Over the years I’ve found\u00a0that electric wheelchairs can build a large amount of static electricity. \u00a0Quite often this charge would be dispelled when my chair would come into contact with the metal of elevator doors, metal doorways or other such metal structures. \u00a0This proved particularly interesting during my time in college.<\/p>\n
While attending college at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP), I had a particularly interesting experience in the campus cafeteria, Debot. \u00a0The main level of the cafeteria was upstairs, requiring me to take an elevator up. \u00a0The elevator was behind a closed door with an electric door assist. \u00a0The doorway\u00a0to the area had a metal door-frame. \u00a0When my chair would come into contact with the metal of the doorway a spark would jump from the chair’s foot rest to the door frame, and the door assist would activate and the door would open.<\/p>\n
Many times while joining friends for lunch or dinner at the cafeteria, I would pull a fun trick on them. \u00a0I would gracefully glide up to the doorway, just enough for the foot rest to make contact with the doorway to the elevator room. \u00a0The door would then mysteriously open, as if by magic. \u00a0My friends had no idea how I was performing this feat. \u00a0They would jump up and down waving their hands in front of the doorway, thinking there must be some motion sensor. \u00a0Others suspected I had been given a remote to the door. \u00a0I would just glibly apply “It’s MAGIC!”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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