The antique violet wand gifted to me by lefthand has failed. I opened it up, and the iron core of the secondary winding is completely rusted through. In English, that means it’s almost certainly beyond repair.
Grr.
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If only you had a friend who was a high voltage physicist and had a machine shop and a working knowledge of Tesla Coils and Oudin Coils (the real name for your nerve-damage-wand) who may be able to repair it for you.
Send me the damn thing and I’ll have a look at it. If it *can* be fixed, I can fix it. If it can’t, I’ll just send it back.
Please be aware that playing with such things is a monumentally STUPID activity. They cause permanent nerve damage (and long term subcutaneous carbon tracking). Doing this to a person is a bad idea. Doing this to a person you love is a VERY bad idea. Doing this to the specific nerves that you love to play with the most on a person you love is a incredibly bad idea.
I know there’s gobs of anecdotal evidence to the contrary. This is written by people who like the tingles and think they’re fun. Read the real data (you know, SCIENCE) on the effects of human electrocution with low-amperage-high-voltage radio frequency long term exposures. You’ll be very thankful to have a pretty antique sex toy, and you’ll clean it, set it on a shelf in a little display case, and never plug it in again.
Which, as a physicist and someone who’s been electrocuted more times than you really want to know about, I think is exactly what I think you should do with that little toy.
If you’d like to see for yourself, get a raw hotdog (the classic physicists analog for a human finger) and expose it to your wand for a comparable duration to one of your play sessions.
Then slice it up and examine it under a microscope.
Those little black fractals that look like lightning bolts are Carbon made from charred human (or in this case, Porcine) flesh. It’s a 3rd degree burn. Painless, yes, but only because it follows blood vessels and nerve tissue and the human body cannot FEEL stimuli at radio frequencies. Kill the nerve and you’ll never feel anything in that exact spot again. The carbon takes months to dissipate back into the body to be removed as waste.
Wow, thanks for that explanation. I’d always wondered about the safety of violet wands. Hell, I’ve got an ET-312B electrostim unit here that I still can’t really bring myself to use ’cause I don’t feel like I know the physiology behind it well enough yet. 🙂
So, I’m curious then, because I don’t know the physics behind it all…
How is this different (if it is) from the little electro-pads some doctors use on strained muscles, like when someone throws their back out?
OH! most excellent question! 🙂
The difference is substantial. See, an Oudin Coil (what you guys call a Violet Ray Wand) is actually very similar to the ignition coil in your car, only a little more advanced. The car system generates just a single pulse of High Voltage DC. Your little coil there generates high voltage (that’s what makes the “voilet rays” they’re called Corona in the real world and are the same thing that makes power lines crackle on humid days), but the power it makes is AC (Alternating current, like your wall socket). It generates electricity that vibrates back and forth.
Now here’s where it gets cool.
See, the vast majority of AC you encounter cycles at 60 times a second (60Hz), this is why when you get bit by a light socket it “tingles” and hurts like hell. Your muscles CAN and will contract 60 times a second with enough stimulation.
Muscles are just electric motors. You put enough electricity across one, in the right way, and the muscle will contract (or, more accurately, PARTS of it will).
Now, your little Oudin Coil works at a much higher frequency than your wall socket, and a much higher voltage (but a lower amperage).
Think of electricity as water in a firehose. Volts is the pressure (how far it will shoot), Amps are the measurement of volume, how big your pipe is. Your wall socket is 120 Volts AC at 20 Amps (or less). Your car battery is 12 Volts DC (Direct Current, no vibrations) at about 400 Amps, and your Oudin Coil is about 10,000 Volts AC at maybe 5 milliamps.
The Oudin coil makes electricity in a frequency so high (tens of thousands of cycles per second or more) that even though it’s doing serious damage, you can’t feel any pain because not only can your muscles not move that fast but your nerves simply don’t have the resolution to go that high and are insensitive to it (much like your eyes cannot perceive ultraviolet light). Nerve damage is a bitch like that, this is why I can cut your arm off with my big YAG laser and you won’t feel a thing more than your arm just got a LOT lighter ;).
Now, a TENS unit (those little muscle stimulators) operate on a much lower voltage and work on DC pulses. They do just enough to make the muscle contract and are used therapeutically. Now, you CAN do some rather serious damage with one, but you’d KNOW that you fucked yourself up because you’d have Pain. Pain is your body’s way of telling you to stop doing that shit in the first place. Provided you don’t run it’s electrodes directly across your head or heart, they’re reasonably safe (on par with fisting, you can fuck someone up if you do it wrong, but they’ll be fine in a few days).
Make sense?
This is cracking me up. I decided to google this because I always like to double check things like this. And so what do I find?
http://community.livejournal.com/sex_masterclass/637.html
Seems you are the resident expert 🙂
Lol, yes I’ve written on them before as you can see. I love how people can just completely disregard things I say because some dildo wrote something on the Internet that says it’s actually safe. This is a world where my DOG has a website and people can SAY anything they want on the Internet, fact checking and peer review doesn’t apply. You HAVE to make your own decisions and judgments of the quality of what you read, consider your sources carefully. Personally, I don’t know you, and I don’t give a shit if you stuff a cattleprod up your ass and tape the button down. All I ask is that you shoot some video of it because I have a serious love of schadenfreude and that shit’s just funny.
It’s not like I’m a fucking expert or anything. 😉 I design, build, test and research high voltage/high energy things in all shapes and sizes every day. I’ve been doing this for longer than most of the people reading this have even been sexually active.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DHUXZzUvKY
And I *still* fuck up and get bit every now and then. Watch to the very end for a blooper of me getting bit with a VERY low power discharge (maybe 200mA) of 75,000 Volts DC.
Here’s some real high voltage for you. This is a prototype of a much larger Tesla Coil I’ve been working on for about 4 years now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHqUcFczQC8
That’s the little one, it makes a 10-foot discharge at about 1.5 Million volts. The BIG one will be called Project Zeus and will be capable of 50-foot arcs at several millions of volts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQDcE4my9zw
If you’re a serious Geek, watch that one and you can learn all the basics of how these machines work. It’s very similar to an Oudin coil (there are some small fundemental differences, the OC shares a common core wheras TCs are by definition Air Cored).
And if you’re really interested in this stuff, or just a Geek at heart, check out http://www.thegeekgroup.org
I understand what you’re saying. I’ve had to use those tens units before at the doctor and I didn’t like them, but I got used to them. I’ve avoided the violet wand because the tens units were uncomfortable and I didn’t see how that could translate into sexual pleasure for me (although I do like flogging and hate stubbing my toe). I think I’ve asked what the difference was before, but verbal instructions don’t stick as well in my head as written instructions do.
I definitely appreciate the offer to rebuild the wand, though if what you say is true (and I don’t doubt it), it seems somewhat pointless. After all, the only real purpose to having it working again would be to use it, something I’m suddenly a great deal less keen on.
If only you had a friend who was a high voltage physicist and had a machine shop and a working knowledge of Tesla Coils and Oudin Coils (the real name for your nerve-damage-wand) who may be able to repair it for you.
Send me the damn thing and I’ll have a look at it. If it *can* be fixed, I can fix it. If it can’t, I’ll just send it back.
Please be aware that playing with such things is a monumentally STUPID activity. They cause permanent nerve damage (and long term subcutaneous carbon tracking). Doing this to a person is a bad idea. Doing this to a person you love is a VERY bad idea. Doing this to the specific nerves that you love to play with the most on a person you love is a incredibly bad idea.
I know there’s gobs of anecdotal evidence to the contrary. This is written by people who like the tingles and think they’re fun. Read the real data (you know, SCIENCE) on the effects of human electrocution with low-amperage-high-voltage radio frequency long term exposures. You’ll be very thankful to have a pretty antique sex toy, and you’ll clean it, set it on a shelf in a little display case, and never plug it in again.
Which, as a physicist and someone who’s been electrocuted more times than you really want to know about, I think is exactly what I think you should do with that little toy.
If you’d like to see for yourself, get a raw hotdog (the classic physicists analog for a human finger) and expose it to your wand for a comparable duration to one of your play sessions.
Then slice it up and examine it under a microscope.
Those little black fractals that look like lightning bolts are Carbon made from charred human (or in this case, Porcine) flesh. It’s a 3rd degree burn. Painless, yes, but only because it follows blood vessels and nerve tissue and the human body cannot FEEL stimuli at radio frequencies. Kill the nerve and you’ll never feel anything in that exact spot again. The carbon takes months to dissipate back into the body to be removed as waste.
Wow, thanks for that explanation. I’d always wondered about the safety of violet wands. Hell, I’ve got an ET-312B electrostim unit here that I still can’t really bring myself to use ’cause I don’t feel like I know the physiology behind it well enough yet. 🙂
So, I’m curious then, because I don’t know the physics behind it all…
How is this different (if it is) from the little electro-pads some doctors use on strained muscles, like when someone throws their back out?
OH! most excellent question! 🙂
The difference is substantial. See, an Oudin Coil (what you guys call a Violet Ray Wand) is actually very similar to the ignition coil in your car, only a little more advanced. The car system generates just a single pulse of High Voltage DC. Your little coil there generates high voltage (that’s what makes the “voilet rays” they’re called Corona in the real world and are the same thing that makes power lines crackle on humid days), but the power it makes is AC (Alternating current, like your wall socket). It generates electricity that vibrates back and forth.
Now here’s where it gets cool.
See, the vast majority of AC you encounter cycles at 60 times a second (60Hz), this is why when you get bit by a light socket it “tingles” and hurts like hell. Your muscles CAN and will contract 60 times a second with enough stimulation.
Muscles are just electric motors. You put enough electricity across one, in the right way, and the muscle will contract (or, more accurately, PARTS of it will).
Now, your little Oudin Coil works at a much higher frequency than your wall socket, and a much higher voltage (but a lower amperage).
Think of electricity as water in a firehose. Volts is the pressure (how far it will shoot), Amps are the measurement of volume, how big your pipe is. Your wall socket is 120 Volts AC at 20 Amps (or less). Your car battery is 12 Volts DC (Direct Current, no vibrations) at about 400 Amps, and your Oudin Coil is about 10,000 Volts AC at maybe 5 milliamps.
The Oudin coil makes electricity in a frequency so high (tens of thousands of cycles per second or more) that even though it’s doing serious damage, you can’t feel any pain because not only can your muscles not move that fast but your nerves simply don’t have the resolution to go that high and are insensitive to it (much like your eyes cannot perceive ultraviolet light). Nerve damage is a bitch like that, this is why I can cut your arm off with my big YAG laser and you won’t feel a thing more than your arm just got a LOT lighter ;).
Now, a TENS unit (those little muscle stimulators) operate on a much lower voltage and work on DC pulses. They do just enough to make the muscle contract and are used therapeutically. Now, you CAN do some rather serious damage with one, but you’d KNOW that you fucked yourself up because you’d have Pain. Pain is your body’s way of telling you to stop doing that shit in the first place. Provided you don’t run it’s electrodes directly across your head or heart, they’re reasonably safe (on par with fisting, you can fuck someone up if you do it wrong, but they’ll be fine in a few days).
Make sense?
This is cracking me up. I decided to google this because I always like to double check things like this. And so what do I find?
http://community.livejournal.com/sex_masterclass/637.html
Seems you are the resident expert 🙂
Lol, yes I’ve written on them before as you can see. I love how people can just completely disregard things I say because some dildo wrote something on the Internet that says it’s actually safe. This is a world where my DOG has a website and people can SAY anything they want on the Internet, fact checking and peer review doesn’t apply. You HAVE to make your own decisions and judgments of the quality of what you read, consider your sources carefully. Personally, I don’t know you, and I don’t give a shit if you stuff a cattleprod up your ass and tape the button down. All I ask is that you shoot some video of it because I have a serious love of schadenfreude and that shit’s just funny.
It’s not like I’m a fucking expert or anything. 😉 I design, build, test and research high voltage/high energy things in all shapes and sizes every day. I’ve been doing this for longer than most of the people reading this have even been sexually active.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DHUXZzUvKY
And I *still* fuck up and get bit every now and then. Watch to the very end for a blooper of me getting bit with a VERY low power discharge (maybe 200mA) of 75,000 Volts DC.
Here’s some real high voltage for you. This is a prototype of a much larger Tesla Coil I’ve been working on for about 4 years now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHqUcFczQC8
That’s the little one, it makes a 10-foot discharge at about 1.5 Million volts. The BIG one will be called Project Zeus and will be capable of 50-foot arcs at several millions of volts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQDcE4my9zw
If you’re a serious Geek, watch that one and you can learn all the basics of how these machines work. It’s very similar to an Oudin coil (there are some small fundemental differences, the OC shares a common core wheras TCs are by definition Air Cored).
And if you’re really interested in this stuff, or just a Geek at heart, check out http://www.thegeekgroup.org
I understand what you’re saying. I’ve had to use those tens units before at the doctor and I didn’t like them, but I got used to them. I’ve avoided the violet wand because the tens units were uncomfortable and I didn’t see how that could translate into sexual pleasure for me (although I do like flogging and hate stubbing my toe). I think I’ve asked what the difference was before, but verbal instructions don’t stick as well in my head as written instructions do.
I definitely appreciate the offer to rebuild the wand, though if what you say is true (and I don’t doubt it), it seems somewhat pointless. After all, the only real purpose to having it working again would be to use it, something I’m suddenly a great deal less keen on.