Hi everyone, I was just about to install my NextV2 when I decide to take it out of the needle to do the flip around so that I could have the LED pointing away from me when I scanned it.
When I compared the blink brightness side by side to my xSIID, I notice that the LED on the NextV2 points directly inwards towards (what I assume is) the memory bank on the chip obstructing the LEDs brightness.
Meanwhile, the xSIIDs LED points directly to the outside of the chip giving a clear and visible blink through the skin.
I took the chips to my digital microscope to further investigate and found the exact same thing and I’ll post pics if you guys want.
So my question is, is this normal? I don’t mean to sound like a dick, but wouldn’t it make a lot more sense for the LED to be facing outward like on the xSIID?
Clearly I’m missing something here and I’m sure @amal could weigh in.
I just want to be 100% sure this is correct before I go ahead and inject it into my hand, I see a lot of other NextV2s super bright, and I plan to have this chip installed for a while so I want to make sure its proper.
Basically the LED used is a 90° led which is supposed to emit directly out of the glass end like it’s a lense. I’m guessing when the factory slid the module down into the glass it got rotated around somehow and is now pointing in the wrong direction. If you would like an exchange we can do that, just reply to your order confirmation email to start a ticket.
Thanks for the videos. Based on the videos, I think the NExT v2 is actually working correctly.
The xSIID has an LED that emits light out the side of the tube. You can see this in your video as the LED is almost facing directly up into the digital microscope camera, overexposing it;
This is not ideal because the light will appear bright when facing you, and dim when facing away. The glass tube will rotate in the body so some days it might be bright and some it might not be.
The NExT v2 has a 90° LED on its carrier board, so the light emits out the “end cap”, sort of acting like a lens;
To your scope it looks dimmer but that’s because the light is mostly shooting out the glass cap, not directly up at your scope camera. In the body, this light will be scattered by tissue and be about the same visibility no matter what the rotational situation is with the glass tube.
This is true. You can take them to a professional body piercer for installation, and they can autoclave them. Be sure to have them put them into a proper pouch for autoclaving the day of your installation. This allows you to safety test them after autoclaving, and just prior to installation, without contamination. Don’t autoclave them and walk out with them, thinking they will be safe to install later because handling of the very fragile and porous pouches will quickly result in contamination, but a quick tap with a phone on the pouch will not cause issues.
Finally, I see you are using an iPhone. I know you likely had to position your phone flat like that to use with the scope, but proper read procedure with iPhones is to tilt the phone up vertically so it’s perpendicular with the implant;
