Hi Max, I think the far infrared saunas use the same elements that are available from this company " http://www.infraredheaters.com/ I use the pet heaters becaues they are easiest to install. there are spec sheets for them all that shows what range in the Infrared they cover. I believe the pet heaters where between 2 and 10 microns.
Take care, V > 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. --
