High intensity light ballasts

I live in Oregon and have a company that builds greenhouses. I got my pacemaker a week ago and was just wondering... is it ok to work around 30 - 1000 watt high intensity light ballasts? Some are digital, some old fashioned magnetic, some are high pressure sodium, some Ceramic metal halide, some metal halide. If not what's a safe distace etc. ?

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It is safe if

by Good Dog - 2016-12-28 16:27:55

It is safe as long as you don't press yourself with your PM positioned directly against it. Even then it probably wouldn't be a problem, except maybe for the magnetic ballasts.

Thing is, as the manufacturers say, if something does interfere with you PM, simply move away. Any interference is only temporary. The worst that could happen is a magnetic field would put it into a fixed (magnet) rate. I've worked around lots of high voltage equipment and magnetic fields for many years and never had a problem. 

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