Re: Stetzerizer Meter

[Guest guest]

> Electric that reads changes in voltage as a function of time (dV/dt). A

healthy

> level is under 50. Most of my outlets showed a solid " 1 " , with but some were

> fluctuating around 1900. I called Stetzer Electric and learned that the

> meter only displays up to 1999

This article was interesting enough that I pulled out my (largely unused)

Stetzerizer meter. I found some of the readings last night rather

curious, although I don't have an explanation yet. For example,

I was getting a reading of ~500 in my den last night before I went to bed.

So I unplugged and turned off everything in the room, and it was still

high. However, when I looked at it the next morning, the reading

was down to 50, even though there seemed to be no difference in what

was turned on and plugged in.

Then I turned back on the 2 computers, routers, printer, etc., and the

reading went up to 100. At least that makes sense. But I still have

no explanation for the high readings from last night. I'd blame it

on my next door neighbor, except that neither of them are home...

Marc

[Guest guest]

Hello Marc,

I am also playing around with my Stetzerizer Meter.

It is quite interesting.

It reads 39, 46, 69, 106, and than 456, than 39, 45, 49, and 562.

With my HAARP or VLF Detektor in the position 5 kHz -30 kHz, it gives this

pulse, just before the amout on the meter occurs.

This pulse I have found, coming from the street, from two installation

cabinets of a company, that furnishes cabel television and cable internet.

Just behind those cabinets, there is a pole, which guides the electricity

mains to my house.

If I check the poles at my neighbours, the signals get weaker as I go

farther away.

So the signals are definitely coming from those cabinets.

I have filed a complaint with this company, and also with my electricity

company, because I get *dirty* electricty.

(It is not *green*, but *black*,. ;o)) )

So far no comment, because many people are in holidays.

But in due time I want it fixed.

The Stetzer filter does something strange too.

If I place a filter in the mains, and plug the Stetzerzer Mter in it, the

peak value goes to only 108 GS, in stead of 562 GS units.

But, my HAARP Detektor, holding against the wall, above the wallsocket (10

cm) gives a higher value.

I mean that he finds a raise in signals by the filter and the meter.

Nothing placed: 100-200 V/m (the higher value is the pulse, which I can hear

very clearly)

With Stetzerizer Meter plugged and filter in between: 150 to 700 V/m

Without Stetzerizer Meter but only the filter: from 100 to 200 V/m

The Haarp Detektor has a LED scale from 10 too 1000 (V/m ?)

So, something funny is going on.

It seems, as if the disturbing pulses are weakend after the filter, but

reinforced in the mains line.

Perhaps that is the reason, that they advise for placing at least 25 filters

in your home.

I think, that those companies should see, that I get *clean* electricity in

the first place.

Greetings,

Claessens

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Re: Stetzerizer meter

> > Electric that reads changes in voltage as a function of time (dV/dt). A

healthy

> > level is under 50. Most of my outlets showed a solid " 1 " , with but some

were

> > fluctuating around 1900. I called Stetzer Electric and learned that

the

> > meter only displays up to 1999

>

> This article was interesting enough that I pulled out my (largely unused)

> Stetzerizer meter. I found some of the readings last night rather

> curious, although I don't have an explanation yet. For example,

> I was getting a reading of ~500 in my den last night before I went to bed.

> So I unplugged and turned off everything in the room, and it was still

> high. However, when I looked at it the next morning, the reading

> was down to 50, even though there seemed to be no difference in what

> was turned on and plugged in.

>

> Then I turned back on the 2 computers, routers, printer, etc., and the

> reading went up to 100. At least that makes sense. But I still have

> no explanation for the high readings from last night. I'd blame it

> on my next door neighbor, except that neither of them are home...

>

> Marc

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

> Can it really vary this much? I'm trying to make sense of this before

> shelling out for filters which I can't really afford.

Yes, it can vary quite a lot, depending on whatever is contributing

to the noise on the line, and whether that thing is turned on

or off.

The question is -- do you feel noticeably worse when the readings

are high compared to when the readings are low? If you

don't notice any difference, then perhaps the Stetzer filters

won't provide you any noticeable benefit.

Marc

[Guest guest]

I understand that readings are influenced by what our neighbors are

doing also but it doesn't seem to make any difference if our 2

computers are off or on.

Is it mainly computers that produce electrical pollution (I know

dimmers switches do also but it is unlikely that people have them on

during the day when I have often tested).

I guess I will have to test in the middle of the night when it is

unlikely anyone has much switched on.

Thanks for any further clarification.

Aline

It just doesn't In , Marc <marc@...> wrote:

Can it really vary this much? I'm trying to make sense of this before

shelling out for filters which I can't really afford.

Yes, it can vary quite a lot, depending on whatever is contributing

to the noise on the line, and whether that thing is turned on

or off.

The question is -- do you feel noticeably worse when the readings

are high compared to when the readings are low? If you

don't notice any difference, then perhaps the Stetzer filters

won't provide you any noticeable benefit.

Marc

[Guest guest]

It makes sense that it varies a lot. Certain types of electric motors and

electronics

running will make a big difference (in your house or in any house sharing

the

same transformer). Plugging the electronics in to a good surge

protector might help. A possible way to see if it will help you is to

experiment

with turning off breakers. If that doesn't help, I don't see how filters

can. And

when you turn off the breaker you're also cutting out the 60Hz fields, which

the

filters don't do (in fact they increase the magnetic field a bit, so you

want the

filters close to the source of the noise and far from you).

On the other hand, the breaker box may have huge fields, especially when

open,

so spending a lot of time experimenting with it could make you feel worse?

Take care and good luck--Bill

On 7/2/07, Aline <haikuron@...> wrote:

>

> I have been using a Stetzerizer meter to measure the electrical

> pollution in circuits and sometimes the readings are below 50 and other

> times they are off the richter (a huge number flashes (often over 1,000

> and then the meter reads 1 on the left side of the gauge, which I have

> been told is what happens when the readings are higher than the meter

> can register).

>

> Can it really vary this much? I'm trying to make sense of this before

> shelling out for filters which I can't really afford.

>

> Thanks,

> Aline

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

> Is it mainly computers that produce electrical pollution (I know

> dimmers switches do also but it is unlikely that people have them on

> during the day when I have often tested).

Our washing machine registers very high frequencies on the stetzer meter

when its in use.

[Guest guest]

I regularly see readings of over 1000 when no appliances or computers

are running except the fridge (as I said it flashes on a huge number

then goes to 1) so I am presuming the readings are being generated

from neighbors.

Something doesn't feel right about this. The person I purchased the

meter from says she has seen this phenomena (the dial going to 1) in

schools but not residential housing.

I generally feel like crap in the living room and kitchen - feel

invaded by energy. I can feel it going up my legs and into my energy

centers when I stand in the kitchen cooking. Yesterday I was trying

to clean the floors and I reached the point where I wanted to scream

and throw things. Had to go outside.

Also getting wi-fied in the bedrooms and it feels like the metal in

the bed is intensifying it. Can't stay in the bed more than 10

minutes - I feel 'electrified'. Sleeping on a futon in the bathroom

currently but I'm still getting wi-fried in there, just not as badly.

Aaaaagh " What's it going to be next? " (to quote my husband). We are

probably going to put the house on the market but I don't know if I

will survive till then. It's an uphill struggle trying to get my

partner to believe me, let alone make changes ( " you want me to tear

the house apart....... " ).

Apologies for the rant.

Aline

I have been using a Stetzerizer meter to measure the electrical

pollution in circuits and sometimes the readings are below 50 and

other times they are off the richter (a huge number flashes (often

over 1,000 and then the meter reads 1 on the left side of the gauge,

which I have mbeen told is what happens when the readings are higher

than the meter can register).

Can it really vary this much? I'm trying to make sense of this before

shelling out for filters which I can't really afford.

Thanks,

Aline

[Guest guest]

Hi , thanks for your response.

Neighbors are quite close (30-40' on the bedroom side where the wi-fi

is coming from).

I was using a swiffer in the living room, not a vacuum cleaner but

there are hot spots from wiring all over that area.

I dream about camping outside but it would invade the privacy of our

vacation rental guests downstairs and then there's the neighbor's A/C

and porch lights.......

I believe the problem in the bedroom is predominantly wi-fi and the

kitchen/living/dining is predominantly magnetic fields from wiring. I

can feel the energy going up my legs when I stand in the kitchen.

There are some spots I stay right away from as I can feel it so

strongly.

I know some people say that it is the electrical pollution on the

60hz rather than the clean 60hz itself that causes the problems. I'm

sure the radio frequencies from the wi-fi are travelling on the

electrical circuits too, however.

I feel fine in the apartment below (which has no hotspots) although

I'm sure I would have a problem sleeping in the bedroom (which is

also wi-fied). I also feel fine in other houses, although being in

this house has sensitized me to things like fluorescent lights and

microwave ovens - things that I hardly noticed previously.

Aline

In , " S. son " <sandreas41@...> wrote:

Aline wrote:

I regularly see readings of over 1000 when no appliances or computers

are running except the fridge (as I said it flashes on a huge number

then goes to 1) so I am presuming the readings are being generated

from neighbors.

I forget if you said (months ago), but how close are your nearest

neighbors?

Something doesn't feel right about this. The person I purchased the

meter from says she has seen this phenomena (the dial going to 1) in

schools but not residential housing.

Schools have Lots and lots of fluorescent lighting, and the newer

" electronic " ones are noisier than the old fashioned flickering ones.

The meter does measure noise on the line. Dirty power can be seen on

an oscilloscope.

You may be right, in that filters might not help. Depends on where

the noise is coming from.

I generally feel like crap in the living room and kitchen - feel

invaded by energy. I can feel it going up my legs and into my energy

centers when I stand in the kitchen cooking. Yesterday I was trying

to clean the floors and I reached the point where I wanted to scream

and throw things. Had to go outside.

The vacuum is a possible noise maker. What you describe, are

locations with high magnetic fields, or electric fields.

Are you rural enough to camp outside? somewhere away from power lines

and neighbors?

Also getting wi-fied in the bedrooms and it feels like the metal in

the bed is intensifying it. Can't stay in the bed more than 10

minutes - I feel 'electrified'. Sleeping on a futon in the bathroom

currently but I'm still getting wi-fried in there, just not as badly.

Who has a wi-fi transmitter? nearby?

Sounds like duck soup. Too many things going on to single out any one

cause.

Aaaaagh " What's it going to be next? " (to quote my husband). We are

probably going to put the house on the market but I don't know if I

will survive till then. It's an uphill struggle trying to get my

partner to believe me, let alone make changes ( " you want me to tear

the house apart....... " ).

Apologies for the rant.

The more details you give, the more it usually helps.

My sympathies. I can only recommend moving.

How do you feel in Other houses?

[Guest guest]

Hi Yolanda,

I didn't explain clearly: we don't have wireless (no way!) but we are

getting signals from at least 4 other systems in our house. The

signal is so strong in the bedroom that the electrosmog detector goes

off.

I am actually wondering now if the ES detector is picking up a DECT

phone rather than wireless as we talked to our closest neighbor on

the bedroom side and he swears he switches off his wi-fi most nights.

Re a swiffer: are we talking about the same thing? A plastic 'broom'

thing that grips a clingy fabric sheet?! Chemical fallout?

Thanks for clarifying,

Aline

I was using a swiffer in the living room, not a vacuum cleaner but

there are hot spots from wiring all over that area.

I feel fine in the apartment below (which has no hotspots) although

I'm sure I would have a problem sleeping in the bedroom (which is

also wi-fied

I seem to recall something about swiffers being really nasty as far

as the chemical fall out from them. I wouldn't have one.

You or anybody else would be much better to hard wire your wireless

router right into the electricity. A wireless is not only picking up

the emf from your equipment but from everyone else's equipment in

your neighborhood. Also if you are wireless your system can very

easily be hacked into. When we finally got cable, the cable

installers wired the wireless right into our system. It took about a

minute and didn't cost us anything extra.

Yolanda

[Guest guest]

Hello all,

I finally managed to get hold of a stetzerizer meter

a month ago. Feel well in Brisbane.100- 160 w/o filter,

less with. Uni library 100- 200.

First unwell in Melbourne home. Readings ok, to I think

160 w/o filter, expected more. Shot up to 700s with washing machine

spin cycle (I'm sure variable speed drive in machine, I've always

had symptoms after that machine used). Light

dimmer on halogens put it up about 100 when on I think.

But next to my bed that I used to occupy when this started

years ago there is a power plug. Cleaning woman used was

uncoordinated and used to stand on it so clock radio plug

would hang out. When tested and plug was jiggled (as it

used to hang out) it would shoot up to 700s then down,

only when plug loose- poor connection. I mentioned dowsing

lines were here adjacent some time ago. I remember that plug

hanging loose.

To place where I stayed in Melbourne for last 7 years.

Mansion split up into units. Diabetic friend next door. Just

lost a lens cataract, plastic implant. Prior brain surgery

for trigeminal neuralgia. Other mate neighbour serious arthritis

hobbles along. Other guy out the back serious illness, resuscitated

in the carpark. Other neighbour moved in upstairs 1 yr, alcohol

since, 6 mo since diabetes diagnosis. I am sure it is a sick

building. I mentioned my own issue previous.

Stetzer during day- 200- 220.

At night with tvs on all units occupied max 993, avg 800- 900.

I went to get a local dr to set up a study to replicated stetz

blood glucose 3 yrs ago. He said yes, but I got distracted. As I do. 1 yr

away from Melbourne I'm running on treadmill. We need follow up

on bl glucose. It is quite possible that obesity epidemic may be

linked to dirty wiring producing glucose surges- large community

and public interest there. We can crossmatch GS with bgl with heart rate

variability and sleep, symptoms.

Stetzer meters: Pr Graham and Stetzer have done a great job with

this concept and service to us. Meter readings must be logged or

they are not good enough- large weekly changes. Aline's story

interesting. GS Meter circuit is patented. For those who already

own one, we need to drill a couple of holes in the front of the

meter and wire in a little voltage or current plug- two little pins

into the circuit where you can plug in a logging device and it will

store a weeks readings without damaging the machine or altering the

readings. I will get

onto a mate shortly to knock out a circuit. GS MEters are copyright,

these not for sale, DIY.

With logging meters its not hard to plug them in at home, stab yourself

with a bgl pin every day and run a very simple investigation. Hope

my mate Nicko will help me, but anybody here who can modify a bit of

electronics great. Even cross compare with sleep. Do a few correlations.

I've seen one report where the Canadian govt try to knock the meter

and they point out in artificial conditions it can produce harmonics. I

wonder if this produce occasionally reported disagreements with some

people? A harmonic filter on the switch (expensive) should help. Like

Marc's one (Furman)?

Filters in all my circumstances lower readings. Filters now hum having

copped a few surges. I guarantee I will recontact my fellows who

lived with me previously in box hill and see how they go with some

GS filters after they have had them a year.

I note that at the Melbourne WHO conference Pr Laurie Challis pointed

out that many models showed no damage from EMF, except more advanced

(called nonlinear) models of EMF in what I think he said was the VLF

range- same as GS filters.

I would like to contact Pr Challis and get these models but may have

offended him at the conference, oh well.

Very interested in comments of 30 KHz from tv NOT connected to

mains. Wonder if pickup from transformer in tv. Any ideas from anyone?

Also space near computer (presumably measured with loop antenna?)- is

a computer monitor a primary radiator of these VLF signals? VLF would

normally

sit on a wire, being called conductive. Maybe when the get aggressive they

can radiate?

I am quite interested in these GS VLF signals and how they interact with

hotspots, cancer cluster sites and what some consider geopathic stress.

Sidetracking to cancer cluster sites: official organisations have

displayed that they may not have due candour when allowing

readings to be taken. But sometimes cancer clusters hit civilan homes.

There is a nasty cluster in Castle Ave near Sheffield I think UK. The

UK volunteers are overstretched as it is, and I've had the police

called on me doing a doorknock myself at a possible cluster (!!), but if

somebody could get to castle ave and see if they have high GS readings,

as Lloyd found at a high school recently, that could be a great

help to them, and also to us.

I'm wondering if noisy VLF is 'TURBULENT ELECTRICITY' related to

longitudinal

waves, versus CLEAN 'LAMINAR ELECTRICITY'. I'm guessing whether high

GS readings may be a marker for longitudinal waves which may exist.

Good to hear of typical readings. I will not live in Box Hill anymore I

think, even with filters, just to be sure. I have just ordered a

soundblaster

audigy sound card and got some probes. I want to record these signals

over an extended period. There is an interesting article in May 'Elektor'

magazine on that sort of thing. A man says these signals emanate out of

the ground near his home. I want to know if they're associated with

geopathic stress.

I haven't forgotten mentioning a bit of a funding society some weeks ago.

I will knock up a little suggestion following that of those who have

already

suggested it in about a month and send it to the societies, if anybody is

interested. Societies are good at their activism, every now and then

they need some research funding ties.

Good to hear about typical GS values- maybe a list in the files section

as a database?

Cool, Rowster C.

>

> > Is it mainly computers that produce electrical pollution (I know

> > dimmers switches do also but it is unlikely that people have them on

> > during the day when I have often tested).

>

>

> Our washing machine registers very high frequencies on the stetzer meter

> when its in use.

>

[Guest guest]

Aline mentioned that she does not see a difference in the Steter meter

readings when her own computers are on vs. off. I'd like to point out that

the meter has to be plugged into the same line that the computers are, to see

what effect they are having re. electrical pollution.

If the computers are on the building's A line and the meter is plugged

into the B line, you won't be able to tell what they are adding, over on the A

line.

Shivani

www.LifeEnergies.com

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[Guest guest]

Hi Shivani,

I did plug the meter into a socket in the office and we also tested

with it plugged into the nearest socket to the meter box and then

turning off all the other circuits one by one except the nearest one

(on both phases) and it showed 1 every time.

So I can only presume that these readings are coming from outside.

You recommended 20 filters but I understand that I need to put them

near the meter box so not quite sure how to do that.

Any advice?

Thanks,

Aline

In , SArjuna@... wrote:

Aline mentioned that she does not see a difference in the Steter

meter readings when her own computers are on vs. off. I'd like to

point out that the meter has to be plugged into the same line that

the computers are, to see what effect they are having re. electrical

pollution.

If the computers are on the building's A line and the meter is

plugged into the B line, you won't be able to tell what they are

adding, over on the A line.

Shivani

www.LifeEnergies.com

[Guest guest]

The Health Canada " study " of the GS filters is not science, and was done

with the sole intention of discrediting the filters.

Dr. Havas's letter to Health Canada:

GS Filters/Health Canada, Oct. 2006 mhavas@... page 1/5

Magda Havas, B.Sc., Ph.D.

Environmental & Resource Studies

TRENT UNIVERSITY, PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO, CANADA, K9J 7B8

Phone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 1232, FAX: (705) 748-1569, e-mail mhavas@...

Open letter to Health Canada

Response to: Evaluation of the Stetzer Filters1

October 10, 2006

The Honorable Tony Clement,

Minister of Health,

Health Canada.

clement.j@...

I raise a serious concern about a document1 written by six scientists at

Health Canada's Consumer and

Clinical Protection Bureau that was recently posted on the BC Centre for

Disease Control2 web site. The

Health Canada scientists purport to test the effectiveness of the

Graham/Stetzer filters to reduce dirty

electricity. This document does not appear on the Health Canada web site and

has not been published in a

peer-reviewed journal. Had it been peer reviewed it would not have been

accepted for the obvious errors

I mention below. This document is more concerned in protecting the electric

utility than it is in protecting

the health of Canadians. It surprises me that Health Canada would approve

release of this document with

so many fundamental errors.

It is my understanding that this document has been circulated widely yet the

Health Canada authors did

not have the courtesy to send a copy of their report to the designers of this

filter, Professor Graham

(UC Berkeley) and Mr. Dave Stetzer (President of Stetzer Electric).

I ask you to look into this matter. Dave Stetzer has agreed to demonstrate

how the filters work using appropriate equipment and I ask you to encourage your

scientists at Health Canada to take him up on his

offer.

What follows is my evaluation of and response to the Health Canada document1.

Sincerely,

Magda Havas

1 Gajda, G., A. Thansandote, E. Lemay, D. Lecuyer, W. Gorman, and J. McNamee.

2006.

Report on Evaluation of Stetzer Filters, Consumer and Clinical Radiation

Protection Bureau, Health Canada.

2 BCCDC web site: www.bccdc.org/content.php?.item=62 NOTE: This agency states

the following:

Cell Phones: Scientific evidence to date has not presented convincing

evidence from either animal, cellular,

laboratory studies or epidemiology to implicate electromagnetic radiation

exposure from portable phones as

a cause of cancer.

Cellular Transmitting Towers: Most research studies conducted to date have

not shown that electromagnetic

fields surrounding a cellular transmitter site cause cancer or other adverse

health effects in the population.

Power Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields: Therefore the available

scientific evidence to date does not

support the assumption that adverse health effects from exposure to these

fields at levels normally

encountered in our homes, schools and offices pose a risk to human health.

GS Filters/Health Canada, Oct. 2006 mhavas@... page 2/5

Havas, M. 2006. Response to: Evaluation of the Stetzer Filters. Open letter

to Health

Canada, October 10, 2006.

Many products are now available to help people who suffer from exposure to

electromagnetic energy and

it is right for Health Canada to take these claims seriously and to test the

products to see if they do indeed

accomplish what they claim. Obviously this is what Health Canada had in mind

when they decided to test

the GS filters. I applaud them for this but am deeply disturbed by some of

the fundamental errors they

made during the testing of these filters and in the flawed document they

produced.

Health Canada used equipment that neither had the appropriate range of

frequencies nor had the needed

sensitivity to test the GS filters? Health Canada inappropriately applied

equations intended for linear

loads to non-linear loads? Health Canada claimed that the GS filters produce

dirty electricity that may be

harmful to human health when they previously denied any harmful effects of

dirty electricity? Health

Canada seems more concerned about the impact these filters might have on the

electricity providers rather

than the impact dirty electricity might have on the health of Canadians, as

their name implies?

This open letter is intended to set the record straight and to offer Health

Canada a demonstration

of what the GS filters do using appropriate equipment.

I will deal with some of the more blatant errors in the Health Canada

document and try to keep it as

concise and non-technical as possible so that others will see what Health

Canada has done or failed to do.

I understand that Dr. Don Hillman (Michigan State University) responded

earlier this year to statements

made in this document concerning biological effects of dirty electricity and

that Dr. Graham (UC

Berkeley) plans to respond to the electrical engineering aspects based on the

Health Canada study design

and execution.

1. The GS filters remove dirty electricity within the frequency range of 4 to

100 kHz (4,000 and 100,000

cycles per second) and their ability to reduce microsurges above and below

this range falls off

rapidly. This was clearly stated in the Havas and Stetzer (2004) document

cited by Health Canada.

So why did Health Canada use equipment that covered the range of 50 Hz to 5

kHz? There was an

overlap of 1 kHz and this tested 1% of the effective frequency range of the

filters. Clearly

inappropriate instrumentation was used and hence Health Canada can make no

claims as to whether

or not the filters work because they were unable to test the filters

properly. This alone makes the

entire document worthless as a test of the effectiveness of the GS filters to

reduce dirty electricity in

the 4 to 100 kHz frequency range (Figure 1).

overlap 4 to 5 kHz (1% effective range of GS filters)

instrument used by Health Canada 50 Hz to 5 kHz

effective range of GS filters 4 kHz to 100 kHz

frequency (kHz)

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Figure 1. Frequency range for GS filter, frequency range for equipment Health

Canada

used to test the GS filters, overlapping frequencies.

0

GS Filters/Health Canada, Oct. 2006 mhavas@... page 3/5

2. The dirty electricity rides on top of the 60 Hz sine wave yet Health

Canada made no attempt to

separate the 60 Hz cycle from the high frequencies. They could have used a

ubiquitous filter and thus

had more accuracy for the higher frequencies for at least 1 kHz of the

overlap between the

instrumentation and the filter's effective range.

Health Canada admits their equipment did not have the appropriate sensitivity

because, when the GS

filter was plugged in, the microsurge meter measured reductions in dirty

electricity that their

equipment failed to detect.

3. Health Canada states that the filters have no effect at low frequencies in

reducing harmonics. They

provide evidence of this up to the 7th harmonic or 420 Hz. No one ever

claimed the GS filters worked

at these low frequencies. They work for the frequency range of 4,000 to

100,000 Hz and 420 Hz is no

within that range. This is a red herring meant to discredit the filters by

stating they don't work but for

a frequency range they were not intended for. This lower frequency has less

energy and is less likely

to be as biologically active as higher frequencies (Riley 1998). See Item 5

below.

4. Health Canada erroneously claims that low levels of dirty electricity have

no biological effects, but

they provide no documentation to support their claim.

Studies show that people who have multiple sclerosis, type 1 and type 2

diabetics, chronic fatigue,

tinnitus, and symptoms of electromagnetic hypersensitivity have benefited

when the filters were used

to clean up their home or work environment (Havas and Stetzer 2004). We have

empirical evidence

that these filters work both in the sense of reducing dirty electricity and

improving health.

Diabetics had lower fasting glucose levels and required less insulin. Our

studies with diabetics were

independently replicated in Japan with similar results. According to Health

Canada an estimated two

million Canadians have diabetes and the cost of diabetes in Canada is

estimated to be up to $9 billion

annually. If even a small percentage of these diabetics could benefit by

cleaning up the dirty

electricity in their home/work/school environment, the savings in health care

could be considerable.

Multiple sclerosis patients had reduced tremors and some were able to walk

unassisted within a few

days to weeks after filters were installed in their homes. No other changes

were made in their diet or

medication during this period to account for these changes. We have

video-documented evidence of

these improvements. How does Health Canada explain this and what evidence do

they have to the

contrary to support the claims that dirty electricity is not biological

active? According to the Multiple

Sclerosis Society of Canada (2002) Canada has one of the highest rates of MS

in the world. An

estimated 50,000 Canadians have MS and 70% of people with MS are unable to

work 5-10 years after

they are diagnosed. A number of people with MS who have used the GS Filters

were able to continue

work or return to work after they reduced the dirty electricity in their

home/work environment. Their

improved quality of life, the reduced stress on family members, and their

ability to remain productive

members of society should be of enormous interest to Health Canada.

5. Health Canada claims that the GS filters produce dirty electricity at the

low frequency range and that

this dirty electricity may be harmful. How can they argue it both ways? At

first they claim that the

levels of dirty electricity are so low that they are not biologically active

and then they claim that the

filters produce low levels of dirty electricity that are harmful to health.

Energy is related to frequency and the higher the frequency the greater the

energy. Sixty kHz (60,000

Hz) has 1000 times more energy than 60 Hz. Also, frequencies above 1.7 kHz

begin to penetrate the

body (Riley 1998). Yet Health Canada claims that the lower frequencies,

purportedly generated by

the GS filters, have a greater biological effect with less energy and less

penetrating power. This is

GS Filters/Health Canada, Oct. 2006 mhavas@... page 4/5

contrary to logic. Dr. Don Hillman addresses this in greater detail in his

letter to Health Canada sent

earlier this year (2006).

6. Health Canada claims that the filters would increase our demand for

electricity requiring more

transmission facilities. The electricity provider will have additional

transmission losses due to the

continuous nature of this load in their distribution lines and transformers.

However, if manufacturers

of electronic equipment properly filtered their equipment and if the utility

distributed clean electricity

these filters would not be necessary.

Poor Power Quality

Dirty electricity is a serious utility concern. It costs industry in the

United States between 4 and 6 billion

dollars each year for dirty power (Fortune, June 5, 1999) and this does not

include the health costs.

Industry has long recognized this and they use large capacitors (filters)

because they require clean

electricity for proper functioning of their equipment. Power surges are

costly if they stop production and

damage equipment. Surge suppressors are used in homes and offices to protect

computers and other

sensitive equipment for the same reason.

The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has long

recognized the problems associated

with spurious radio frequencies (RF) and the electric utilities have filters

to mitigate this problem,

although they tend not to use them as often as they should (see Ontario

Hydro's own document, Power

Quality Reference Guide (1998).

According to the IEEE 519-1992, “Since most electronic equipment is located

at a low voltage level of is

associated power distribution system, it is frequently exposed to the effects

of voltage notching. Voltage

notches frequently introduce frequencies, both harmonic and nonharmonic, that

are much higher than

normally exhibited in 5 kV and higher voltage distribution systems. These

frequencies can be in the radio

frequency (RF) range, and as such, can introduce harmful effects associated

with spurious RF (page 39).â€

Poor power quality is a serious problem and both industry and the utilities

have filters to improve power

quality. Now a filter that plugs into an outlet and doesn't require an

electrician has been designed for the

home. The GS filter is a smaller version of the capacitors used by industry.

The GS filter protects

equipment from power surges and research shows that it helps people who are

sensitive to this form of

energy (Havas and Stetzer 2004). Surely the novel information here is not

that a filter can reduce dirty

electricity but that dirty electricity affects health. Isn't this what Health

Canada should be testing?

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

People, who are genuinely suffering from what they describe as electrical

hypersensitivity (EHS)3,

contact me from all over North America. We have been able to help a few of

those individuals who have

participated in studies. Countless others have also benefited from the

filters. They can't all be wrong. I

encourage Health Canada to test the health claims we make in our studies

because that is what is of

primary importance.

3 The World Health Organization (2004) describes electromagnetic

hypersensitivity (EHS) as: “ . . . a phenomenon

where individuals experience adverse health effects while using or being in

the vicinity of devices emanating electric,

magnetic, or electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Whatever its cause, EHS is a real

and sometimes a debilitating problem

for the affected persons . . . “

GS Filters/Health Canada, Oct. 2006 mhavas@... page 5/5

Estimates show that 3% of the population has electrical hypersensitivity

(EHS) and that an addition 35%

have symptoms of EHS (Philips and Philips 2006). That range accounts for

between 980,000 and 11

million Canadians who may be adversely affected by electromagnetic pollution

in its various forms. So

this is potentially a very serious health concern in Canada.

Dirty electricity is ubiquitous and getting worse because of the electronic

equipment we use and because

of the inadequacy of some of our power lines. Eventually the utility will

have to deal with this pollutant

and we hope it will be sooner rather than later so that fewer lives will be

destroyed because of the

insensitivity of the industry and their failure to adhere to their own

guidelines.

Health Canada should take a more proactive role in dealing with

electromagnetic pollution and electrical

hypersensitivity by informing doctors about the symptoms of EHS, testing the

products that claim to

work, establishing monitoring programs for electromagnetic pollution in

schools and elsewhere, and

providing Canadians with solutions through legislation to ensure that our

environment is as clean, safe,

and healthy as possible.

An offer to demonstrate how the filters work

Dave Stetzer, one of the co-inventors of the GS filter, would be willing to

demonstrate to Health Canada

how the filters work using the appropriate equipment. He makes this offer

because it is important for

Health Canada to be aware of the seriousness of this problem and to

understand how the filters work,

especially if they later decide to do some studies with human subjects.

I look foreword to a favorable response to Dave Stetzer's offer because I

assume that we are

interested in the same thing--the health of Canadians.

References

IEEE 1992. IEEE Recommended Practices and Requirements for Harmonic Control

in Electrical Power

Systems. Sponsors: Transmission and distribution committee of the IEEE Power

Engineering Society

and Static Power Converter Committee of the IEE Industry Applications

Society; Approved June 18,

1992 IEEE Standards Board; Approved January 4, 1993 American National

Standards Institute.

Gajda, G., A. Thansandote, E. Lemay, D. Lecuyer, W. Gorman, and J. McNamee.

2006. Report on

Evaluation of Stetzer Filters Consumer and Clinical Radiation Protection

Bureau, Health Canada.

available at: www.bccdc.org/content.php?.item=62

Havas M and Stetzer D. 2004. Dirty Electricity and Electrical

Hypersensitivity: Five Case Studies,

World Health Organization Workshop on Electrical Hypersensitivity, 25-26

October, Prague, Czech

Republic.

Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. 2002. On The Path to a Cure: From

Diagnosis to Chronic Disease

Management Brief Submitted to the Commission on the Future of Health Care in

Canada, March

2002, 7 pp http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca

Ontario Hydro. 1998. Power Quality Reference Guide, 3rd Edition, Ontario

Hydro.

Philips A and Philips J. 2006. The Power Watch Handbook. Piatkus Books Ltd.,

London. 294 pp.

Reilly, J.P. 1998. Applied Bioelectricity. Springer-Verlag, NY, 561 pp.

Stahlkopf, Karl. 1999. Cost of Dirty Power. Fortune, June 5, 1999.

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On 1/30/07, Alasdair Philips < alasdair@...> wrote:

That Health Canada (Gajda et al, 2006) Stezer Filter test report is

appalling - I am surprised that Health Canada put their name to it. It is a

very poor piece of work and the researchers didn't use appropriate testing

equipment or methods of testing to actually test the Stetzer filter

specifications. I would grade it a " fail " at final year undergraduate

electronics project level.

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On 1/30/07, K Byrne < kbyrne@...> wrote to a man who used the Health

Canada study to put down Stetzer's work:

I'm truly surprised how a man who claims to be an EMF expert can get things

so wrong.

The Stetzer filter is a capacitor, and any capacitor draws reactive current

and does not increase one's electrical bills. The filter does not create

higher frequencies either, it's designed to remove the higher frequencies

between 4 kHz to 100 kHz - frequencies in the dangerous radio frequency (3

kHz or greater) range. This is confirmed in the Heath Canada report you

noted in your email. I quote from the Health Canada report: " The Stetzer

filter is probably effective in attenuating high frequency (4 kHz to 100kHz)

noise on the AC power lines... "

Furthermore, in this biased piece of work Health Canada actually measured

the wrong frequency range, measuring only the less harmful 50 Hz to 5 kHz

frequeicies, as opposed to the higher more dangerous 4 kHz to 100 kHz

frequencies. An overlay totaling only 1% of the filters capability. They

also measured the input to the filter not the actual output. They didn't

measure the actual " result " of the filtration.

As far as creating a strong magnetic fields this is also wrong. Yes a GS

filter will produce a locally increased magnetic field that drops off

quickly with distance, but they do not produce high frequency radiation.

During your EMF workshop last year I let you borrow a Stetzer filter and

meter and your wife conducted a demonstration that showed the

magnetic field dropped to all the way zero only 10 inches from the filter.

So, unless you're sitting on it I doubt it would be much of an issue.

In your email you also state: " after we had mitigated in the entire house

electromagnetic pollution levels to safe ones. " Can you tell me what levels

of electromagnetic pollution is " safe? " Dr. Neil Cherry state the safe level

to RF is " zero " .

You state: " It is indeed cheaper and more health beneficial to simply solve

the wiring errors. " How exactly are you going to remove noise from a circuit

by correcting net current problems? Is there some secret wiring technique

you would like to share with us? Perhaps you're implying arcing is causing

all of this high frequency noise? This is not the case, it's caused

primarily by electronic devices that transform AC current to low-voltage DC

and by things like dimmer switches and devices that have variable speed

motors.

I suggest you speak with Dave Stetzer, you need to become better informed on

this important topic.

Byrne

www.EMFSolutions.ca

877 987-5185

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On , Aline wrote " You recommended 20 filters but I understand that

I need to put them

near the meter box so not quite sure how to do that. "

I'm sorry that I did not see your message till today, Aline. If you

ever wish to, you are welcome to e-mail me directly. I don't have time to

keep up with the list messages.

20 is the " average " number needed. Each house must be checked to see

how many it actually needs.

A few of the filters should be plugged in to both the A and the B line

from your breaker box, as near the box as possible. The reason for this is

to filter the electricity before it passes on through your house. This will

minimize the paths that will be contaminated with high frequencies, such as

your water pipes and phone lines.

If pipes and phone lines come near the incoming main, or the A or B line

before they can be filtered, the high frequencies will most likely be

broadcast from the pipes/phone lines throughout the house.

Some people have outlets installed on the A and B lines right by the

breaker box, so they can filter right there.

Regards,

Shivani

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