Calling all physicists! How does my computer interfere with my Chronos chess clock???

Unbelievably, it appears that when I move my Chronos chess clock close to my computer the touch sensors stop working. Anybody know why this is? Does the computer radiate some sort of magnetic or electric field that interferes with the buttons?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• chronos
• chess
• clock
• physics
• electricity
• magnetism
• computer
• interference

[mikiecbr]

The buttons respond to the change in capacitance. Since the macbook 's casing is a large piece of aluminium, the sensor cannot detect the variation caused by your finger.

[GMSamuelRhine]

@mikiecbr ah no wonder you barely have to touch the sensor, these things are great

[123RICEandSHINE]

Must be the magnets in the woofer

[tedkanode123]

thanks

[gavin32]

magnet of sub woofer?

[jacker372]

everything that runs on energy has an electromagnetic field so a computers electric field interferes with the one the you create . test it by making a mini electro-magnet

[Neuromancer1943]

Van Eck Phreaking

[dodgedurango12345678]

It's the magnetic field from the pc interfering with the clocks magnetic field. The same thing would probaly happen if u put it next to a playing speaker trust me nothing wrong with ur clock man

[charlieeasy]

I am having the same issue with my Chronos II when it is near an old Sony 4.5v transformer for for a radio. It was crazy making for a while and I thought I needed a new clock.

[archiemedes42]

My hypothesis: Apple was lazy again and didn't use cables where current flows both ways in the wires in the cable, so a magnetic field is created. I don't think there's any "interference." It's just Lenz's law...