This Clearlight sauna review is on the Clearlight Premier IS-2. This is the number one requested sauna review from you guys over the last 6 months. It’s the largest 2 person sauna Clearlight makes, that still works on a 15 amp circuit so you can set it up without having to call in an electrician.
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I test all emf levels, including RF, Magnetic fields, Electric fields, and body voltage levels. This sauna tests very well compared to most on the market, and I give it a thumbs up for safety. It is indeed, a true ultra low emf sauna.
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Video Transcript (AI Generated)
Alright, today we’re in a Clearlight Premier IS-2, which is probably the most requested sauna that I’ve been asked over the last six months, eight months, to do EMF testing on.
So this sauna is not in my native testing environment.
This is not my sauna.
I just got a hold of one and was able to try it out and test it for you guys and make videos.
I’ve already gone through this sauna preliminary, but what I did do, I’m going to take some extra time and really take my time and measure this sauna.
We’re going to make sure there’s not ambience in the room.
Usually I do this very, very quickly when it’s in my own native testing environment because I’m familiar with all the stuff that’s in the room.
So right now we’re going to take a baseline.
This is with the sauna off and the sauna is unplugged.
So I’m not familiar with this testing environment, so we’re just going to run through, make sure there’s no strange RF.
There was a Wi-Fi router just on the other side of this wall and I didn’t want that to skew any of the testing, whether or not this sauna has Bluetooth or a smartphone controller.
I don’t believe it has any of those things, but I still test for it all the time.
So I went ahead and did a preliminary test, disabled all that stuff.
So now we’re going to start fresh with some baselines.
Let me see if I can zoom in here so that you guys can see this.
I don’t know if I’m going to have to take the camera off, but just sitting in the sauna, you can see that we have little to no RF.
There’s little to no RF and if I can read that backwards, I cannot.
There is about 0.6, so that’s the ambient.
So just to be clear, to be fair to Clearlight, anything above 0.6, you would want to subtract 0.6.
That’s the ambient in the room that this house is creating.
It has nothing to do with the sauna.
The sauna is not plugged into the wall.
The lights aren’t even on.
I’ve got supplemental lighting so that you guys can see me and that’s why it’s so hard to read.
Cornet is about the same and then tri-field.
There’s probably some electric fields and a little dirty electricity in this house or in this room for this building.
And so I would imagine that the tri-field is picking up on a little bit of that.
Let’s see if it’ll focus.
It will not.
It wants to focus on my face.
And let’s take some preliminary body voltage measurements just out of curiosity.
So we’ve got, I believe it’s 0.4, so about 400 millivolts or 370, 380, something like that.
Make sure there’s nothing grounded here.
Yeah, so about 300 actually. 300 millivolts or 0.3 volts.
So let’s go ahead and I’m probably going to pause the video really quick and I’m going to go ahead and plug the sauna back in, get the lights turned back on, do all that stuff.
And I’ll see you in just one second.
All right, let’s get this bad boy turned on.
We’ve got the lights on.
One feature that I really like about both the Radiant Health sauna and also this ClearLight Premier is that the control panel is both on the inside and the outside of the sauna.
And one of my gripes about some of the other saunas is they let you turn the inside lights on and the outside lights on, both independent of each other and without having to power on the sauna.
So for me, when I’m testing, sometimes I want to come in the sauna and take out the stuff that the people had in here or whatever.
And it’s nice to be able to turn the lights on or if I’m preheating the sauna or something like that and not have the heat come on yet, which not all saunas allow you to do that.
I don’t know if you care about something like that, but to me, it definitely makes a difference.
Okay, so we’ve got the sauna powered on.
Let’s give it a second to start kicking into gear here.
I’ll wait until we start to feel a little bit of heat and we’ll start the EMF testing.
Let’s restart the acoustometer, see if there’s any RF spikes from Bluetooth or anything else like that.
Which there does appear to be something.
It seems minimal.
Not a big deal.
Very low levels.
I don’t see any changes in magnetic fields just yet.
Obviously, I’m going to take the camera off and we’re going to go throughout the whole sauna, but I just want to give it a second to start warming up, make sure that things are preheated.
Let’s do a preliminary body voltage test now that the sauna is on.
We know that we had 0.4 or 0.3, I believe.
See if that changes.
It does.
Okay, so the sauna is definitely kicked in now and it is on and going.
We had 0.4 before and now I believe we have, let’s say 0.6.
It’s fluctuating between 0.63 and 0.67, so I would call that 0.65, but we would just call it 600 millivolts to be exact.
If you subtract the ambient, which was 400 millivolts from 600, we’ve got about 200 millivolts or 0.2 volts.
That is very, very good.
A lot of saunas on the market don’t have body voltage or electric fields mitigated at all.
My back is starting to heat up.
The sauna has been on for a minute and a half.
I don’t think we’re going to see much more of a spike than that.
Obviously, if I keep moving around, you could have 0.68, 0.69 versus 0.61 or 0.62, but as a general rule, it’s about 600 millivolts minus the 400 ambient, which gives us about 200.
That is right below my threshold.
I think that’s very good.
Clearly, the electric fields in this sauna are mitigated.
Let’s see what the electric fields are exactly.
If you’ll notice or if you’ve been paying attention, I was hoping that you are, we didn’t do electric field measurements for the prelims because without electricity going to the heaters, there won’t be any.
There’s no reason to do that.
Let’s see if there are any electric fields.
There really aren’t.
It’s 0.09, 0.05, 0.07.
I’m going to give you guys a zoom in on that in a second.
I’m just testing it real quick just to see if there’s anything that we should investigate further or specifically look at.
I found a hot spot, 40 volts per meter.
Let’s double check that.
We never just go by one meter.
No, that’s about right, 50, 60 volts per meter.
That’s pretty good.
There’s a little hot spot there, but as you’ll see when I’m about to take the camera off the tripod and bring you in here with me, hot spots aren’t really a big deal as long as they dissipate by the time it gets to the body.
The fall off rate is very large.
Now let’s come in the sauna and you can see what I see.
Now we’re in the sauna.
Let me make sure that we’re zoomed all the way out here.
The sauna is on.
We’ve got it set to its maximum temperature just so you can see what I see.
I reset the time so we don’t expire on anything and there is heat coming out of the sauna so it is good to go.
This is the inside of a Clearlight Premier IS-2 by the way.
Control panel both on the inside and the outside.
That’s very nice.
Very similar to Radiant Sauna.
I love the fact that it has the ceramic tile on the floor.
You never have to worry about sweating on the wood or putting towels down or anything like that in a lot of the other saunas.
It does have frontal infrared which is pretty cool.
The panels aren’t as big as some of the older saunas that I was in in the past but at least it is there.
We’ve got the little side heaters, we’ve got the calf heaters, we’ve got full size back heater insides which is pretty good.
The top of the sauna is well made.
No splintering on the milling or anything like that.
So let’s get into the EMF testing.
It’s definitely cranking out some heat now.
I’m going to start with the standard array that I usually use.
We’ll reset this and make sure that these are all set.
Put the tri-field on magnetic.
Now remember we had ambience in here in the past so when we first fired up in this room there were no magnetic fields in excess of 0.6 so you’d want to subtract about 0.5 from any readings that we get in here.
This was around 2 so you’d want to pay attention to that.
So right up on the heaters, let’s just go in with it.
There’s hardly any RF even registering in the sauna so if there is bluetooth or wifi and it’s pulsing or if it’s something else in here it’s not within the harmful range.
I wouldn’t worry about it.
Right on the heaters we’ve got 1.3 but again it’s 1.3 minus about 5 so that’s about 0.75 or 0.8 at the most.
No spikes from the cornet.
Granted this is a directional meter so you’d really want to flip it around in order to get the true reading.
And the tri-field.
The tri-field shows about an increase of 1 mG or less.
I don’t trust the tri-field really.
I talk a lot about that in other videos.
So that would be testing for magnetic fields.
Let’s just do a sweep in other parts of the sauna.
I’m doing my very best here to not make this shaky but I don’t have any help on hand.
Ok so there’s a hot spot.
People ask about that a lot.
What if they find a hot spot in their sauna?
Well here’s the definitive answer.
I am shoving this thing right up into the heaters where your body is never going to be.
So what I would suggest is that you come out an inch or two and make sure that it drops below 1 mG and if so I wouldn’t really worry about it that much.
We’re going to double check this and check the electric fields but just as a general rule just because you find a hot spot in a sauna doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s coming from the sauna itself.
Sometimes it can be the power cord or things next to the sauna.
And just in general hot spots aren’t that big of a deal as long as they don’t extend out into the bench.
And so I test everything.
I test your legs, where your feet go.
Another thing that I really test and I’m a stickler for is levels on the bench.
So bench levels we’ve got .4.
Let me zoom in for you guys. .4.
Let’s check by the backrest.
We’ve got .4 still.
Now usually I can find, you know, I’ve been doing this so long I can find a hot spot somewhere in a corner.
You know somewhere probably between 1 and 3.
But again as long as there’s a fall off rate and it goes down by the time it’s going to be in the position where you’re sitting it’s not an area of concern.
So like here we’ve got a hot spot of 1.8 but we come out less than an inch and it’s cut in half.
Not an area of concern.
Let’s just check everything here.
Let’s check the front heaters.
Sometimes front heaters can read differently than back heaters or side heaters.
These do not.
Let’s check these side heaters.
Those are fine.
We come out an inch and a half.
It’s down to .4.
Let’s check the floor.
A lot of times there can be EMFs in the floor from power supplies and things like that.
They’re unshielded.
A lot of the cheaper saunas you’ll find spikes right on the floor because the power cable is routed underneath it to go to the power supply underneath the seat.
Now we don’t have any of that in this sauna which is great.
And let’s just check a couple other things.
Like I said I’m probably the biggest stickler when it comes to EMF in saunas.
I’m also getting hot.
I want to check the control panel.
Make sure there’s nothing here.
And then I also check lighting and the roof.
Now there is a little bit of EMF near the roof.
We’ve got 3.5 but again let’s come down a couple inches and make sure it drops off.
It does.
So I’m still above head level.
Let’s come down to head level.
We’re at .4.
That’s excellent.
Obviously speakers are going to have a magnetic field from the magnets.
But again you come down 5 or 6 inches and it dissipates into nothing.
So that’s all good.
I’m very impressed with that.
Let me zoom out here.
Let me shut these meters off.
And let’s do an electric field test.
One of the biggest things that is not mitigated in most saunas is electric fields.
So I want to see where the electric fields are at in this sauna.
So I’m going to take my most trusted meter first which is the Gigahertz Solutions.
Let’s see if we can find any.
Yeah we’ve got some spikes in here.
There’s a spike there of about 100 millivolts.
I mean granted I shouldn’t be shoving it past the netting.
There’s a flexible netting here.
I should be on the outside of the…
I should be up against the wood really.
Even though the sensor in this particular meter is not right there.
But as an average we get about 40 volts per meter in that hot spot.
It’s different on other parts of the sauna.
Let’s go ahead and check some other key areas.
Now see this one I can shove in past the grate there and it’s only… hardly any actually.
This is very good.
Very very good.
Generally saunas would have about 800 volts per meter.
We’re sitting at about 20 so that’s excellent.
Let’s check the corners where it usually compounds.
Only got about 57.
That’s really good.
And you want to keep in mind that this is just shoved in the corner.
We come out just a little bit and it dissipates into nothing.
And you would see high body voltage readings if this wasn’t the case.
Let’s check right at our back.
We should check here too.
About 10.
That’s pretty normal for a mitigated sauna.
Again in an unmitigated electric field sauna…
I’m sorry, in an unmitigated sauna the electric field levels would be around 600, 800, 1200 even.
And again there’s a hot spot wherever the cable comes into the back of the emitter.
But if you come out those 2 inches dissipates which is great.
So let’s double check this.
I don’t want to just take one meters word for it.
Let’s double check this with the TF2.
Not my favorite meter but a good backup.
About 10 volts per meter.
Where was that hot spot that we found?
Here it is.
So we get about 60 volts per meter.
That’s within range of the gigahertz.
But we come out 2 inches and it’s down to nothing.
So now the way that you’ll know if this is a problem.
If hot spots are a problem in a sauna and they don’t dissipate with distance and they’re high enough level to where it’s really going to affect somebody.
What will happen is the body voltage will go up.
You’ll have high body voltage levels.
And so that’s why I check all of this stuff.
That’s why everything matters.
Let’s check these where I got low levels.
Also low levels.
And again this is a little inconsistent.
You know it’s higher here with the TF2 than it is on the gigahertz.
But yet where it was low it’s lower here than it was with the gigahertz.
So that’s why you use multiple meters.
Take things with a grain of salt.
This is very good.
Again it would be showing 800 to 900 volts per meter and we’re at 30.
Let’s double check the control panel. 20 is good.
Let’s go ahead and check the roof where the power is for the lights and everything else.
That is excellent.
That’s very very good.
So as a final and behind us we’ve got hardly any which is great.
Right at the backrest.
I mean I’m touching it.
So 2 volts per meter.
That’s really good.
We’ve got 5 or 6 in the corners.
And just like the gigahertz we can generate a spike if we find a hot spot in the corner.
But again we’re shoving the meter in where your body won’t fit.
If you come out to where it does it dissipates.
So all excellent.
Now the final test for me is to double check body voltage.
I want it to be under 200 volts per meter.
And we’re at about let’s see .4 which is better than before which is weird if I do say so myself.
Let me move this to make sure I’m not doing anything funky.
Because when you move around it can generate different levels.
So let’s put that down there.
Zoom.
If we can see it.
There we go.
So we’ve got 470 something millivolts which is different than it was before but it also matters if I’m moving around.
So like for instance if I lean back up against the heaters you’ll see the levels change versus if I move forward it changes things a little bit.
That’s why I don’t use this as a hard and fast rule.
I usually just go by 400 millivolts or I think the highest we had was 700.
That is well within my threshold for electric fields and body voltage.
I would personally give this sauna a thumbs up as far as EMF levels go.
I’m very happy with it.
I like what I see.
We’ve got all these meters on hand to double check everything.
I’m going to go ahead and turn the power off though because I’m going to start sweating.
I’m trying to think if there’s anything else relating to EMF that anyone would want to know.
I think I covered everything.
We double checked all the levels.
We double checked the body voltage.
We took ambient levels before even powering on the sauna so we know there’s nothing crazy in the room.
I would give this sauna a thumbs up.
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Otherwise, go to cleverleverage.com, my blog, and just search for the list of certified saunas.
Again, if there’s something else that you want to know about the Clearlight Premier, ask it in the YouTube comments below or just find the blog post for Clearlight Premier Review and let me know there.
Let me know what you’d like to see in the next video and tomorrow we’ve got another sauna to test.