 These devices are sold in different packing and under various names: PAP-IMI, PER 2000, PEMF100, Magnapulse, Magnawave, Magnacharge, MG-33, Magus Magnetica etc. If you consider to work with one of the aforementioned devices (which are all the same) you should read THIS ARTICLE (keep reading towards the end) and you will not even want to come close anymore to this dangerous device! I received an email from the manufacturer of these devices and you can read his full email and my reply at the bottom of this page and draw your own conclusions!
  Spark gap technology is used for discharging high energies extremely fast into e.g. electrodes. The best example we all know is the flashlight in a photo camera. The energy is charged from the battery into a capacitor (something like a re-chargeable battery) and when pressing the knob this energy is unloaded suddenly and very fast into the special light bulb on the photo camera emitting an uncontrolled amount of light.
Another example used in hospitals is unloading huge electrical energies into electrodes focused on kidneys used to disintegrate kidney stones. The amount of energy released can only be controlled by changing the high voltage, which charges into the high voltage capacitor used. There is no technological way in which these random discharges can be controlled in the frequency spectrum and the frequencies generated are unpredictable.
 It uses almost all frequencies of the spectrum, including possible dangerous frequencies responsible for promoting cancer (cell phones and microwaves) both for the therapist holding the coils, as well as for the patient.
The therapist is exposed extensively by treating multiple patients a day! In case you are a therapist working with such a device, you are probably not looking forward receiving these flowers for the sad occasion...
The discharge of this energy into a loop is misleadingly called pulsed magnetic energy. The output voltage reaches about 30,000 Volts! The duration of the discharge pulse is extremely fast creating a "popping" noise. This extremely short discharge pulse (just a few milli seconds) has a magnetic intensity of not more than 63 Gauss (6.3 milli Tesla). The only reported effect is literally an “electrical shock effect” like a “bolt of lightning”.  The repeating pulsing frequency of this technology is very limited due to the time it takes between each discharge pulse to re-charge the internal capacitor. If the pulsing frequency is increased the energy level goes down due to the re-charge effect and becomes completely unpredictable.A pity that there are unscrupulous manufacturers who create dangerous devices, while on purpose calling it by the same name as established, completely different, PEMF technology. Some people might even call it criminal selling these devices as therapy systems (for incredible rip-off prices). Since these devices generate 30.000 Volt discharge pulses they heavily pollute the entire surrounding, over a very broad electromagnetic spectrum, with dangerous Electro-Magnetic Pulses (EMP). This device mimics the same basic principles as applied in electromagnetic weapons or electromagnetic guns, which are specifically designed to destroy electronic devices.
Here follows the original email communication between the manufacturer of these devices and myself (including the typo's) and I am still waiting to hear from him again!
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Davis Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 7:09 AM Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by Michael Davis (michael@pemfsystems.com) on Wednesday, May 05, 2010 at 05:08:42 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- country: United States comments: Hi, This message is for Ben Philipson. I am the manufacturer of PEMF100, Magnapulse, Magnawave and Magus Magnetica. I think you misunderstand the use of these machines. As I understand Curatronic it is primarily for balancing and cellular health and would be good to use on a regular basis. My product is to help people to nrecover from trauma of accident, sports injury or surgery. It is way more powerful trhan your defvice and is not intended to be used on any regular basis like Curatronic. People use my device a few times, recover from their issue, and discontinue use. So, since all of these devices are polluters (yours and mine) you have to weigh the long term benefit and the short term pollution exposure. Our products are not competitive at all and anytime anyone asks me which they should buy I tell them "Both". They do different things and help the bnody in different ways. And here is my response to him: Hi Michael, Thank you for your email and it is my absolute pleasure to have a professional and technical discussion with you about PEMF technology. Just for your information my knowledge and experience in PEMF goes back more than 30 years while visiting together with the original PEMF therapy inventor Dr. Manfred Fichtner medical doctors in The Netherlands and Germany to introduce this marvelous new technology and do research together. I do continue to stand firmly behind my opinion as expressed on my website pemft.com about your devices (and it will stay that way) unless you will be able to convince me scientifically that I am wrong. There is no misunderstanding from my side about the use of your and our devices. Your devices are being used by therapists for either human or vet use and for them the extended exposure times to the electromagnetic pulses over a very wide electromagnetic spectrum of the field generated by your device is substantial and dangerous, e.g. the therapist having to hold the coil wires next to the body of a horse during treatment. Our systems are not just for the applications you mention and for use by people at home, but the professional models are excellent treatment tools in the hands of medical doctors, chiropractors, naturopaths, physiotherapists etc. as proven in numerous clinics around the world. Your claim that your devices are more powerful than ours is clearly based upon your misunderstanding on how your own system works. The pulse time of discharging a high voltage capacitor into a coil is not more than just a few milli seconds and as such the amount of Joules generated in your coils are not only very short lived but in addition not sufficient for the applications you claim. Contrary to your statement: the Curatron devices generate indeed far lower pulses in AMPLITUDE but over the applied time window do transfer by far more energy into the body than your device is able to do. The pulse duration of your discharge pulses decrease very fast over time and the pulse FORM will look similar to a discharge pulse of a defibrillator, only shorter, however the voltage you generate is substantial higher because of the very high voltage capacitor and spark gap ignition for capacitor discharge you use. BTW how about ozone fumes generated by your technology, do you need to evacuate them with the fan in your device? Are you aware that ozone is toxic and if inhaled over time can cause fatal lung diseases? Or is the fan needed to cool down the spark gap you use? Do you still use old-fashioned vacuum tube technology as spark gap? If the contained pulse energy is sufficient it will work fine for applications like electromagnetic guns, igniting a nuclear weapon or for underwater spark gap technology as applied in hydroelectric lithotripters to break up kidney stones. But the spark gap technology you choose to use is not appropriate for the application claims you make, although I have no doubt that penetration of the high voltage discharge pulses through the body does indeed happen and very possibly will even initiate unwanted muscle contractions because inducted impulses of sufficiently high voltage on muscle nerves will fire muscles and this will happen on the condition that the duration of the pulses is sufficiently long (more than 300 - 400 micro seconds). The very low pulse repetition rate of your devices is inherent to the technology you use. I guesstimate that the pulse frequency rate of your device is very low because of the problem you encounter charging the high voltage capacitor as fast as possible. The capacitor needs a minimum time in order to be charged. This means that your pulsing frequency can never be more than a couple of Hertz which is another drawback of your technology. And in order to add insult to injury: if you turn up the pulse repetition rate automatically the peak power of the pulses decrease due to this effect. What is the maximum pulse repetition rate of your device without decrease in pulse amplitude or pulse duration? Do I assume correctly that it cannot be more than 2 or 3 Hz? So far I have not seen information that your devices need replacement of the (expensive) high voltage capacitor after a couple of years use, did I miss this somewhere or did you invent a new type of high voltage capacitor with unlimited life time? In the latter case you will make more money out of this invention than by selling these devices. I have to admit that the noise your spark gap device makes certainly has psychological effects, however not to be confused with therapeutic (placebo?) effects. Your polluters statement is flatly wrong. How can you even start to compare the wide spectrum electromagnetic field of your device with real low frequency PEMF? The frequencies or real PEMF do not exceed a couple of hundred Hertz for carrier frequencies, let alone pulsing frequencies! How would you explain that in Europe REAL PEMF devices do obtain CE certification where requirements for EMC are extremely difficult to be met and tested extensively for electrostatic discharge and conducted and radiated disturbances in a anechoic chamber? Inherent to the technology you use you are probably aware that you will never be able to obtain any approval from any authority in the world for your device unlike other PEMF devices which do have CE and ISO approvals. I am looking forward to receiving your up-to-the point response on all of the above. Sincerely yours, Ben Philipson Copyright 2010 - Ben Philipson Curatronic Ltd. |