Thread: Inductive Limit Switch problem
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07-04-2020 #1
My standrad reply is "I've spent 40 years working in high RF fields and it nev, nev, nev, never did me any harm!" On one site I worked at you couldn't turn the flourescent lights off in the transmitter building. They wouldn't strike on their own but once lit they wouldn't go out until the maintenance break . They flickered in time to the program so you could set your watch by the lights: the time pips have a very obvious pattern.
High power wireless has been around for a while now and the only known risk from such non-ionising radiation is the heating effect. VERY rare that anybody gets exposed to that kind of power, only antenna workers in practice. Contact with the conductors can give you an electric shock as well, but that isn't unique to RF.
Some people claim to have been harmed by mobile phone use. A coleague of mine had a tumour the size of a tenis ball taken out of his head some years ago and it was on the side that he had a phone clamped to for half of the day, but there's no evidence that was the cause.
Ionising radiation is the dangerous stuff but that's way above even the highest frequencies used for communications.An optimist says the glass is half full, a pessimist says the glass is half empty, an engineer says you're using the wrong sized glass.
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