Taser X2 - Manual (Page 8)

8 Chapter 2 General Information
A subject with a very high tolerance to pain (e.g., a drug abuser, person in serious psychological distress, or
a trained, focused fighter) might not be affected by the pain or might be able to fight through the pain of a
traditional stun gun.
Basic X2 CEW Electrical Theory
• Electricity must be able to flow between the probes or the electrodes to deliver an electrical charge and
will generally follow the path of least resistance.
• The greater the spread between the probes on the target, generally the greater the effectiveness.
• Electricity will generally not pass to others in contact with the subject unless contact is made directly
between or on the probes, or the wires are touched.
• Electricity can arc through most clothing, and even some bullet-resistant materials.
• Exposure to water will not increase the power to the subject (the delivered electrical charge is fixed inside
the TASER CEW, and will not increase significantly even with environmental changes).
• The X2 CEW’s Rotational-Pulse Drive™ technology rotates discharges across the 2 cartridge bays. This
alternation of pulsed output across multiple cartridges allows a single X2 CEW to affect up to 2 subjects
simultaneously but was primarily designed to give the operator an immediate back up shot in case of a
miss.
• The Rotational Pulse Drive technology supports cross connection, or X Connect™ technology, which
can make the X2 CEW effective even if some probes do not hit the target. As long as one top probe and
one bottom probe hit the subject, the circuit can be completed, even if the probes were deployed from
different cartridges.
• The Current Metering technology is designed to deliver optimal output.
• Medical studies have found that modern pacemakers and implanted cardiac defibrillators withstand
external electrical defibrillators many orders of magnitude stronger than the TASER CEW conducted energy
pulses.