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Parisien

Parisien

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You know the signs up at petrol stations saying DO NOT USE MOBILE PHONES.....?

Do you know why?










Well, apparently this is because the pulsed phone transmission could interfere with the pumps metering.......ergo under read so you could be undercharged....hhhhmmmm....

This was in a letter in the S Times Driving section.


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CatmanV2

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Parisien said:
You know the signs up at petrol stations saying DO NOT USE MOBILE PHONES.....?

Do you know why?










Well, apparently this is because the pulsed phone transmission could interfere with the pumps metering.......ergo under read so you could be undercharged....hhhhmmmm....

This was in a letter in the S Times Driving section.


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Or over charged.....

It's a myth anyway.

C
 
CatmanV2

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Logically it's a myth. Everyone carries mobiles these days. They regularly contact the base station. So clearly with all those phones on the forecourt, all talking to their bases, when was the last time you saw *anything* get affected.

Extend it logically. Oxford street on a busy Saturday, before Christmas. Literally *millions* of phones, thousands of calls and texts. Was a single till, taxi meter, bus ECU, laptop, iPad, ANPR camera, non-analogue radio, traffic light, in short *any piece of electronics* affected?

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CatmanV2

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There is a possibly good reason, but I've never managed to have anyone who knows confirm it.

People are generally lousy at multi-tasking. So let them talk on the phone, and they'll be spraying petrol around before you know it. Also *if* you drop one, and *if* someone has left a pool of petrol lying around it *might* make a spark as the battery falls out which *might* make the whole lot go up. Or not. cf the bike magazine the dropped *** buts in pools of petrol with precisely no effect.

C
 
Andyk

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Parisien said:
You know the signs up at petrol stations saying DO NOT USE MOBILE PHONES.....?

Do you know why?










Well, apparently this is because the pulsed phone transmission could interfere with the pumps metering.......ergo under read so you could be undercharged....hhhhmmmm....

This was in a letter in the S Times Driving section.


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Great tip Frank....
 
drewf

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Fully agree with C. There's absolutely no real difference in the emissions from a mobile phone in the pocket, receiving txts and emails, updating its location, getting the latest weather etc over 3G, to one carrying voice. It used to be the case that very powerful analog phones could potentially upset the electronics in poorly constructed pumps, but I'm pretty sure there's nothing on a forecourt nowadays that would be affected.
 
Emtee

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The actual reasons phones are banned in petrol stations are two-fold.

Firstly they are not designed with this type of intrinsic safety built in to them. There is a theoretical (though minuscule) chance that a failure inside a phone could cause a spark. I work with solvent inks on large printing machines and we too ban phones within the direct vicinity of the machines for the same reason.

On this point the most dangerous thing in a petrol station, as several reports have shown, is static electricity from clothing and the reason we outfit our printers with non-static clothing.

The second reason, as with so many restrictions in our modern world, is the fear of being sued. By banning phones the petrol companies have covered themselves against the theoretical risk.

It's an old joke, but the most likely way to cause an explosion in a petrol station with a mobile phone is to rub two of them together.
 
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