I’m sure you can still do these proceedures as permited by your license requirements.
Ease yourself into understanding your new Apilus 27 megahertz epilator. The principles of removing hair via electrolysis have not changed even though the technolgy has. When you put this altogether, you will peacefully pack your Gentronic digital away forever.
Dee
My attachment to galvanic is often related to the transient lives of many of my clients. I have so many clients who are based in other continents and only here for two or three months at a time. With galanic I am often aiming to get to a stage where they can bleach while they are away. I shall truly be blown away if I can get less regrowth on the apilus pure.
Guess what? My amazing apilus platinum is due to arrive tomorrow. Very excited!
When you get it, take a deep breath, and start wading through the manual and call Dee and Me for info on the stuff the manual doesn’t make clear. (I swear, the darned thing has the wrong instructions on how to create a file)
You will be able to do anything you did on the other machine, as long as you know HOW to make that happen on the new unit.
One can even do Telangiectasia with a Platinum. The only thing is, one doesn’t have separate pedals to control the galvanic separately from the thermolysis. The thermo has to be set to be on all the time, or set for measured bursts at timed intervals.
Well I am blown away by the precision and reduced sensation I am a tech moron,it took me a whole day to find a setting that removes a hair but what joy! Thank you so much for your kind offers of help and I will be calling you. I am currently using it in a most unsophistscated fashion but it is still great. Hardly any skin reaction. 36 hours later and I am awaiting scabs on my arm and leg to compare. Soooo excited. James and Dee ,thank you so much for introducing me to a whole new world of electrology.
You DO know that you are now the holder of the Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile of electrolysis. That makes you the SuperPower of your area. Go forth and conquer! 
Oh, God James, how you make me laugh! That is a perfect description of this epilator, Oh Great one!
Now, Christine, you are doing this right. This new baby is not so complicated to figure out. After I got mine, my plan was to “stay close to the shoreline” so I did PicoFlash for awhile. Also, I did some blend on those wild and crazy mole hairs. Later, as I got more adventurous, I went farther away from the “shoreline” and added Synchro only for deep, strong hair, a FABULOUS mode, kind of like a fast blend except that it is a thermolysis mode. This epilator is so much fun to work with that every electrologist should be kissing the toes of the Dectro people who made it possible.
Recently, I was without my Platinum so some updating could be done. Now that I have it back, I am simply floored by comments my clients made when I was using my backup epilator. COMFORT issues was the topic - people do notice the difference. THe first thing my client said to me this morning was not “Good Morning” but rather, “Do you have your other machine back yet?” She was very happy when I said yes. They all know that there is a big, big difference in the sensation side of things and they appreciate that this is so tolerable. No one wants to pay money for something that hurts too much.
Be ready to do longer appointments as many will ask you for more time as they discover that the sensation is pretty darn good. The client I saw this morning started out with 30 minute appointments and is now asking me for two hours slots at a time. We can accomplish a lot for all her fine, blond facial hairs in two hours slots. This morning 2,458 insertions were completed in 125 minutes. Now that makes a visual impact. She was slightly pink. She never complains of scabbing.
In order to accomplish insertion numbers like that, get rid of the foot switch and work towards insertion delays under 0.5. I had my delay set at 0.3 today. No talking with insertion delays that low, just focus and go. Do tell the client to go to sleep and think of chickies, bunnies and lambs because you don’t want a lot of movement when working this fast. Work slowly toward this kind of deadly speed. It may take awhile or it may not? When your hand gets faster than the timer, then you will know that it is time to tick down the autosensor. Autosensor mode is the key to stamina and stamina is needed for those longer appointments.
That’s it for now. Congratulations on your new baby.
Dee
James, your post made me laugh out loud , so funny. Dee, one of the features that really appealed to me about the platinum, is the ability to work without a footswitch. So now, you have given me the next clue. So, I will aim for that this week and let you know how I go. It is definetly a one step at a time challenge for me. When I first saw the manual, I thought both the machine and I could be antiques by the time I figured it out! Again thank you both so much.
Actually, the first thing you should do on the autosensor thing is get into the habit of establishing a rhythm. Your natural rhythm may currently be 1.5 seconds, or even 1.0 seconds. Getting faster at this is like typing. The secret is learning to do it at a steady pace, and the increase in speed will come as a natural progression. One should not try to increase speed from 1.5 to 0.5 in a week, any more than one should try to go from typing 20 words per minute to 40 words per minute in a week. It should just happen naturally.
The secret is to start thinking about the “zen” of your work. You spread, select, insert, and then the autosensor goes to work. The probe must be in place in the time between the machine detects contact, to the time the probe hits bottom of the follicle. This is the time you want the auto sensor to be set at, but at the same time, you need to allow enough time to abort the insertion if something goes wrong, like you misjudged the path of the follicle (you know that thing you can’t see because you can’t see below the skin’s surface).
When you find that you are inserting and there is a pause at the bottom enough that you find yourself on the withdraw as the treatment energy deploys, or you are noticing the pause while you wait for the treatment energy (trust me, you will find yourself saying “hurry up! I aint got all tenth of a second”) then, it is time to lower the auto-delay one tenth of a second again.
Keep in mind, that thermolysis/diathermy is most dependant on placement of the probe when the treatment energy goes off.
While visiting a friend’s shop, I was puzzled, as none of my treatments were wroking, no matter how high I set the machine. My friend had told me that her older machine had an auto-delay that she started using when I talked about them on the Apilus machines. Well, after much trial and looking for the solution, I found that her machine had 1 second as the lowest the insertion delay could go. As it happened, I was inserting and removing the probe on 3 hairs in the time the machine required to sense and deploy one treatment. Had her machine had the Platinum’s aborted treatment tone, I would have known that immediately.
I can hardly beleive the changes in my workplace this week. My very grateful clients want me to thank you for their now, almost pleasant visits. I’ve been testing lots of different settings on myself, and am almost running out of reachable hairs !.It is back to yoga for me ! I can not remember ever buying anything that so exceeds my expectations. Thank you, thank you and thank you.