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To: Don Joe
If Blue Cross won't cover it, I'm going to build one. Piezo discs are available dirt cheap in a variety of sizes, with frequency response ranging up to ultrasonic, and the circuitry to drive them shouldn't cost more than ten bucks or so.

The "yellow area" in the fft looks to be centered around 13khz, so not really ultrasonic. Any audio grade transducer should work. Also since it is audio, you can probably use your PC sound card as the audio source and your PC speaker amps as the amplifier. I'm not sure right off what their amplitude measurement means (20dbB/1.00 m/s^2) but I doubt it is extremely loud.

47 posted on 08/15/2002 6:39:36 AM PDT by jlogajan
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To: jlogajan
There you go. You can make a small fortune with a program that does this auditory nerve therapy while we visit Free Republic. I would pay for a program that worked.

Seems like there could be some program that makes the PC sound board and audio speakers do what you mentioned.
51 posted on 08/15/2002 7:20:34 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: jlogajan
The "yellow area" in the fft looks to be centered around 13khz, so not really ultrasonic. Any audio grade transducer should work. Also since it is audio, you can probably use your PC sound card as the audio source and your PC speaker amps as the amplifier. I'm not sure right off what their amplitude measurement means (20dbB/1.00 m/s^2) but I doubt it is extremely loud.

As I was falling asleep, it occured to me that I might be able to use my TENS unit as a ready to roll driver for it, but then I remembered that its highest freq. was still low enough that I could sense the "vibes", indicating that it's much to low a freq, for this sort of application. The sound card idea is pretty good, it might be a good prototype test bed to find the best freq's, warble-rates, volume levels, etc. Once I home in on what works, I think I can rig up a pocket-sized box with ten bucks (or less) worth of stuff in it to drive the transducers.

56 posted on 08/15/2002 9:29:15 AM PDT by Don Joe
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