>From <
http://www.med.unc.edu/medicine/card/fellows/patientinstructions/EMI.pdf> 
:

"Note: If you have an ICD [Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator], some strong 
magnetic fields may cause
your device to make beeping tones."

Wow - I hope patients know about the possibility of beeping!  If I didn't 
know, and my chest started beeping, I think I'd have a heart attack.

Pat Lawler
EMC Engineer
SL Power Electronics Corp.

[email protected] wrote on 10/22/2010 03:12:53 PM:
> Page 4 of
> http://www.med.unc.edu/medicine/card/fellows/patientinstructions/EMI.pdf
> has some welding specific guidelines but no references as to where the
> numbers came from.  I'd ask the source ( www.guidant.com ) what studies
> back up their assertions.  Also see
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1279591 and
> 
http://samplecode.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/
> wp/nets-wp002_-en-p.pdf .
>
> Orin

> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:48:39 -0700 [email protected] writes:
> > Though I have seen lots of mentions of electromagnetic emissions by
> > welding equipment in the web searches I have done, I have seen no
> > quantitative measurements.
> >
> > The only indirect indication of the level of emissions is the
> > immunity
> > levels called out in IEC 60974-10 (10 V/m as per IEC 61000-4-3,
> > which our
> > equipment meets as well). But my guess is that this test is nearly
> > redundant for the equipment manufacturers, since I expect the level
> > of
> > emissions produced during welding to be as much if not more of a
> > problem.
> >
> > Donald Borowski
> > Schweitzer Engineering Labs
> > Pullman, Washington, USA
> >
> >
> >
> > From:
> > John Woodgate <[email protected]>
> > To:
> > [email protected]
> > Date:
> > 10/22/2010 01:37 PM
> > Subject:
> > Re: Test Standards for immunity to EMI from TIG and MIG welders?
> > Sent by:
> > [email protected]
> >
> >
> >
> > In message
> > 
<ofb20eb02e.ce4c32e9-on882577c4.0061e8f4-882577c4.00638...@selinc.com>,

> >
> > dated Fri, 22 Oct 2010, [email protected] writes:
> >
> > >So my last (and now most important) question is: Is there any
> > >literature describing the electromagnetic environment around TIG
> > and
> > >MIG welders while in operation in the field?
> >
> > I'm sorry that the IEC standard was inadequate. It's true that the
> > welding process in inherently subject to large variations in almost
> >
> > every characteristic.
> >
> > I looked at standards related to exposure to EMF from arc welding
> > equipment, (such as EN 50444) but I did not find any description of
> > the
> > environment.
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> > John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
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