Taser X3 - Manual (Page 8)

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• Yelling or screaming;
• Involuntary strong muscle contractions;
• Freezing in place with legs locked;
• Dazed feeling for several seconds or minutes;
• Potential vertigo;
• Temporary tingling sensation; or
• Critical stress amnesia (may not remember any pain).
For a full list of warnings, visit www.TASER.com.
Basic X3 Electrical Theory
• Electricity must be able to flow between the probes or the electrodes.
• Electricity generally follows the path of least resistance between the probes.
• The greater the spread between the probes on the target, generally the greater the NMI effectiveness.
• Electricity will generally not pass to others in contact with the subject unless contact is made directly
between or on the probes.
• Electricity can arc through clothing, and even some bullet-resistant materials.
• Exposure to water will not cause electrocution or increase the power to the subject (the electrical charge is
fixed inside the TASER ECD, and will not increase significantly even with environmental changes).
• The X3 ECD’s Rotational-Pulse Drive™ rotates discharges across the three cartridge bays. This alternation
of pulsed output across multiple cartridges allows a single X3 ECD to incapacitate up to three subjects
simultaneously with the same effectiveness previously only possible with three separate ECDs.
• The Rotational Pulse Drive supports cross connection, or X-Connect™ technology, which can make the X3
ECD effective even if some probes from multiple cartridges do not hit the target. As long as one top probe
and one bottom probe hit the subject, the NMI circuit can be completed, even if the probes were deployed
from different cartridges.
• The Precision Shaped Pulse™ Pulse Calibration System (PCS)™ is designed to adjust current to meet
situational requirements. If two probes strike a target and one contact is weak, the ECD will adapt to
enhance the weaker contact’s effectiveness. If all probes from two or more cartridges strike the same
target, the PCS is designed to adjust so the effect on the target is same as that of a solid contact from a
single cartridge.
• Medical studies have found that modern pacemakers and implanted cardiac defibrillators withstand
external electrical defibrillators many orders of magnitude stronger than the TASER conducted energy
pulses.
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