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More electrostim excitement ensued. Once again, driving signal generator output backwards through a transformer extracted from a wall-wart into 3M red dots on our valiant experimenter. | More electrostim excitement ensued. Once again, driving signal generator output backwards through a transformer extracted from a wall-wart into 3M red dots on our valiant experimenter. | ||
Skin resistance. We tested this after the other tests, and found that the resistance started low and climbed. These numbers are about when we got sick of waiting for it to stabilize. Mikolaj: 55 kOhms, Orion: 50 kOhms, Mike: 116 kOhms, Rachel: 300 kOhms | |||
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Revision as of 14:45, 2 August 2009
Electrostim
More electrostim excitement ensued. Once again, driving signal generator output backwards through a transformer extracted from a wall-wart into 3M red dots on our valiant experimenter.
Skin resistance. We tested this after the other tests, and found that the resistance started low and climbed. These numbers are about when we got sick of waiting for it to stabilize. Mikolaj: 55 kOhms, Orion: 50 kOhms, Mike: 116 kOhms, Rachel: 300 kOhms
Subject | V | mA | f | Perception |
---|---|---|---|---|
MikeW | 11 | 0.5 | 60 | initial sensation |
MikeW | 14 | 0.6 | 60 | Definitely feel tickle |
MikeW | 18 | 0.9 | 60 | muscle contractions (bordering on v. uncomfortable) |
MikeW | 22 | 1.2 | 60 | stops being fun |
Rachel | 6 | 0.15 | 60 | initial sensation |
Rachel | 12 | 0.5 | 60 | can distinguish brief pulses |
Rachel | 14 | 0.9 | 60 | distinct buzzing and less precise location sensation when tapping |
Rachel | 16 | 1.0 | 60 | muscle twitches in hand |
Rachel | 18 | 1.25 | 60 | distinctly uncomfortable |
Orion | 7 | 0.2 | 60 | initial sensation |
Orion | 10 | 0.5 | 60 | distinct sensation |
Orion | 15 | 1.0 | 60 | strong muscular influence |
Mikolaj | 7 | 0.2 | 60 | can feel it |
Mikolaj | 11 | 0.7 | 60 | sharp tingling sensation |
Mikolaj | 13.5 | 0.9 | 60 | pins & needles |
Mikolaj | 17 | 1.2 | 60 | can't straighten middle finger. done! |
Mikolaj | 11.5 | 0.9 | 80 | slightly more pronounced than at 60 Hz |
Mikolaj | 13 | 0.9 | 120 | not huge difference with 80 Hz |
Mikolaj | 9 | 0.6 | 5 | feels like 5 Hz tapping |
Mikolaj | 7 | 0.4 | 10 | starts to feel like tapping |
Mikolaj | 12.5 | 1.0 | 10 | uncomfortable |
Mikolaj | 11 | 1.1 | 7 | finger twitches at 7Hz |