Stetzer meter

Does anybody here use a Stetzerizer surgemeter? If so, what kind of
readings do you find?

Still trying to get to the bottom of why the bedroom feels so
uncomfortable. Still feels like it is the overhead fan (switched off at
the wall) that is effecting me (I don't like the A/C vent directly over
me either).

Shivani says that there is still an electric field around a switched-
off fan even if not a 60 Hz magnetic field.

Any comments?

Thanks,
Aline

Aline wrote:
> Does anybody here use a Stetzerizer surgemeter? If so, what kind of
> readings do you find?

It seems that many people add filters until they can get their
readings down below 20.

I don't use the filters, but have the meter. I find that with
the TV/stereo turned off, the readings are around 50-80. With
them turned on, the readings are around 150-200.

I found one outlet in the living room that was much higher
than the rest (sometimes up to 500). This outlet was bothering
me, so I replaced the outlet with a higher quality one, and the
readings went back down to normal (and it stopped bothering me).

Marc

The reality on the stetzer filters is some people feel better, some feel the
same and some feel worse. Personally I wasn't helped by the stetzer
filters. The surge meter is not calibrated, so the result numbers don't
mean anything, the only relative thing you will see is you'll see a higher
number before you put the filters on, and a lower number after, but you
can't just buy a surge meter to see how much rf is on your lines, the actual
numbers they give are meaningless.

On 4/24/07, Aline <[hidden email]> wrote:


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Paul Coffman


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> I don't use the filters, but have the meter. I find that with
> the TV/stereo turned off, the readings are around 50-80. With
> them turned on, the readings are around 150-200.

After posting the above, I remembered that I had recently installed
a new power strip on the TV/stereo -- a Furman PST-8D, which
is supposed to have really good AC line noise attenuation
(bi-directional):

Noise reduction > 40 dB from 150 kHz - 100 kHz
Noise reduction > 80 dB from 100 kHz - 1GHz

So I redid the above measurements, and guess what? Turning on
the TV/stereo had no affect on the Stetzer meter readings
in the surrounding outlets -- the readings were ~80 with
everything turned on or off!

Marc

> Noise reduction > 40 dB from 150 kHz - 100 kHz
> Noise reduction > 80 dB from 100 kHz - 1GHz

Sorry, that should have read:

Noise reduction > 40 dB from 10 kHz - 100 kHz
Noise reduction > 80 dB from 100 kHz - 1GHz

I believe the Stetzer meter is paying attention to the
10 khz - 100 khz range...

Marc