Mark Lanctot Wrote: > -<And now for something completely different!>- > > I got an exercise bike today. It's described as a "magnetic" exercise > bike. I suppose this means the resistance is provided by a magnet > acting on a ferrous disc attached to the pedals but I couldn't locate > any technical details. > > What to do while exercising - why, listen to the Squeezebox, of course! > :-) > > Except I couldn't. The SB kept freezing, stalling, dropping out. In > short it performed the worst it ever had in the 10 minutes I was using > this bike. > > When I stopped, everything went back to normal. > > So I guess my question is - would there be any way using this bike > would cause EMI? By Faraday's Law, current would be induced in the > disc - it would have to be. Would it then emit EMI? > > It's a very cheap bike, so if the more expensive ones have any sort of > shielding this one does not have it... > > Hopefully no one thinks I'm a quack for asking, but the effect is > dramatic and repeatable.
This is so spooky, I had the same problem yesterday when I tried to watch a movie on my wireless laptop the same time I used my electromag wind trainer (exercise bike). Thought I was going loopy as normally the laptop is fine for streaming video. I did change the channel and it got a lot better, I just couldn't work out why it would happen. -- mattybain http://www.last.fm/user/MattyBain/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mattybain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22206 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
