I just bought a used Silhouet-Tone Sequentium 328. What would be the best way to test out this machine before proceeding to use it on myself?
First you plug everything in, then you take the “inactive pole” or the red wire and along with the probe holder, you complete the circut with a flashlight battery, and with the machine set for blend, or galvanic, hit the foot pedal. The light should light up.
Next test, is to put the probe into an egg white, and with the machine on thermolysis mode, tap the footpedal repeatedly, and watch to see if the clear liquid eggwhite turns to solid and white.
I think this epilator has a test outlet for accessories on the back. I think it’s got a red “nut” around it.
Success on the first test. I did exactly as instructed and got a green light lit up for the duration indicated on the machine.
The second test did not seem to work. I set the mode to thermolysis and placed the probe into an egg white. When I press the pedal, I get a red light lit up but the egg white does not change.
You would have to turn the thermolysis energy/intensity up as high as possible to guarantee that you would see anything.
The good news is that if the thermolysis side was not working, then fixing it would probably cost about $75 plus shipping expenses.
You might need to have the egg white in foil and the foil attached to the indifferent electrode wrapped in a paper towel soaked in salt water…
I’m thinking this epilator needed the indifferent electrode even with the footswitch in thermolysis…
And yes…turn it up. I think you will need a high timed setting to do the egg white test with this one.
Attachment to the “blasé electrode” (ops, I mean “indifferent electrode”) might not work, because not many HF units “ground” thru that; but some do.
However, use a metal cup for the egg whites, wet your hand and hold the cup — you should get the egg whites to “cook.” The HF requires a certain mass for the “thru the air grounding.” And, I’ll take mine “over easy with hash browns” … yum! Kein Knüdel danke!