I keep getting emails from customers who’ve bought various infrared saunas from different retailers and sauna dealers, and they ended up ordering an emf meter from amazon to test their sauna after putting it together. When they find out the levels are higher than advertised, immediately they contact the sauna company… usually only to be told some dumb excuse like “your cell phone is making the sauna read high when you shoot the video.”
Complete nonsense!
Video Transcript (AI Generated)
Okay, so I’ve been getting a lot of questions from folks lately.
In fact, a lot of emails… let’s make sure that this is on airplane mode… everything’s off…
I’ve been getting a lot of emails, several actually, from different places and it appears as though sauna companies are suggesting that anyone that goes in a sauna, it doesn’t matter what EMF meter it is, but they’re using their cell phone to shoot the video of the EMF test, that the cell phone is causing the meter to read high and when in fact their sauna is not causing the EMF.
Almost 99.99999% of cases, that is 100% false.
The main thing that cell phones give off at any close distance, I’m sorry, at any long distance is going to be RF radiation.
So in saunas, we’re usually checking for magnetic and electric fields, not RF radiation.
However, the phone does produce some magnetic and some electric fields.
And what I want to show you is that these companies are using this as a way to get out of or make excuses for their sauna being high EMF.
And so right now I’ve got a Trifield TF2 which is an okay meter.
It’s fine, it’s what most people would have in their house.
And the cell phone itself is in airplane mode.
You should always use it in airplane mode when you’re taking videos, doing EMF testing or things like that, so that the phone itself doesn’t skew the numbers.
But what I want to show you is that even when it does skew the numbers, it’s such a minute amount, it’s so small that it cannot possibly make up the difference that people are suggesting.
For example, if you buy a sauna and the sauna company says that it’s guaranteed to be under 2 milligauss and you’re using your phone to record the video and it happens to make it go up 0.2, like 0.02 or something like that milligauss, that is not creating the magnetic field that you’re seeing in the sauna.
And when the sauna reads 6 or 8 milligauss, the phone, because you have to have it right up next to it for it to influence it, number one.
And for number two, you’re not going to get more than a 1 or 2 milligauss out of the phone, usually when it’s on airplane mode.
If you do, it’ll just be for a split second and it’s only when you can get the battery really, really close to the sensor.
And so if you’re taking videos when you’re doing the testing in your sauna and the phone is far away from it like this, and it’s an airplane mode, it’s really, if it does influence the levels at all, it’s not going to be a significant amount enough to skew everything.
And what I want to show you is even on, even if we get the battery and everything else in exactly the right place and like touching the meter, see if you can generate that same spike just by jumping, just by doing this.
So it’s impossible for us to create 2 or 3 milligauss with just the phone, just from shooting a video when they’re a foot apart recording.
So just wanted to debunk that.
Same thing for electric fields.
Some of the phones do have higher electric fields than the other, but again, it’s not going to enter, it’s not going to affect the readings more than 10 volts per meter.
And so usually in most of the infrared saunas, the phone could only, I don’t know, cause a skew of 3 or 4 volts per meter.
And the sauna is probably going to generate several hundred volts per meter.
And so just, you know, people saying that blah, blah, blah, you know, the phone or the way that you’re taking the videos, what’s causing an EMF or whatever.
But the only thing that I’m able to get a spike here on is like 30 or 40 volts per meter.
If you take this in a sauna that doesn’t have electric fields mitigated, and you stick this up to the carbon heater, or even a ceramic heater that doesn’t have a grounded heat shield in front, you’re going to get 800, 900, 1000 volts per meter.
And so the tiny amount that you can’t even force the phone to influence the meter is not enough to really account for, you know, you making an error, just using your phone to record the video.
So just want to make a video.
I’ve said this over and over an email, but it didn’t make any sense.
Hopefully this is thorough.
I mean, I’m kind of just saying the same thing over and over, but a lot of times people don’t get it until they actually see it.
So hopefully that will clear that up and people will be able to know when they’re spotting BS or when a customer, I’m sorry, when a customer is talking to a salesman after they purchased a sauna and it ends up not being low EMF and they’re testing it at home, you’ll be able to know right away that the guy’s feeding you a bunch of lines.
So hope that helps somebody out there.
So inevitably there’s going to be somebody that says, well, what happens when some people are taking readings and the phone is not an airplane mode or whatever, blah, blah, blah.
It’s, there is a difference, but it’s really just affecting it at super close range.
And the RF is affecting it.
Again, this is not like the most reliable meter in the world, but you will see a change.
You’ll see some spikes.
You’ll see some things here and there, even though in my opinion, that’s a misread.
But it is higher before, because before I was doing things like this and it would barely go over one milligauss.
Now it’s at almost three consistently, or the peak would be 7.9, but wouldn’t trust that.
But anyway, again, if it’s here, if it’s a foot away and you’re shooting the video, even with it, not in airplane mode, it’s not affecting anything that much.
So the sauna companies are just trying to get out of having to admit to you that, you know, the sauna that you purchased is not low EMF.