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Is it safe sleeping next to a circuit breaker panel?
In my room there's an electrical panel box. (Or a circuit breaker panel) And my bed is right underneath so my head is pretty well touching it. Is this safe?
I know that infants have to have at least 1 room between them and the breaker... but does this effect adults too? Magnetic fields because of the electrodes or anything?
Thanks in advance!
I know that infants have to have at least 1 room between them and the breaker... but does this effect adults too? Magnetic fields because of the electrodes or anything?
Thanks in advance!
5 Answers
No problem. Just don't spray water on it or take the cover off and start poking aroung with a nail file.
Keep kids away if they think it's fun to play with switches and turn off the freezer so your food spoils and you get food poisoning or empty wallet syndrome. Othherwise, it's safer than an electric outlet.
Keep kids away if they think it's fun to play with switches and turn off the freezer so your food spoils and you get food poisoning or empty wallet syndrome. Othherwise, it's safer than an electric outlet.
All joking by the jokers aside, around any conductor through which current is passing, there is an electromagnetic field that projects well beyond the diameter of the conductor.
For the same reason it isn't recommended to live beneath major powergrid structures and transmission lines, prolonged exposure to lesser EMF strengths isn't really good for living organisms close-up either.
But the circuit breaker panel in your room isn't likely to be humming with current through every conductor in and out of it. The field around a few 120V lines operating a few home appliances at a few amps at any given hour is negligible beyond a meter or so, and we live with and within that every day.
If you have weird dreams every night you might try moving a little farther away from the panel, or flip your bed end for end so your feet are at the panel instead of your head. Beyond that, you could check with a feng shui expert. ;-)
For the same reason it isn't recommended to live beneath major powergrid structures and transmission lines, prolonged exposure to lesser EMF strengths isn't really good for living organisms close-up either.
But the circuit breaker panel in your room isn't likely to be humming with current through every conductor in and out of it. The field around a few 120V lines operating a few home appliances at a few amps at any given hour is negligible beyond a meter or so, and we live with and within that every day.
If you have weird dreams every night you might try moving a little farther away from the panel, or flip your bed end for end so your feet are at the panel instead of your head. Beyond that, you could check with a feng shui expert. ;-)
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