Help with Prius 2008, EMF and mech. watches..... (please?)

If a mechanical watch is under such a heavy Gauss field as to disrupt its funciton, the same field will also disrupte *your* function.

There is nothing in a Prius that emits such a heavy Gauss field, you would need to find a specialized military or industrial research lab

 

Hi Time...,

Last time I was reading how to make escapements, the idea was to keep them demagnetized.

Measurements on the Prius have showed it has less cockpit magnetic fields than many cars with open framed air-handling blower motors...

 

Consider that the voltage and current draw from the Prius' traction battery (I believe is 220v and amps ranging from 0 to max 80) is similar to that associated with 220 volt major appliances (commercial washing machines, tankless water heaters, welders, pottery kilns). No-one worries about standing next to those.

And, as mentioned, you want your mechnical watches to be "de"magnetized . . .

 

Any magnetic field that is strong enough to affect your watches would most likely be strong enough to erase your credit cards, I would assume.

 

The controversy is by uninformed people trying to prove a non-valid point. There are NO large or unusual magnetic or EMF fields generated by a Prius! Period. The measurements I have seen posted were the earth's magnetic field.

The Prius is designed to be efficient. Leaking magnetic fields or EMF would be a loss of energy. That was not allowed in the design. Even the battery cable from the rear to the front of the car is shielded in steel for protection, but that also keeps any small fields contained.

I suspect your watches were loosing time before you got the Prius. You are just watching (pun intended) closer now.

 

Cool, we must have time dilation technology built into the Prius.

 

I have a $23 digital Timex that I had for maybe 8 years or more. It loses maybe a half minute every couple of months.

But it did that before I got my Prius

As they used to say, my Timex "takes a licking, but keeps on ticking!"

 

Any magnetic field with a strong enough gradient to bugger up a mechanical watch will probably bugger up your health too. Especially if you are implanted with a cardiac pacing device

I wonder how a mechanical watch would do in this lab?

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Correct. Part of the problem is that a Gauss meter that is cheaper than $2,500 is very notoriously inaccurate. You are measuring the B field, and getting a precise meter is a costly adventure

Even very precise Gauss meters, the kind used to determine certain calibration and standards testing, can give the uninformed layperson very shocking results. That is, a reading in one area that is 100 times higher than another area. But in context to *what*

The purported health effects of various electromagnetic fields can be found here

WHO | What are electromagnetic fields?

What is the name and model of the meter you purchased? What are the reported readings?

Now, as an experiment, I want you to use that meter around your house, near a microwave oven when heating up a cup of coffee, at the office, when your cell phone or Blackberry is on, under a power line, and, most importantly, in another conventional vehicle

The readings may surprise you, even scare you. Some suggest to avoid >2 milliGauss. Medically, for things like MRI machines, 5 Gauss is considered the maximum safe human exposure to static emf.

So, unless the standards have changed, contrast a reading of 2 milliGauss to 5 Gauss.

Some will also suggest that Guass/emf has supernatural properties and/or imply such an experience. I'm not even going to waste my time getting into that

 

I think the problem is that the Prius is way ahead of our time and the mechanical watches are getting envious and just go on strike. I recommend a digital Casio to match the car.

I also wish that the clock in the car would be revamped to something more modern - the one in my 2007 Prius could have been taken from a 1984 Corolla.

 

Oh, I almost forgot: one time when I was in Maui, I walked into a Rolex store. The sales associate started talking with me, pulled out a gold Rolex, and placed it in my hand. It felt like it weighed a couple of pounds! The price was $42,000. That was the most expensive watch that I've ever seen

But I'm perfectly happy with my $23 Timex!

 

Cover yourself with aluminum foil. Works everytime and prevents alian probes. LOL

 

I paid $50 for a Mickey extra large at Disney. That is the most I ever paid for a watch. Usually I pay $4 at wal-mart.

 

The watch is fine - the prius just bends time and space.

 

You'll get a reasonable field near almost any piece of steel (except many common stainless alloys). Have you measured in any other car?

Didn't someone here name his car the tardis here somewhere?

 

It has to be co-incidence, unless... are both of these watches self-winding?