MIG welding with Implanted Cardiac Device

That's what I do too.

Mine has a foot pedal that shuts off the motor and stops the spindle with a brake. At threading speeds I can stop the spindle within a few degrees.

every angle, every

Not hardly, Bob. I didn't exactly proceed with a "watch this, hold my beer" approach, but I've had my butt kicked more than once by an angle it didn't occur to me to figure in.

Don,

Glad to hear all OK and you can enjoy some of the simple pleasures still. I would suggest if you want to do spot welding you might have someone else try it and do the field reading first. I've welded TIG, MIG, stick, many times and never had an issue with my analogue quartz watch but if wearing it while spot welding it always goes ballistic so I suspect the field is much higher.

had every angle, every

They fitted the darn thing with flat batteries :-)

Mark Rand RTFM

How do you charge that? Do you have to go in for battery replacements?

Wes

As does any good craps shooter!

Good thing MIG can't give you a kick like a TIG can. You'll know the first time you get hit with an AC jolt.

Steve

You don't charge it. They have to replace it. I'm curious to learn why, since it would be easy enough to charge by induction. I even understand that my unit has lithium ion batteries, which is a rechargable chemistry.

I may learn more in a couple of weeks. I've been invited to visit Boston Scientific, meet some of the engineers that designed my unit, and ask any questions I'd like.

Steve, are you talking about jolts from the welder itself, or jolts from an ICD triggered by the TIG? I've been welding for decades, not worried about the welders.

B-field with my TIG setup is well within safe limits but I'm still not sure about E-field from the HF.

I found a minor issue with my E-field probe so I modified it and re-calibrated it today, will take more data tomorrow with Mary holding the torch. She won't need to make a weld or even strike an arc.

Roger that! I definitely won't be getting within spittin' distance of an operating spot welder -- and I'm tawkin' ballistic gob here, not mere dweeby drool. Spot welders use north of 1000 amps. Major B-field.

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:36:38 -0600, the infamous Don Foreman scrawled the following:

So you're NOT going to be testing the battery charge in your IED, erm, ICD, Don?

-- I'm still waiting for another sublime, transcendent flash of adequacy. --Winnie of RCM

Not sure, Don. Was just shocked a few times by TIG process. Don't know about the fields they emit. May be a try it and see if you die thing.

Steve

Steve, was the shock delivered by the welder or by an implanted defibrillator?