On 12/22/2011 8:07 PM, Arfa Daily wrote:
> It never ceases to amaze me what comes through the workshop door. This
> week's bizarre item - taken in for me to look at by a music shop !! -
> was a strange sort of 'Dalek' thingy on four castors. About three and a
> half feet tall, with a large control panel on top, and lots of
> intimidating attachments sprouting from a bunch of connectors at the
> back. Turned out to be a home 'Ultrasonic Liposuction Machine' ...
>
> It's unbelievable what people will shell out their hard-earned on.
> Anyways, this thing comes from China, and it had lasted for all of 5
> minutes before a burning smell, and cessation of all functionality. The
> proud owners had got back onto the company who made it, who helpfully
> suggested that they return it for repair / replacement. Shipping ? 160
> quid ! So they decided to ignore the warranty and let me have a look. In
> the meantime, the manufacturers sent the guy a replacement main board.
> Anyways, long story short, there was a bloody great transistor in the
> middle of the board that was short. I'm not sure if it is for the 500kHz
> RF output, or the 40kHz Ultrasonic output, but whichever, the fact of it
> being short, had twatted the primary of the mains transformer, before
> the now shorted turns, had blown the mains fuse. The three secondary
> windings had no fusing of their own. The final decision was to replace
> the three winding tranny, with three individual trannies sourced in the
> UK, and to fit secondary fuses. This all done, with the replacement
> board in, it worked again.
>
> So what about the "fun" bit ? Well, I'm sure that we've all seen the
> 'translated direct from the Japanese' user manuals of thirty years ago,
> and had a good laugh. Seems now that the art of producing funny manuals,
> has passed to the Chinese. I've seen some pretty good ones over the last
> few years, but I reckon that the one for this piece of equipment, has to
> be the best yet.
>
> Here's a couple of examples
>
> * Ultrasonic Liposuction Equipment, through high energy deep-level
> transport, takes 1100nm-1500nm high ultrasonic head to shoot out violent
> energy, produces itch cavitation in cellulite cells, forms
> * countless tiny vacuum oxygen bubbles, by means of the pressure to make
> FAT cells membrane, act on the cellulite, breaks them, then exhaust out
> of the body by lymphatic system.
>
> and
>
> * It takes the most advanced RF technique and energy, directly penetrate
> into deep-seated cellulite. With targeted oriented RF output, it makes
> the fatty cells in quick active state, produces heat friction,
> * higher the partial temperature. Through the sweat gland, liver sausage
> circulation and lymph, exhaust the redundant fatness and toxins out of
> the body, so get the effect of cellulite dissolving.
>
> The whole thing can be seen at
>
> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-40KHZ-...item19ca636e3c
>
>
> After it was repaired, I gave it a try, but I'm not sure if I exhausted
> any fat via my liver sausage ... :-)
>
> Arfa
>
>
>
Arfa,
Wasn't there a Dr. Who episode a couple of years ago where an alien
race was selling a diet plan which was actually using the fat in the
human host to create their young? As I recall they got fond out by the
young leaving in the middle of the night, triggering home security
systems. All of which sounds more effective and plausible than this
machine.
Crappy Hissmass, I mean Happy Christmas to all. (Or Chanukah if that's
your gig.)
Tim Schwartz
Bristol Electronics
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