Subject: High EMF in home - Success!!! (Mouscher).. Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 191550 -0600 (CST) From: "Roy L. Beavers"To: emfguru -------------------------------------------------- .......Here is one that is guaranteed to warm the heart of every "techie" on the list...... Thanks, Dean, for your feedback!! Roy Beavers (EMFguru) roy@emfguru.com .....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness..... NEW!!! Website ...................People are more important than profits................. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:01:14 -0600 From: Dean Mouscher To: "Roy L. Beavers" Subject: High EMF in home - Success!!! First let me thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for your many suggestions re my problem with high EMFs in my home. Armed with your input I solved it last night. Many of you suggested isolating the pipes (to which the ground is connected) from the street side of the plumbing system with a section of plastic pipe near where the cold water main enters the home. As I inspected my system I realized that had already been done when I installed a plastic whole-house water filter. Nevertheless, I still had the problem. I had two electricians come out and inspect it. Both told me that all houses have the same problem and nothing can be done. Last night I went down to the basement determined not to come up until I had learned something about the cause of the problem. The ceiling of my basement is a lattice work of pipes, electrical conduits and sheet-metal ductwork for the heating system - all metal and many of them touching each other. On a hunch I put a bit of wood in between two of them that were touching at a point where the EMF was particularly high and the field went WAY down. Encouraged, I went around the basement and systematically put wooden shims between every metal conduit, ductwork and plumbing I could find that was touching. The result? EMF down close to zero in most areas of the house. So simple yet so elusive. Thanks again for all your help. Had it not been for this list I would still be pulling my hair out and paying hundreds of dollars to electrician after electrician, all of whom have no idea how to solve the problem and so compensate by telling me there's nothing to worry about. So I am currently not grounded to the street side of the plumbing. The inside plumbing and the electrical system is grounded only to a copper rod driven into the ground. Can somebody reassure me that I'm not endangering my family by doing it this way - even if it violates code? Is there any way of proving that this ground is really secure? Thanks, Dean Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com