Measuring EMF in your infrared sauna: Saunray customer question
Trifield TF2: https://amzn.to/2I1bMHt
Voltmeter: https://amzn.to/2NR3Bku
Grounded cord: https://amzn.to/2LsUjIx
How to test your infrared sauna for emf levels.
Video Transcript (AI Generated)
All right, today’s question is going to be on sonneray saunas.
This is for Delphine.
Hopefully I pronounced that right.
Sorry if not It says hi there I own a two-person sonneray and I’ve been trying to find more detailed information regarding their heaters What kind of measuring tools can I get to measure the different types of harmful energies?
I would like to know if there are safe levels.
Thanks Yeah, I can help you with the meters.
I have a bunch of them up here just to show you some things It’s gonna be the same whether whatever sauna you want to measure you’re gonna need the same tools.
You’re gonna be measuring the same things I’ll explain what each of them are and then make a recommendation for a couple meters that you can buy I’ll put links to those in the YouTube description So you don’t have to worry about like pausing the video and trying to write down the name of the meter or the model number the other thing I was gonna tell you is if you don’t want to buy stuff a Sauna ray has the same ceramic heaters in it that a therasona has so if you go watch my therasona review video You can kind of get an idea of what kind of EMF is in there I don’t think I was testing body voltage on camera or maybe even electric fields back then but you can get an idea of the magnetic fields Usually if the heaters are exactly the same as a therasona, there’s gonna be 8 to 12 milligauss just out in front of the heaters Electric fields are a couple hundred volts per meter, but they have a grounded cage in front of them I don’t know if sauna ray grounds their cage.
I haven’t tested one there in Canada I don’t have access to them You can go and see some of the other videos that I’ve put out on sauna ray saunas about that I don’t think it’s a bad sauna, even though I haven’t been in it.
I’m speculating but still my opinion I can kind of gauge it just because I’ve tested so many saunas If you’re in the market for a new sauna, I probably wouldn’t buy a sauna ray There’s probably a better option out there But if you already have one, I don’t think it’s gonna be harmful enough for you to want to get rid of it But that’s for you to decide.
Let me show you what I would recommend as far as measuring it So in a sauna ray, you get ceramic heaters.
You’re gonna want to measure three things Electric fields magnetic fields and body voltage the easiest, you know, obviously I use different meters for everything So for example, this is an RF meter.
This is a gauss meter to measure Magnetic fields.
This is a combo 3 meter.
This is a very inaccurate meter What else do we have we’ve got an electric field meter by itself But what I would recommend for you, it doesn’t have to be like the world’s most accurate thing It just has to be affordable and pretty good for you to get an idea of what’s going on I would recommend the TF2 so you can do magnetic so you’ll get actually it’s not gonna show that on the screen.
Is it?
Come on camera.
Well, you can’t see it, but you’ll be able to do magnetic electric And RF with this although I wouldn’t test stuff I wouldn’t test Wi-Fi and other types of RF radiation with this and think that it’s accurate but magnetic and electric.
It’s fairly accurate It’s about a hundred and sixty five dollars on Amazon.
There’ll be a link to it in the YouTube description this will allow you to test the heaters for Magnetic fields which will be in milligauss and also electric fields which will be in volts per meter The other thing that I would do is get yourself a volt meter.
So I’ll put a link to one I’ll do a search for you on Amazon I’ll put a link to one in the YouTube description, but a lot of times in the videos you see me with a Really thick brass handheld Contraption it’s attached to a higher end voltmeter than this but this is a cheap one and this is what I would recommend you get because Really?
The other thing is like a hundred and fifty dollars for the kit.
And yes, it’s more accurate when you have a brass handheld It’s more conductive But it’s really overkill for the average homeowner It’s not really worth the money so you can get something like this for twenty to forty dollars and it’ll have leads on it Let me show you So it’ll look like this.
It’s a regular voltmeter.
So you’ll be able to You’ll be able to check body voltage by Connecting the black to ground and then just holding the red prong in your fingers I can’t do it here because I’m not set up to do that But basically you’ll see the change on the screen if I can hold it just right so you can see that You’ll see the numbers on the screen.
Ideally you want it to be under 200 volts per meter or 200 I’m sorry.
I just told you the wrong thing.
You want it to be under 200 millivolts Which would be 0.2 volts And that’ll give you a good idea of what the body voltage is in that sauna One thing that may make it easier for you is if you order One of these so this is basically a grounding plug It’s got a little alligator clip on the other end of the wire so you can hook that to the black lead that comes off the voltmeter and Then now you have something that’s longer to work with and you just stick this in the ground plug of your outlet and that’ll ground The meter and allow you to move it around.
There’s like 15 feet of cord here So that might make things easier.
Another variation of that is just one of these ground plugs where you’re just plugging it into an outlet the only thing these are plastic so they’re non-conductive and Then you just clip your little alligator clip onto the front and that gives you a ground for the meter That’s what I would recommend It’s not unique to sauna ray saunas.
You just happen to ask about that for anybody that wants to test infrared saunas This is probably like the cheapest DIY setup Like I say you can get this meter for $165 or so Usually on Amazon you can get the one of these maybe not this exact one This is like 10 years old, but a fluke voltmeter usually 20 30 40 bucks So all in your 200 bucks or less and I would recommend buying this stuff on Amazon I have ordered meters and stuff from other places some people like less EMF and all kinds of other places like that But last time I ordered something from there.
It took five months to get it and I really wasn’t too pleased with the customer service So I usually just get stuff on Amazon these days if you wanted to get more advanced I’ve got other videos that talk about different EMF meters You can buy you know RF specific meter.
That’s a lot more sensitive.
Like I said, this is not really Accurate for measuring cell phones smart meters Wi-Fi things like that You’d want to get something like this if that’s primarily what you’re doing, but as a general rule for most people Not I don’t even know if sauna ray has Wi-Fi or Bluetooth in the sauna, so it would kind of be a waste for you to spend all that money for the average homeowner This is this is a decent little setup.
So hope that helps Delphine.
Have a great day.
We’ll see you in tomorrow’s video