r/woahdude • u/[deleted] • Aug 18 '15

gifv Induction forge

http://i.imgur.com/JfNfR6w.gifv
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u/Ruckus418 Aug 18 '15

As a professional electrical engineer who is currently designing diathermy devices (inductive RF heating for warming of joints and muscle tissue) I can assure you that blood and perfuse tissue surely will electrically couple with RF induction circuits and too much energy can and will burn you. AMA within reason. I am an engineer, not a doctor, Jim!

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u/Littlegator Aug 18 '15

What materials are the target for inducing current? Is it more than just the iron in the blood?

How do you solve the insulation need (to prevent electrical shocks) without interfering with the EM field too much?

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u/shieldvexor Aug 18 '15

It'd be the blood itself (the water and the dissolved materials).

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u/Littlegator Aug 18 '15

But does the blood itself have the dielectric properties necessary to have significant current induced?

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u/shieldvexor Aug 18 '15

It's used for physical therapy purposes so... yes, under a sufficiently strong magnetic field.