01-05-2012, 12:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-05-2012, 12:41 AM by Concillian.)
I must be in real trouble.
I hang around unshielded electromagnets that produce 1000 - 5000 Gauss fields all day long.
One of the guys I work with has been working feet from these kinds of magnetic fields for 35 years. I guess he's going to die soon... but then again most people who have been working for 35 years will die "soon" (of old age).
just so you know, the above is true, but in relation to the topic, just in jest, since the frequencies of the fields I deal with are nowhere near RF frequencies.
Anyway. Gauss is magnetic field density and mV per meter is electric field strength... These are different things, which is why you aren't finding a conversion.
The meter should also have a magnetic field strength measurement. Which, of course is probably not in convenient units like Oersted <...checks manual for your device...>. Indeed, it's in Amperes per meter.
Oersted is the measure of magnetic field strength I'm most familiar with and most sane people work in, since 1 Oe = 1 Gauss if permeability is 100%. Makes things easy... everyone likes easy. I'm pretty sure the body is pretty close to 100% permeable, so that gets you to Gauss if we just convert Amperes per meter into Oersted:
<insert google-fu>
and apparently that is 0.004 * Pi or 0.0126.
I should clarify that I deal with the scientific side of these magnetic fields, and I've encountered "unconventional" conversions between incompatible units in safety regulations, so there may be some other way that the safety guys do this. I've only done the obvious conversion of like units to get to Gauss. There may be some weirdness that the safety guys do to take into account the electric field effects as well.
I hang around unshielded electromagnets that produce 1000 - 5000 Gauss fields all day long.
One of the guys I work with has been working feet from these kinds of magnetic fields for 35 years. I guess he's going to die soon... but then again most people who have been working for 35 years will die "soon" (of old age).
just so you know, the above is true, but in relation to the topic, just in jest, since the frequencies of the fields I deal with are nowhere near RF frequencies.
Anyway. Gauss is magnetic field density and mV per meter is electric field strength... These are different things, which is why you aren't finding a conversion.
The meter should also have a magnetic field strength measurement. Which, of course is probably not in convenient units like Oersted <...checks manual for your device...>. Indeed, it's in Amperes per meter.
Oersted is the measure of magnetic field strength I'm most familiar with and most sane people work in, since 1 Oe = 1 Gauss if permeability is 100%. Makes things easy... everyone likes easy. I'm pretty sure the body is pretty close to 100% permeable, so that gets you to Gauss if we just convert Amperes per meter into Oersted:
<insert google-fu>
and apparently that is 0.004 * Pi or 0.0126.
I should clarify that I deal with the scientific side of these magnetic fields, and I've encountered "unconventional" conversions between incompatible units in safety regulations, so there may be some other way that the safety guys do this. I've only done the obvious conversion of like units to get to Gauss. There may be some weirdness that the safety guys do to take into account the electric field effects as well.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.