Building and testing my design for a handhold-current-indicating form of HRClark type Zapper that also has dual duty

cycle option

Here is the layout and schematic. Page 1 of 6

This is one of my best HRC-based zapper designs and made easy and cheap to build, starting with a "LED Flasher kit" from All Electronics (http://www.allelectronics.com/) (cost about $3 for the kit although mostly just using the kit's printed circuit board and a few of its electronic parts.) I used a small plastic food storage container as its chassis. Oddly, most of my records have vanished re this instrument's development, done 2 years ago; so here is what is easily available right now for this page, and ought to be enough for someone with some familiarity with building electronic gizmos to reproduce it. At this point one would need to create their own parts list from the schematic and layout shown above, to build this gizmo. It features a handhold current indicating LED; a buffered output for solid output waveform despite varying circuit load; using a low battery usage CMOS IC circuit; and a dual duty cycle mode to select the usual 35% duty cycle and also its complementary waveform, 65% duty cycle. Frequency is set for the usual zapper 30 KHz range pulse repetition rate, 9 Volt peak output. One of this design's best features is the use of the CMOS 555 IC's FET that shorts to ground during the low-going part of the output signal; but in this design, this FET (pin 7 of the IC) is used to provide a fast dump of the charge absorbed by the body each positive part of the output cycle, dumping the charge through a LED so the amplitude of this current is quite visible to the experimenter; this shows that the entire circuit is working in use, as well as a qualitative measure of the zapping current through the user, including the adequacy of the dampness of the layer of wet paper towel covering the copper tubing handholds.

Here it is upside down, but powered up and output also loaded by handholds, the green LED showing handhold current, its green LED's output light intensity is a function of the actual handhold current, thus providing feedback to the experimenter as to continuity of output circuit and load. The red LED is a power-on indicator.

Above photo is of the inside of chassis showing battery compartment and handhold output connector, which is the handset connector used on older telephones; one might easily choose another kind of connector for the wires to the copper tubing handholds, or even hardwire to the circuit and not use a connector.

Sitting on the assembly diagram and schematic.

My Instek oscilloscope showing the standard zapper 35% duty cycle output waveform. The

65% duty cycle waveform option is the inverse of this one; that is, the part that is low voltage here is the part that is the high voltage part of the waveform.

As examined a couple years later, here is the top of the zapper, showing label, and sitting on the descriptive printed assembly and schematic document which is kept inside the unit, folded up, to help with any troubleshooting needed in future years. This one uses the telephone handset connector for the standard output wire connection, so as to use the standard commercial type zapper output wire harness and its snap connectors for connection to wetpaper-towel covered copper tubing handholds or stick-on electrodes of various types, in the experiments. It can be helpful to include the documentation inside the device, as shown.

A front view of the zapper.

And a bottom view, with the bottom cover off, showing the fairly primitive construction yet does the job.

This design was intended for possible use in emergency times, reproducable by others wishing to experiment with it, building their own. The thought originally was that this would be possibly useful in the event of a new plague or pathogen problem that was not responding to standard protocols, or available quickly enough everywhere; and this thing, unlikely as it seems, might save a lot of lives, by perhaps

increasing their odds for survival. Although HRClark-based Zappers are widely used around the world these days due to their obvious efficacy, they are not legal to be used to help other people here in America, just for one' own experiments; we are such a business protected territory dominated place, so unfortunate for the citizens. But one can still build it and test it for themselves, anyway; we still have that much freedom left (I hope.) Thus, of course, this document requires the standard disclaimer, that this document is educational material only; and nothing here is for enabling people to be healthy; and to seek the advise of licensed health personnel before using information contained herein for purposes involving maintenance of health; the author is not a doctor nor health professional, and the user assumes all responsibility for using this educational document. Additionally, it might be noted that H R Clark's books describing the construction and usage of her basic Zapper concept (dating back to 1995, about fourteen years of general usage now), say the Zapper is not to be used by pregnant women nor people who use a pacemaker, due to insufficient testing under those circumstances. A reference: The Cure For All Diseases by Hulda R. Clark, PhD.