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touch. If contact is made, the energy transferred is so low that there is
no risk of injury.
• Potential risk for wearers of cardiac pacemakers:
Moving the chest closer than 3.5 cm to the emission tips of the
discharging bars or making surface contact with several emission tips
(touching a single tip is not critical) can result in a temporary switchover
of the cardiac pacemaker into the fault mode. Permanent proximity or
contact can therefore cause severe problems.
If it is likely that the chest of such a person comes closer than 3.5 cm to
the emission tips of the discharging bar, or if several emission tips are
touched at the same time, the appropriate warning notices must be dis-
played.
• The operation of the bars can generate ozone. The ozone concentra-
tion levels developing near the bars depend on many different factors
such as site of installation, bar current and voltage, air circulation, etc.,
and can therefore not be specified in general terms.
If the maximum allowable concentration of ozone must be observed at
the site of installation of the bar, the concentration must be measured
on site.
The AGW value (maximum admissible concentration) serves to assess
the ozone concentration at the workplace. The user must make sure
that the appropriate national AGW value is at no times exceeded, e.g.
in Germany the ozone concentration occurring during the operation of
the system must not exceed the recommended value based on interna-
tional limits of 0.06 ml/m³ (0.12 mg/m³).
• Mechanical or electrical modifications of the discharging bars are not
permitted.
