I found some references to multiple pulse treatment for deeply rooted, coarse hair spread over this forum. It sounds like it may emulates some of the blend properties with short wave. It seems few practitioners out there have tried it and even fewer find it useful.
Do some of the posters here that do use some flavor of multiple pulse have some suggestions when and how they use it?
If one has an electrolysis machine that is set up to do automatic multi-pulse treatments, one also has an electrolysis machine that seldome requires using that function, as one can usually find a standard microflash or blend setting that will release the hairs while still being tolerable to the client. If one has an older unit that doesn’t have a designated Multi-Pluse function, chances are one may need to do multiple taps, of the foot pedal to pulse a tolerable treatment energy many times in the follicle to equal the total treatment energy one wishes to use. Of course, one may also be choosing to utilize a technique of multiple treatment pulses positioned in different areas of the follicle, in which case regardless of electrolysis machine, on would be using multiple pulses.
In short, unless one is using a multiple pulse with movement technique, one tends to use Multi-Pulse for coarser hairs, curly hairs, or hairs in difficult to treat areas, with hard insertion angles. There would be no need for such treatment on, something like a dark vellus hair, or a low unit/thickness terminal hair, as a low treatment energy standard microflash, thermolysis, blend or galvanic shot would take care of it without fanfare.
In the end, since multi-pulse takes more time, most electrologists would tend to use it only when needed, as they really would rather get more hairs per hour, than use a slower technique unnecessarilly. (Unless one just wants to work slower and get paid more, due to the lower amount of hairs per hour)
My practitioner uses double taps frequently for my hairs that we are treating for the first time in order to get them to release. These are the darkest, coarsest, hairs you could imagine for a man’s back. I do not believe that there exists a setting for me where every hair could be released every time with one tap while being completely comfortable.
I can feel that she is changing positions of the probe very slightly between pulses–mostly deeper or shallower. For example, she’ll tap once on the way in, and once when she’s in as far as she’s going to travel.
You have a great electrologist, bryce. She sounds like she knows exactly what she is doing and thus, you are getting much desreved results!
Actually, there is a setting for a man’s back and neck hairs that takes one zap with microflash for those deep, very coarse man hairs with root sheaths clear to the follicle opening. The higher quality computerized epilators are equipped to handle these kinds of hairs. Add the automatic sensor function(no foot switch) and one can speedily remove a lot of hair in the course of an hour or two. Add surgical magnification and halogen lighting and the speed factor increases exponetially. Add special technique like your special lady is doing and time to completion is very palatable.
The most skillful electrologists become bigger superstars than they already are when they have the best equipment.
I am so glad to read that you are in good hands. Have you made a comment about her in the electrologist referral forum, (with her permission, of course)?
Dee
James, thank you for expanding on this. I was curious in part because of what I read and in part because the Apilus machines come with multi pulse presets. What you write makes a lot of sense. And perhaps my question suggests that I have gone geeky on this subject matter 
(If yes, can I blame it on this forum? Is there any hope?)
And my observation matches your’s bryce: two taps on some of the tougher hair. We are on the neck going towards the jar line and some of the hair remind me more of little tree trunks rather than hair. (I had one monster once that gave me the horror movie chill. Obviously, I shouldn’t watch horror movies if my own hair already freaks me out!)
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There are many thoughts on multipulse options. In Synchro mode, there are literally hundreds of pulses used on each hair. Another technique, reasons that since both the papilla and the bulge area have regenerative cells, that these cell areas both need to be killed. Usually the technique is to insert the probe to the base of the hair follicle and zap the papilla, than withdraw the probe a little bit and zap the bulge area. Thus taking two pulses per hair. Also their may be the case where multiple hairs are sharing the same follicle, in which case the multiples regenerative cell locations all need to be zapped. It does sound to me like your electrologist does know what they are doing. You do not state where you reside or who was the electrologist. There are times I will also go to a multiburst mode when patients are havimg trouble pain wise with settings, and so I lower the settings, but then it takes multiple zaps to get enough energy to have a positive effect for hair loss. I will often times, set my epilator to kill the finest hairs and then use multiple pulses to get the more course hairs and using the time in between pulses to reposition my probe to surround the hair follicle with energy, rather than just trying to get a hair from just one side of the offending hair.
Of course, you can blame it on this Forum. After all, we are guilty as charged 