I have been reading this thread with a geat deal of interest as I also desire to use FIR. But as below...what bulbs are you using here? 4, 150W what? I have looked at the products available as saunas or lamps, but I was unsure how to or what to obtain for the source FIR generation to build that fits my needs and budget.
What do the far infrared saunas use? Are these bulbs (far infrared) readily available? And are the infrared "reptile" bulbs, as someone cleverly put in use, generating far infrared? radishes, Maz V <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Marshall, Yes you need that much I use 4 of the 150 watt ones and it is jsut enough. the distance you are away from them has a lot to do with it. if you are right up near them they get very warm but when they are 2 feet away they are very pleasant and comfertable for long periods of time. dont confuse them with a 250 watt heat lamp which will burn you up. But thats not Far infrared so there is a big difference in these Far infgrared heaters as far as wattage required. So I lay under 600 watts worth of them and I barely break a sweat. you dont need to sweat much to make FIR work in the body. It works even if you dont sweat. Take care, V > "M. G. Devour" wrote: >> Jason asks: >> > Are these 150 watt heaters suitable for human use? ... or would one >> > truly need a 300 watt far infrared heater? >> Two 150's side by side is going to be hard to distinguish from one 300. >> > But is 300 watts necessary? That is a heck of a lot of power to be pumping > into one's body, a person normally generates about 100 watts of heat, so > that would increase their heat load by 300%. The body would have to > dissipate 4X as much as as normal, and if using it on an extremety could > result in overheating or even cooking I would think. >> One question worth asking is what kind of electromagnetic field do they >> generate? If I put myself in a box with a bunch of these, how bad is >> the bombardment? > They generate far infrared. It is similar to the radiation you feel coming > off of a hot pan and will contain both far as well as near infrared. Use > of some cotton between it and your body will eliminate the near infrared > (that has very little penetrating power), leaving the deep penetration far > infrared. > Refrigerators are being made with far infrared compartments for meat. They > claim that the far infrared increases the nucleic acid in meat, making it > maintain it's taste longer. This could be a hint on what it does in the > body as well. Also there is a paper on pasturization using far infrared, > which might mean it is capable of killing pathogens in the body as well: > TI Far-infrared irradiation effect on pasteurization of bacteria on or > within wet-solid medium > AU Hashimoto, Atsushi; Igarashi, Hideo; Shimizu, Masaru > AF Tokyo Univ of Agriculture & Technology > AC Tokyo > AY Jpn > SE J Chem Eng Jpn > ST Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan > SN 0021-9592 > CN JCEJAQ > IG 0078972 ISL n 6 SD Dec VOL v 25 YR 1992 > AT (Author abstract) NR 9 Refs AB > The present purpose is to study the influence of far-infrared > irradiation on pasteurization of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus > aureus on or within a model for wet-solid food. Agar medium was used > as the food model. By determining the thermal resistances of the test > bacteria, the pasteurization effect of far-infrared irradiation > (radiative heating) was compared with that of hot-air heating > (a conventional method) from the viewpoint of thermal death kinetics. > It was found experimentally that far-infrared irradiation is more > effective than hot-air heating for the test bacteria on the agar-plate. > More information on FIR can be found here: > http://www.chimachine4u.com/fir.html > Marshall > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > List maintainer: Mike Devour > -- --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.
