Created: THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2018
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Handing ELF issues in the home office
The move
About 5 months ago we moved to a new house. The radiation levels here seemed to be even lower than the house I used to live in. RF bellow 0.0005mW/m2 and ELF-M bellow 1mG most of the time. And still, since the move, I have been coping with headaches and symptoms when working in front of the PC in my working room. Every time I find and solve a new problem, I feel better. But then a new problem presents itself, again and again.
Issues found and solved from today and back.
Today I solved (still need to see if I feel better in the next few days in order to be sure) a problem that caused me to feel sick with my stomach and to have brain fog after an hour or two of working next to the PC (laptop with external keyboard and mouse, external screen, wired network) in my home office. The problem was that the laptop and the internet switch were too close to me. They were located on the floor next to my legs. Today I moved them to the other side of the room (as far away as possible from me) and also shortened and upgraded the network cable to CAT6.
Multi Socket power outlet – a source for Electric field
A week ago I managed to find the source of the headaches that I used to get after an hour or two of working on the laptop. It was a small on-wall 3 to 1 power socket. It was located about 60cm from me. The measurement showed only a small Electric field next to it. I decided to remove it as a part of trial and error. I was looking for the cause of these headaches a few weeks ago and since I could not find it with the meter, I started doing some changes by chance, once every day, until I removed the socket and felt better a few minutes later.
Disconnecting the electricity
Disconnecting the electricity Nutral from the ground system
Two weeks ago, I finally solved (with the help of a professional electrician called Mani Segal) a problem in the house’s electric grounding. The Neutral wire was connected to the ground wires and caused the currents I created in the house, to go on the ground wires to the neighbors. I also learned that from all places I chose to sit above the ground wire. This led me to change the sitting location inside the room and to relocate some of the equipment in the room. The fix of this issue was seen on the ELF magnetic measurements. Before the fix, If I was to turn ON an electric heavy-duty appliance, say an oven, I was able to see a rise in the magnetic field as long as it was working. Now the rize is only for a small part of a second and then the field goes down again. This problem caused me to develop headaches for 15-30 minutes of work in this room. I knew about this problem before we moved, but I was delayed with the fix for weeks and months.
Installing ELF magnetic field protection
A month ago I installed (with the help of a professional company called Dolev ) an ELF Magnetic field protection system on one of the walls of my home office. On the other side of this wall, you can find the main electric cabinet of the house. The improvement after the fix could be measured right away. The levels of the ELF-M field were reduced (as long as no electric appliance was operating). As far as symptoms are concerned I felt an improvement, again as long as no electric appliance was turned ON.
For several days it seemed that the symptoms become better but then I saw that not every day, and not for all the day.
In this case, as in others, I postponed the fix, until I was sure about it.
New desk arrangement
A few weeks back I relocated the laptop from on the table to below it. This trial and error move proved to improve the headaches I used to get after 10 minutes of work on the PC.
In a few days, I will complete the fix by installing an EMF protection wallpaper in order to absorb some of the reflections from the metallic ELF-Magnetic field protection.
Each and every one of these steps was done while doing lots of measurements (before, during, and after) of the radiation levels using my home use meters, and according to the knowledge and experience I gained while coping with EHS and while helping others.
In some cases, I could not find the willpower to do the fixes or steps. I was exhausted. But every time I tried to do small steps and eventually managed to complete and make major changes.
In some cases, I did not know what is the cause of my symptoms. I just kept trying to do some measurements and did some steps and changes in the trial and error method. I just kept trying until one of the measurements showed a clue or one of the changes made me feel better.
What can we learn from all this:
1. Move the computer and its equipment away as possible from you. Use a wired keyboard and mouse, a LCD/LED screen with an external power supply, use a wired network.
2. Don’t use electric socket splitters near you. Prefer the use of electric socket splitters with long cables and locate them as far as possible away from you.
3. Don’t give up. Try to change and improve. Maybe the next step will help.
4. Keep it simple – as little as possible electric appliances and computer equipment next to you.
5. When you don’t have a clue what is the cause of the symptoms, just pull out from the socket the electric and electronic devices, one at a time.
6. Mental coping – Every time there is a problem, the mind starts to think that this is it. “for that problem, there is no solution”. “We will not find the problem, and will not be able to fix it”, ” I am doomed”, ” I can’t do it anymore…”. The way to cope with that is by during all the measurements, tests, trials, and errors, fixed, all in small achievable steps. to remember that after solving the issue we will not remember the hard time and suffering, but only the fix. We need to forget the suffering. At first, it is not easy, but then you get accustomed to it and it becomes second nature.
I remind you that in this case, all the problems were in the ELF fields from in-house equipment and infrastructure. The house has no RF-emitting devices in it, and the environmental levels are mostly low.
Next Chapters:
– https://www.norad4u.com/blog/2021/10/new-laptop-minimalism-meter-home-office-improvements-10-2021/
– https://www.norad4u.com/blog/2022/06/emf-reduction-in-my-home-office-chapter-8/
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