Tips | Dirty Electricity

1) Replace all the dimmer switches in your house with regular switches. Even when turned completely on full power a dimmer chops-off part of the electrical current, then it discards in the form of a strong electromagnetic field. Dimmer switches also create dirty electricity that can contaminate an entire home’s electrical wiring with dangerous high frequency energy.

2) Avoid installing low-voltage halogen, florescent tubes and energy-efficient compact fluorescent lighting. Virtually all create dirty electricity and at the same time throw a nasty electromagnetic field.

3) When replacing your computer monitor or TV, buy a new LCD, they emit much less EM radiation.

4) Clean up the electrical power cords and transformers around your computer and desk and reroute them away from your feet and seating area, and never use a laptop PC on your lap. Buy shielded, twisted pair extension cords and computer cables at our online store.

5) Install 3-wire, twisted pair, shielded wire on any metallic lamps to reduce the antenna effects created by metal lamps. Buy shielded twisted pair cable for your lamps at our online store.

6) Check to see if you have a DECT cordless phone. DECT phones constantly transmit an RF signal, even when not in use sitting in the cradle. If you have one, get rid of it, or unplug it at night. Buy a detector at our online store.

7) Move baby cribs and beds a few feet away from walls containing electrical wires and don’t locate cribs or beds on walls opposite electronic equipment like computers, entertainment centre and clothes dryers and microwaves. Most walls do not block the magnetic field thrown by electronic devices.

8) Stand at least five feet away from microwaves when in operation; better still leave the room, even a properly functioning microwave can throw a strong electromagnetic field. A leaky one is even more dangerous.

9) Avoid installing new “energy efficient” devices or appliances that have variable speed drives in them like some furnaces, fans, heaters, front loading washing machines, etc. They all chop the sine wave creating high frequencies dirty electricity on the building’s electrical wiring. Even your trusty treadmill can be a big polluter.

10) Limit the time you spend talking on a cell phone, and only let children under 14 use cell phones for short periods of time when absolutely necessary. Use an "air tube" headset available at our online store. to drastically reduce (only 0.0009 w/kg. Vs. 1.5 w/kg.) the amount of radiation absorbed into the brain.

11) Install Graham/Stetzer filters in your home to reduce the harmful, high frequency radiation being radiated by your home’s electrical wiring.

12) If you or someone in your family is demonstrating symptoms of “Electrical Hypersensitivity”, or feel sick when in your home, or other indoor location you may want to consider having a dirty electricity home inspection and consultation

By Kevin Byrne, kbyrne@dirtyelectricity.ca, Phone 877 987-5185 and Dave Stetzer, Stetzer Electric