Mechnical Watches and Electric Vehicles

Mechnical Watches and Electric Vehicles

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anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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StephenP said:
Isn't that more to do with the risk of shock and its impact on the pacemaker?
it's not to do with the pacemaker but the heart that the pacemaker is attached too.

A pacemaker provides an electrical stymulus to the heart muscle because that heart has lost it's ability to be driven fully by the hosts CNS. This also makes that heart very much more sensitive to being fibrilated by any electrical current passing through the body. For a typical fit and health person, it takes between 10 and 50mA of current to push a heart into fibrilation, for someone with a pacemaker, that can be sub 1mA, ie they have a much greater chance of a minor electrical shock leading to fibrilation.



Discombobulate

4,794 posts

185 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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airweaz said:
Afternoon all.

Anyone experienced any issues with owning an electric vehicle and wearing a traditional mechanical watch?

I know a number of more modern watches have a faraday cap or cage which would limit the issue of magnetism with a watch but plenty of watches don't have this and could be exposed to such an issue.

Tesla owners? Taycan drivers? Any feedback?
Physics is not your thing I guess? wink
See MaxTorque's reply.
Not an issue.

NDA

21,490 posts

224 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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airweaz said:
Anyone experienced any issues with owning an electric vehicle and wearing a traditional mechanical watch?
No. And I don't think it's a thing.

I have a Tesla, I do a high mileage in it. I also own some complex mechanical watches (annual calendars etc). No problems.

I also have an implant in my heart (not a pacemaker) which is extremely sensitive to magnetic fields - will actually sound an alarm, which is a bit weird. Again no problems with the Tesla.