Picking up fields from transmission lines?
This is just a curious question: I'm going to be moving to a place close to high-tension transmission lines, and I am wondering if I try to implant a magnet there in the future, would I be able to feel the transmission lines from the get-go?
Has anyone here felt the fields around transmission lines? If so how far can you usually pick it up?
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Conclusion: You may be able to pick them up, chances are you'd have to get dangerously close tho. The humming sound from the transmission lines, due to the cables attracting/repulsing each other, will probably be way more annoying.
AndrewR may have experienced other phenomena than transmission lines. Such as subway power lines (where current return path may take quite some detour and fields won't cancel out), transformers (which sometimes leak magnetic flux quite a bit) or simmilar. Even if you apply the exprience ~5m is not the average person's safety distance you'd want to keep to nearly half a million volt.
I then took my phone and showed him that standing essentially in a very electricity devoid area that there is no readings then did the same near the lines where the house was and it was just barely any increase. I don't fully trust the accuracy of the numbers it reads out in the app but it does show increase and decrease.
I tested it with a speaker to see if it would change and it did. This was done on an iPhone. Also I don't have a magnet implant this was regarding the actual feel of it when there is high power like when you are near transformers or large battery banks. The hair standing up feeling.