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DROP AS MUCH AS TWENTY DIALS
DROP AS MUCH AS TWENTY DIALS
ScnMaster
indicates that an
incident
with very heavy
charge
has
been contacted. A
drop
(later called a
fall
) is the
movement
of the
needle
on the
E-Meter
dial to the
right
as you face the
meter
. A
drop
may consist of about a
quarter
of an inch or may consist of fifteen or twenty dials (the whole
meter
face
dropped
fifteen or twenty
times
) where the
Tone Arm
has
to be moved to the
left
to
keep
the
needle
on the dial. Dropping twenty dials would mean that the
needle
kept
falling
the full dial each
time
the
Tone Arm
was moved to bring the
needle
back on the dial.
—
History of Man
Glossary (app. 11.7.90)