs within the room, a goodly distance from the LED source, exposure was well above any safe limit.
I turned the device off so that any discussion was not compromised by the noise from the Tester. To my surprise, the owners of the home were not the slightest bit interested in the warning given by the meter and found the alert merely annoying and easily remedied simply by me turning the device off.
I, on the other hand, took notice of the information alerted to me by the device and made some changes in and around our family home.
In Part 2 you will see it’s not just being within close proximity to household electrical devices that should be a concern but certain places in the greater environment puts people at risk.
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John Lynn