Hi,
I just started using the P9. I’m considering ordering a C5 as well. Just wondering, how long is the typical lifespan of these units. Thanks!
Depends on how well you take care of it.
I am currently wearing an A9 on my back that I built in 2014 (the original “older” model). I have two C5’s that I use on my bed when I sleep. I built them in 2017. The design has been upgraded since then, but I still use the original ones.
But then again, I still have the first tool that I built with my own hands in 1968. Basically a dowel rod with a pointy metal end hammered into it (a nail). I tend to take good care of my stuff.
It also depends on which part of the system you are asking about. The coils are designed to be durable, but like anything that you wear, it gets damaged easily and just contact with the human body is a very destructive environment. So, coils should be replaced as needed.
The main component of the system, the pulse generator, is designed with internal components that should last approximately 40 years. Things like audio jacks, buttons, and OLED screens wear out over time. But we can service these (usually) and replace them. We fix several units every week, and most are about 4 to 8 years old when returned for service. But most of the systems we sell, about 80% (roughly) never require service. These people seem to use them only occasionally and take good care of them.
And of course it also depends on how much you use it. This can range from “every day, all day and all night” to “once or twice every few months.”
For the average person, Micro-Pulse devices tend to last many years. We also can usually service them, so people are still using devices they bought more than a decade ago.
Some people buy them and promptly run over them with a car/truck, or drop them in the toilet. This also happens.
So, I would say it depends on how much you use it and how well you take care of it.
@Bob thank you for the insight. I currently run the P9 all night (8hrs) on delta (between 6 and 8 intensity) due to my insomnia. I also wear it a couple hours during the day due to brain fog/inflammation (omni 8 or gamma at varied intensity).
That’s one reason I was considering a C5. So I can run the P9 strictly at night, and the C5 for pain/inflammation during the day (and try to get my wife to use it for her hip pain as well) and hopefully get both units to last a long time.
I try not to be rough on my stuff in order to get it to last. I did drop the P9 once on the floor because it fell out of my pocket.
All of my units are working great after many years - 2 M1s, 1 A9, 1 C5, 1 P9. One of the m1s had something akin to a cold solder joint around the input jack and it was extraordinarily affordable to have it repaired and sent back. Amazing. 40 years!?!?! Awesome. I wish my air conditioning unit, hot water heater, and refrigerator were designed to last that long.
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