From: fangsdad_at_yahoo.com
Date: 2001-11-14 00:32:16
No it is not.
>From a compliance standpoint it's the best way to go, any direct
patient contact must have significant isolation from any possible
electrical input.
This looks like the best way to do that.
Tracy
--- In buildcheapeeg_at_yahoogroups.com, michalchik_at_aol.com wrote:
> I can understand that you have safety concerns, but I have been
> assembling and fixing computers for years now and have yet to get
> shocked by one. The voltage after it gets out of the power supply
is
> limited to about 12 volts (on most past it is 5 or less).
>
> In addition there are simple electronic things that you can do to
> build in protections. Off the top of my head just running
groundwires
> blocked by zener diodes should be sufficient. They would instantly
> ground any voltage above a few volts.
>
> I don't think that even professional medical EEG's bother with
> optical isolation.
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