Sensing is always going to be a highly variable experience but that doesn’t mean we can’t find ways to quantify aspects of it. For example, Haptic Lab in @Az_F’s Zinc app allows you to use a device such as the Lodestone Pico to output a variety of wave forms and amplitudes that magnet implants react to when near. With such a tool at our disposal we have a way to arrive at what is essentially a “personal score for a given placement with a given implant.” Unfortunately, that leaves a lot of room for subjective variability (depth, personal sensitivity). However, what we can do is look at the mechanics of it all.
Reactive Potential = Field:Mass
Peak sensing is typified by being able to feel alternating current (50hz/60hz) flow through wires. The lower the current you can notice, the better. At a fundamental level, as the current’s polarity swaps, the direction of force the magnet is applying to the nerves in your tissue changes by ~180 degrees. To exert that force, it must overcome its own inertia. To that end, we suggest the ratio of field strength to mass is an important indicator with regard to sensing capability - something we are calling “reactive potential”.
Field Strength Measurement Methodology
The nature of our resin process means that these hand made implants have one side that’s slightly thinner, and one side that has slightly more resin. For discs like the m0422a, we measure from the thinner side. The shape of our axial cylinder magnets prevent convenient access to the ends where the strongest point would be, so we don’t measure there. We measure the strongest point along the barrel, which is right next the caps.
The Goods
| Implant | Field Strength | Mass (g) | Reactive Potential (G[auss]/g) |
|---|---|---|---|
| m0422a | 1600 | .07 | 22.86k |
| Titan | 2900 | .23 | 12.61k |
| m0426a | 2110 | .19 | 11.1k |
| 4825* | 2600 | .29 | 8.97k |
| xG3 v2 | 2350 | .52 | 4.52k |
| m0490a | 1462 | .398 | 3.75k |
| xG3 v1 | 1322 | .51 | 2.59k |
| m08s | 3100 | 1.21 | 2.56k |
| xG3 v1r | 1300 | .52 | 2.5k |
| m1148a | 2930 | 1.97 | 1.49k |
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