Pacemaker Club: Induction Range

Induction Range

by boochance
2011-01-26 05:01:39
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I just purchased an induction range not even thinking about my one year old pacemaker. Most of the research I just did on line implies no problem. Figured the smart people in the PM club would have the best information. May I enjoy my new stove in peace?

5 Comments

Enjoy your new stove ...

by admin - 2011-01-26 07:01:51

Why not bake yourself a cake to celebrate your pacer anniversary. Induction ovens are safe.

Blake

Had the same Q

by ccmoore - 2011-01-26 08:01:17

I had the same Q a month or so back about induction burners, but I didn't get any comments.

I have been out of work since last April [licensed civil engineer since 1977], so I started culinary schooling. Have taken about 2 weeks of classes and have been offered a cooking job in a small non-chain eatery. Not great pay but it is a job. Just this afternoon I stopped by the eatery and saw a boiling water demo on an induction burner, no problems with my PM/ICD and I was standing right in front of the burner.

I like you did some internet research and came to the same conclusion.

Induction Range

by boochance - 2011-01-26 08:01:55

Thank you for your comments admin amd ccmoore. I will feel relaxed when my new stove is delivered.

Used one last year, no problem

by SaraTB - 2011-01-27 02:01:53

I spent a month at a house last year, using an induction cooktop daily, with no ill effects at all. I'm 100% paced and very sensitive to changes in my heartrate - I didn't notice anything at all.

Enjoy your new appliance!

Induction Range Top

by donr - 2011-01-27 09:01:14

You should have no problem UNLESS - you lie down w/ your PM right on the burner! I doubt if you could stand the heat, so get out of the kitchen .

My experience w/ high intensity 60 Hertz AC fields:

Two weeks after getting my PM, I had to climb up into the rafters in my shop. While passing between two of them, my PM came w/i 2 or 3 inches of the 220 volt, 30 amp cable going to our water heater. I darned near fell off the ladder! The field temporarily shut down my PM!

Electric /magnetic fields fall off very quickly w/ distance & you should have no problems. I routinely work around 220 volt house wiring that is energized w/ no ill effect - but I am NEVER as close to the cables as when I went through the rafters that day.

Now that I am an old hand - PM since 2003 - I recognize the feeling as the same as that when they place the magnetic hockey puck over my PM to download it or run a test where they shut it down for a few seconds.

Don