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 ****ted 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