E-Meters

[exbritscino]

Wait ... are they playing your song?

I'm not the one who's paid out good money for some shit that doesn't do anything.........

 

[haiqu]

I'm not the one who's paid out good money for some shit that doesn't do anything.........

That's absolutely right. It doesn't, and you're not.

 

[haiqu]

The Mk Super VII Quantum has arrived. It's in absolutely perfect, collector condition with 100% correct alignment. I've never seen a better e-meter. Apart from missing solo adapters for the cans I can't fault it.

Very pleased indeed.

 

[Xenu Xenu Xenu]

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Write up:
Came across this at a yard sale and offered $10 for it with a couple of other pieces of crap. Googling around, looks like the "Mark V" is a box with a few transistors inside, produced in the 60s and 70s. It has the cord and the clips for the electrodes, but the cans themselves were not included. I guess I could just attach some tin cans to it...and then Anyway, I've got an unauthorized e- here. If I disappear, check the Scientology yacht or possibly space volcano. Xenu forever yo

I could see yanking out the innards and turning it into a radio, tv, laptop, tablet, box for chess pieces, or a place to stash your cannabis. At ten bucks it is like Scientology, a steal.

 

[PirateAndBum]

https://imgur.com/a/zPLdkpe

https://imgur.com/Lpbsqgy

https://imgur.com/jgOYxPi

Write up:
Came across this at a yard sale and offered $10 for it with a couple of other pieces of crap. Googling around, looks like the "Mark V" is a box with a few transistors inside, produced in the 60s and 70s. It has the cord and the clips for the electrodes, but the cans themselves were not included. I guess I could just attach some tin cans to it...and then Anyway, I've got an unauthorized e- here. If I disappear, check the Scientology yacht or possibly space volcano. Xenu forever yo

I could see yanking out the innards and turning it into a radio, tv, laptop, tablet, box for chess pieces, or a place to stash your cannabis. At ten bucks it is like Scientology, a steal.

Much too dangerous to have around. God knows how many dirty little BTs might be stuck to it from its prior owner.

 

[Ed8]

Much too dangerous to have around. God knows how many dirty little BTs might be stuck to it from its prior owner.

Like Shakespeare wrote: BT or not BT, that is the congestion. ;-P

 

[SuperstarNeilC]

 

[SuperstarNeilC]

Ultra Mark VIII E-Meter

 

[SuperstarNeilC]

 

[SuperstarNeilC]

 

[Ralph Hilton]

New Independent Mk8 automatic.

 

[Cat's Squirrel]

Good! I remember solo auditing in the East Grinstead AAC and there were a couple of people there who made independent meters; I thought Barry (Penberthy's) just had the edge over the other one.

 

[Chuck J.]

New Independent Mk8 automatic. View attachment 15572View attachment 15572View attachment 15572

I like it.
Almost a Steampunk sort of look, or a box of cookies. ;-)

OK, I think I need to proceed on my idea I posted about earlier.

 

[Veda]

New Independent Mk8 automatic. View attachment 15572View attachment 15572View attachment 15572

A comination bathroom scale and e-meter. I like it.

 

[programmer_guy]

The e-meter does not measure "charge". (Hubbard's pseudo-science),
It measures the change in skin resistance to mild electric current due to brain neuro-transmitter changes that affect the skin.
Sometimes the thought/reaction can be true and sometimes it can be false.
But. eventually in session, if the PC gets "cog, VGIs, F/N" and gets verification of the F/N in Qual then it is allowed.
The feel-good feeling of brain neuro-transmitter changes for stress relief will eventually wear off.

 

[haiqu]

Finished overhauling the old Mk V this morning. It had a new set of batteries last week; the N280BC NiCd button cells are no longer available easily so I went for a set of six AA size off eBay. The last time I changed them was 1995 so they were quite corroded. Today's effort was to do an alignment (my first time!) and glue up various parts of the case that had seperated over the years.

It's going on loan to one of the original Class VIII auditors who happens to live not 30 miles away, so I wanted it to be in good condition for him.

 

[haiqu]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I found some solo can separators for the Mk VII Quantum meter. Some guy on eBay 3D prints them. They were AU$35.00 including shipping and he sent me two sets, so not too bad.

 

[Zertel]

That's the most realistic e-meter demo I've seen. Whatever the mechanics are that's the way it worked in session. Without the e-meter scn would never have attracted as many paying customers as it did and still does today.

 

[haiqu]

While I was on a roll, I tried to charge Koos' old Mk VII and found it had an issue, so I pulled it open to find that the top three NiCd cells had corroded. Found some replacements in the toolkit, threw them in and tested it; all good and now charging properly again.

 

[TheSneakster]

I see that one can buy a pair of Mk VII Quantum e-meters off eBay these days for under a grand in AUD. Considering they retailed for US$3850 when new that's a pretty good deal. I guess everyone is dumping them for the new MKUltra meters. (snigger)

This is just information. I've had a look at the patent for a Mark VII Quantum to see what makes it special besides the circuitry for the auditing practical supervisor's e-meter repeater found in the previous Mark VII (used to replicate the student auditor's e-meter settings and readings at the supervisor's desk). Now the MARK VII already had a microprocessor a built-in Analog-Digital Convertor (ADC) to read the Tone Arm (and other signals.

HEM added a device called a digital potentiometer (computer programmable variable resistor) controlled by the microprocessor program to dynamically adjust the amplifier gain ( Sensitivity ). The Don Breeding/Joe Harris transistor meter TA versus Pre-Clear resistance comparison circuit exhibits a decreasing output signal as the TA setting goes up. AFAICT, the above circuit addon is a better solution to the problem the Mark VI was supposed to fix: weak BT reads being difficult to see for Solo Auditors.