E-Meter Autopsy Part 2 of 2

[derFahrer76]

hehehe, nice vid bro, thx for it o/

[logik316]

At least it's a pretty nice box.

[conscientcrusader]

anonymus back in 2008 ?!?

[that0neguyxx]

awesome everyone should contribute to the church and buy one of these! maybe they will have enough to start another cult faction or perhaps pay a lawyer to sue some innocent soul! go alien semen!

[flagmaniaful]

I had one in the early seventies, It cost $250 I think. I did not send in for maintenance and it worked the same all the time. It registered muscle twitches but there were other movements on the meter that the needle displayed that were not muscle twitches.

[flagmaniaful]

I had one in the early seventies, It cost $250 I think. I did not send in for maintenance and it worked the same all the time.

[cycloneyasi5]

well done..glad you didn't destroy it..we need evidence like this to help those who have surrendered their logical and critical thinking to the crooks running this mob style cult

[TojoPanther]

Very revealing but, c'mon. At 1:50, it's silicion, not silicone. Sheesh. You're an areospace electronics engineer with a PhD? Do you support nucular energy too?

[THISNAMEOWNS]

Please send the remains of this insidious and archaic device to dOvetastic's AMIR9000.

[Harjawaldar]

This was very entertaining

[Moosepiesandwich]

Great explanation. Appreciate that it was not physically destroyed as the case and some components might be resurrected for a device that is actually safe, valid and useful.

[MrSocrates420]

This guy makes me want to be an electrical enginer

[leotheloser]

you guys srsly have too much thetans to believe this guys bullshit

you should really take care of that

[MyFace43]

@leotheloser lol

[ScrewAttackChina]

would have been nice to see the component side of the pcb... nice video.

[dsi24]

@ScrewAttackChina Yeah I wish he went farther with the deconstruction.

[JoeyMars1]

Mr, engineer, Scientology org isn't an org of programing peoples minds! Its to make people think clearly without delussions like the ones who have idiot! My advice read Hubbards book then come back with an inteligent clear look at things around you!

[MyFace43]

@JoeyMars1 lol

[JoeyMars1]

The E meter dosn't program human minds dumb a##..its reads chemical changes that occur with in! This guy may be a engineer but he's full of superstitious fears! Guess he thinks its an evil device!

[dsi24]

@JoeyMars1 Someone's sarcasm meter is broken, you should send it in and get it fixed for a few grand!

[websuspect]

So what does it to. Is it basically like an Ohmeter? Does it just measure how hard you grip the cans?

[dsi24]

@websuspect Technically I think it measures the electrical impulses in your muscles, a change in this would indicate flinching, (as is described in the video) which could be you gripping harder, or softer.

[Madcow800]

What would have happend if you connected the two ends where you took the battery off and then pluged it in?

[Manganese5]

And they say psychiatry is evil. What about what they are doing? Isn't that just as inhumane (if not more) than what they claim psychiatrists do?

[Manganese5]

'it is now inert and harmless' You sure about that? It might have some hidden mind control power. I'm joking. You sounded like you really believed it could control your mind?

[JonDeth]

Ha exactly what I assumed, a vintage resistance meter!

The REAL purpose I suspect the scientologists use this for is to see if you have the sensibility and fortitude to investigate and determine what it actually is and get the information so you understand the circuit.

If you don't reject the nonsense they tell you it's for and find out the truth, you don't advance within their ranks.

That's my opinion after having researched this religion and the screwball crap they lay on so thickly.

[ManilaJohn16]

5 snips for great justice

[psychicwhoosh]

L Ron Hubbard has to be one of the best businessmen of all time. He found a way to sell absolute bullshit completely, and legitimately, tax free.

And somehow his successors made Hubbard's scifi religion highly appealing to mega-stars.

Their PR and marketing machine is really quite amazing evidently.

[kokothemonkeyy]

So this thing is basically just a resistance tester? Could i use my DMM to audit my friends? lol

[bigrobnz]

thanks, I"ve got a mark vi arriving soon and I might take that apart and see how it ticks-I"ll let you know how it compares.

[ArmyOfIdeas]

Very enlightening sir! god bless and stay safe ^_^

[rabidchevy]

would the gloves be enough to throw off the "read''

[4G3NTanon]

Gloves are an insulator, so there would be no "read" at all. I put on the gloves to keep away the infamously fictitious "body thetans" :)

[snuckles108]

@4G3NTanon LOLZ Join us you can be the anonymous too if you promise to stay away from Scientology. :)

[vrpk7]

That case would make a nice steampunk case mod for a netbook.

[koyima]

truly

[oldfartrants]

Very interesting!

Thanks ;))

Old Fart Rants

[ZarabethS179]

Just as I thought. It's a wheatstone bridge.

I wonder if the newer ones have incorporated fuses and such for the safety of the users. These really ought to be taken off the market.

[NEODarmus]

i dont get it, just smash it and put it in the bloody bin.

[MrJohndoakes]

@NEODarmus It's a trophy, like one of those junk 1945 Arisaka rifles some WWII vets would display. In a lucite cube it would make a nice converstion piece for his den. I have the circuit diagram for an older e-meter and I'm tempted to solder one together for kicks, though i would avoid the crappy AC charging system.

[lejink]

you can beat it by conditioning, same with the modern polygraph.

takes practice but it can be done!

[brownbigb]

you don't need conditioning. you can do it by adjusting the pressure of your grip to adjust the resistance. start with a really firm grip, and when asked questions loosen it. the meter reacts backwards. quite fuuny to watch the auditors reaction.

[vince19811981]

thank you, i've been wondering what kind of device for a while, I knew it was some sort simple device like this, but thank for the presentation, I hope Xenu won't find you LOL

[St0neman]

You are 100% correct. Thanks for the excellent video, takes me back to my electronics days in school!

[phokuzbt]

Well done sir!

[ravepuppie]

Well dissected. The most expensive thing in there is the meter movement and even those are cheap if you buy them in bulk. No kidding on that 110vac connection! No fuse or breaker?!? I have to say that that's about one of the cheapest looking PC boards I've seen in a long time. It's not even mounted squarely with the face. Looks like I can "audit" myself with my Fluke at home anytime I want to! PS-I will though agree, the case is nice. :D New Mk VII's sell for about $4500!! What a gyp.

[Nephalen]

jesus invented this

[POKOHelba]

so...you can make one? and for cheap? and people payed almost 1K for it?

Thank you for showing us the inside of this machine!

I was very curious to find out what's inside!

[Bkorczak]

A tool for the naive and vulnerable.

Avoid, stay away, don't buy, it is a piece of junk to bilk you for money.

Thanks for great video.

Stay safe.

BK

[MisterDanceMachine]

Very insightful! Bravo.

[JustaEropeanGuy]

Awesome!

[Prearius]

Thx for the effort you put into this. Great vid. I suspected it to be some form of a primitive lie detector, but it turned out to be a jurassic fossil.

[Photog422]

$800 new and only about $25 worth of parts. They don't call it the religion ( or cult ) of greed for nothing.

[MrMaskedAnonymous]

Thank you for clarifying what the E-meter is and also for permanently breaking one. I would however just like to clarify what's inside the new version because since this is a primitive lie detector maybe the newer one is more accurate but in turn, may be easier to fool.

[crazistein]

Great videos! I love how you included sound bits from L. Ron Hubbard.

btw, I just found a couple these vintage models for sell on ebay for $30 to $100, nice!

[murringo9]

When you look at how flimsy and useless the e-meter is...it doesn't really say much for the 'church' as a whole

[AKsib2]

Thanks for such an in-depth video, but it is a bit disturbing to me how openly biased you and almost all your viewers are. How does the church of scientology brainwash people any more then you with your theories of slave labor? I'm just saying, a little respect for people who have different opinions then you would make you much more creditable. Sorry to preach but it just bothers me.

[TalesFromTheTrail]

You clearly need to keep checking out videos

[shogo7g]

I've heard a rumor that the circuitry in the E-meter was also designed to make the needle move slightly at random, giving the auditor extra data to interpret, thus adding validity to the job of the auditor and the auditing process.

Just a rumor, I have not been able to confirm this.

[4G3NTanon]

Nothing in the circuitry is there designed to do that. Except for loose connections, dirty pots, or noisy transistors which would make it non-functional . :) The ideo-motor muscle response is enough to cause a huge variety of reads. I think that is the correct term, the involuntary muscle movements is what causes dowsing rods and ouiji board pointers to move. Check out James Randi's videos on such things.

[shogo7g]

I appreciate the clarification. Thank you for your time, and your video.

[JoeyMars1]

@shogo7g Wrong! Thats nonsence! ignorant people make up all kind of things about things they fear and don't understand like the commenters on this video and utbe itself

[Megamildman]

So, basically all it does is measure how hard you're holding the cans? I bet you could get something like that in a novelty catalog for less than $50.

[jonslaterhome]

informative, but not impartial

[SayinItAndSprayinIt]

Could a USB version of this be constructed, with an incorporated software interface and GUI?

[uploadJ]

SayinItAndSprayinIt: "Could a USB version of this be constructed, with an incorporated software interface and GUI?"

Most likely: I would receommend using LabVIEW Version 8.6 to do it too. This will result in a 'distributable' (distribution CD) of about 100 MB in size which would include the LabVIEW run-time engine and all the trimmings (MAX, etc) *but* the time-to-write the app would require no more than one afternoon of spare time (assuming an experienced LabVIEW person.)

[hardgayistheshiz]

YAY THE CHANS

[jonslaterhome]

eh.?

[hartman5555]

Informative video. Things aren't so much of a mistery when they are broken down. Nice to see an e-meter disposed of. Can you re-assemble that e-meter then do a sledge-o-matic on it ? I am subscribing to your channel in hopes. Cheers.

[ZerqTM]

OMG!!!! he destoryed it!

where alll doomed now! Xenu will escape and nuke us all!!!! again!

and make us watch religious brainashing 3d movies and stuff us into some other lifeform.

our only hope is to give all our money unquestioningly to the church of scientoligy!

and work slavishly in the sea org! cos there the only people who can save the world!...

cos they say so...

or where doomed!!!

[whef]

Man, I was looking forward to that worthless piece of shit to get sawed in half and hammered.

[darbeau1]

thank you for doing this. I wonder if proper disposal is followed or if these are polluting landfills like they do human minds.

[lostcause247]

thankyou for the post. verry interesting.

iv always been curious about the e meter

and there isnt a whole lot of info out there!

[bcenturbulator]

hahahaha

what do you think the parts are worth not including the electro-mechanical bits?

if you really wanna disable that think you should hook it up to a magnetron power-supply or somethin....some nice 500 VDC.

What a piece of crap. Could have been done in the 80's with an op amp and a few LEDs. What a piece of crap.

[AlbertaAllan]

Slave labor? It figures. Some poor schmuk too far in debt from Operating Thetan courses."We feel that you must did to pay off your debt to the Church". I'm glad you neutered and lobotomized that thing

[puckf17]

Well lie detectors also measure small twitches don't they? I think this stuff is intended to detect small responses which reflect varying inner states, like lying. Although the polygraph has been banned in some countries. It does measures reactions but can't read minds. ie it can't tell you WHAT the reaction means. Although my understanding is Co$ uses it to detect agitated responses and trouble areas, with regard to a question, so it serves it's purpose. Similar to the FBI, only primitive tech.

[puckf17]

And I should add with similar interpretive issues to the Feds, if the findings of countries that have banned the polygraph are to be believed.

[ThetanBait]

Would it be possible to make a manual on how to build one?

[Heretic920]

I would guess so but it would be expensive

[ThetanBait]

I was thinking it might be interesting to build one, then challenge an auditor to tell the difference.

[4G3NTanon]

Actually many years ago I was thinking of making some improvements to the basic design, but realized that a fully indoctrinated auditor wouldn't touch it. A Co$ customer or even a freezoner insists on materials from "source". BTW, while on the NED course, I was writing up a computer logic flowchart of R3RA to clarify the auditing "process" and nearly got thrown out of the course room. No "squirrels" allowed you know.

[taichibailongball]

How about making videos on the step by step process of building your own model. I'd most certainly build one if I knew how.

[DomremySurMeuse]

A couple years ago I found an image of an E-meter circuit diagram on the InterNet. I saved a copy, just for future reference. The E-meter, as explained here, is just an active wheatstone bridge. A decent electro-mechanical meter could be gotten on Ebay for not much, along with the rotary switches. Resistors, transistors, etc., could be gotten from Radio Shack. The whole thing could be done for probably $50, and with a little work, be just as sensitive.

[Imariscent]

It takes a techno geek, electrical specialist to really get down with this and see the inner workings. Congrats I give Real Kudos to you for posting this. I was waiting for a video like this to prove the E-meter wrong.

[alexiadeath]

good one. thanks. When I heard about this device the first thing i remembered was playing with my dads digital multimeter in resistance metering mode and how the numbers changed when I held it more or less tightly or put the probes against hands and heads of others.

[gerryarmstrong]

Thanks for this informative and interesting video.

[Desertphile]

$3800 for $30 worth of parts, and every Meter Monkey doing "auditing" is not only required to buy two, but to send the meters back to the crime syndicate for "calibration" every year.

Hey, this is a RELIGION folks! (Smirk!)

[NoWattz]

What were the part transistor part numbers? I had come across a schematic of the mark V and it called for 2n1303's. Also, You can mess with the e-meter ability to read by putting antiperspirant on your hands as long as you can stand the incredible itching that will ensue. You can amplify the reaction by putting saltwater and glycerin and letting them dry.

[AnonMan479]

I believe it would blend

[milkkart]

just out of interest where did you get it? if you don't mind saying of course.

[4G3NTanon]

I'm another disgruntled customer of

Co$ of course.

Peace

A G E N T

[scilonthreat]

And to think, they are selling this crap on Ebay for hundreds, even thousands of dollars.

[NotSoOldHippy]

Gee. I want to purchase a dozen! I'm that fucking stupid.

[nogodscanuck]

Yes, it was very informative. Thanks for posting.

An another nail in their coffin of bullshit.

[nenaoa]

Thank you

[FreedomToResearch]

Will it Blend ?

[leerwesen]

when i eyed the hammer i was hoping you'd smash the shit out of it at the end :)

[4G3NTanon]

I actually considered doing just that, but it

would serve no long term purpose. It is a reminder I spent $760 on that piece of crap.

As Scottie said, "Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, shame on me."

[EnturbulatedCapitol]

$760?!

...Well, I suppose it DID enhance our learningz; but holy shit.

I want to ask if you'd be willing to post a series on how to reverse engineer one of these, but I can't figure out what I'd do if I built one of my own anyway. :-/

[organon315]

It'd be great for showing how the "Free Stress Test" is a sham. Would be useful at protests, or just whenever they set up their recruiting stand.

[madmentalking]

Well done! Very informative!!!

[Ironhead097]

emeters don't brainwash people, scientologists brainwash people! lol! if you were to venture a geuss in the cost of building a mark7 compared to the mark5, what do you think the differance if price be? I understand that the mark7 has an lcd display, as opposed to the needle...but I can neither confirm or deny that. and what the hell is the 1/4 inch jack for???

[TheEvilOfScientology]

I've heard from a few sources that current e-meter costs around $100-$150 to manufacture. Even doubling or tripling that amount would make it a complete and utter rip-off considering what the church charges its victims to purchase!

The e-meter is just one more thing in a long, long line of crappy rip-off products (books, courses, tapes, seminars blah, blah, blah) the church tries to sell to the weak-minded.

God bless MLM marketing!

[Ironhead097]

yes, primerica would be proud.

[4G3NTanon]

I understand that the mark7 has an lcd display, as opposed to the needle...but I can neither confirm or deny that. and what the hell is the 1/4 inch jack for???

Well, I was around when the Mark7 came out &

I thought the display would be LCD also.

Turns out it still is just a standard old

analog meter in a new case, with an LCD CLOCK!

The 1/4" jack is the place where the cans plug in. Cheap & simple LOL. It is very typical,

re-package, re-issue, sell again!

[Nassifutz]

Excellent Video! I like the inside commentary :-) lol