Gromako Data & Services Derminator 2 User manual

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INSTRUCTIONS
Revision: 1.8 – Nov 8, 2020
Cartridges for the Derminator®2 can not be used on the older machine and vice versa.
owndoc.shop is the only place that sells correctly working cartridges for this machine.
Derminator
®
2 info page with videos and link to store:
http://derminator.com/
The latest version of this user manual:
http://derminator.com/Derminator2-instructions.pdf
How to properly attach the rubber feet to the machine:
http://derminator.com/Mounting-the-rubber-feet.pdf

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................................................. 2
READ FIRST: VITAL DERMANEEDLING INFO...................................................................................................................... 4
WARNING & DISCLAIMER ............................................................................................................................................. 4
INTRODUCING THE DERMINATOR 2 ................................................................................................................................. 5
Cartridges, speed and depth......................................................................................................................................... 5
No microtearing ............................................................................................................................................................ 5
Timer ............................................................................................................................................................................. 5
NO MICROTEARING WITH THE DERMINATOR.................................................................................................................. 6
IMPORTANT PRECAUTIONS .............................................................................................................................................. 7
CARTRIDGE MOUNTING.................................................................................................................................................... 8
HAND UNIT CLEANING ...................................................................................................................................................... 8
CARTRIDGE DISINFECTION ................................................................................................................................................ 9
DERMINATOR NEEDLING TECHNIQUE ............................................................................................................................10
THE DISPLAY EXPLAINED ................................................................................................................................................. 11
TIMER FEATURE FOR OPTIMAL TREATMENT.................................................................................................................. 14
MANUALLY CALCULATING TREATMENT TIME ................................................................................................................16
COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS ............................................................................................................................................ 17
FCC .............................................................................................................................................................................. 17
CANADA ...................................................................................................................................................................... 17
EU................................................................................................................................................................................ 17
WARRANTY POLICY ......................................................................................................................................................... 18
CARE & MAINTENANCE................................................................................................................................................... 19
ERROR MESSAGES........................................................................................................................................................... 20
MAGNET BAD/STUCK OR BAD CARTRIDGE.................................................................................................................20
MAGNET REMOVED OR ATTRACTED OUT .................................................................................................................. 21
MAGNET FLEW OUT! FIND IT/BUY NEW..................................................................................................................... 21
TROUBLESHOOTING........................................................................................................................................................ 22
BUTTONS DO NOT WORK ........................................................................................................................................... 22
DEAD DISPLAY ............................................................................................................................................................. 22

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MACHINE DOES NOT NEEDLE AT ALL BUT DISPLAY WORKS....................................................................................... 22
NEEDLES DO NOT COME OUT DEEP AT ALL OR SCRATCH ..........................................................................................23
NEEDLES DO NOT SEEM TO PENETRATE THE SKIN ENOUGH......................................................................................24
TECHNICIAN’S MENU ...................................................................................................................................................... 26
Firmware version ........................................................................................................................................................26
Magnet monitor..........................................................................................................................................................26
Swap warning.............................................................................................................................................................. 26
Show Hall value...........................................................................................................................................................26
MagnetMissingCnt ......................................................................................................................................................26
Dlt-HallTreshold .......................................................................................................................................................... 26
StartPulseLength.........................................................................................................................................................26
HallMarginFFNPls........................................................................................................................................................26
MinPulseLength .......................................................................................................................................................... 27
FastFreq....................................................................................................................................................................... 27
FastDelay..................................................................................................................................................................... 27
LCDDelay .....................................................................................................................................................................27
Recalibrate ..................................................................................................................................................................27
Factory Reset ..............................................................................................................................................................27

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READ FIRST: VITAL DERMANEEDLING INFO
Before using the Derminator® 2, read our dermaneedling instructions available on
http://dermaroller.owndoc.com/dermaroller-instructions.pdf.
These instructions are essential because they contain important safety-
and treatment guidelines as well as advice on how often to treat, and with which
products to pre-treat, after-treat and treat during the actual needling procedure.
WARNING & DISCLAIMER
The Derminator®2 is a medical device, used to administer an invasive medical
treatment procedure to the skin. Improper use or over-use can result in
permanent disfigurement. The use of Corticosteroids or plant sterols that impair
healing, such as those found in herbs like Sarsaparilla could also result in
permanent disfigurement. The patient should not use any supplements,
medications or skin products with medicinally active chemicals that interfere
with skin healing. Skin products used during or shortly after dermaneedling
should be critically examined for potentially troublesome ingredients. Needle
cartridges should be inspected before use on the presence of bent needle tips. The
same needle cartridge should never be used on different people and cartridges
should always be sterilized directly after use or they should be discarded.
THE DERMINATOR®2 DEVICE IS SOLD “AS IS” UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT ITS USER,
BEFORE USING THE DEVICE, FULLY READ AND FULLY UNDERSTOOD THIS MANUAL AS WELL
OUR GENERAL DERMANEEDLING INSTRUCTIONS AVAILABLE AT THE WEB ADDRESSES
PROVIDED ON PAGE 1. BY PROVIDING INSTRUCTIONS AND GENERAL GUIDELINES AND ADVICE
WE DO NOT ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR A NEGATIVE TREATMENT OUTCOME.
OUR GUIDELINES ARE THE OPINIONS OF LAYPEOPLE AND NOT MEDICAL ADVICE.
IT IS AGAINST OUR TERMS TO USE THIS MACHINE UNLESS ITS OPERATOR AND/OR PATIENT
ASSUME FULL LEGAL LIABILITY FOR THE TREATMENT OUTCOME AND WILL INDEMNIFY US
AGAINST DAMAGES, REAL OR PERCEIVED.

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INTRODUCING THE DERMINATOR 2
CARTRIDGES, SPEED AND DEPTH
Cartridges are available with 1, 9 or 12 needles. They have a silicone spring/sleeve to
prevent blood from entering the device.
The needling speed can be slow (3 Hz), medium (5 Hz) or fast (25 Hz). The slower
speeds are rarely used, mainly to emulate a dermastamp or single needle, when very
precise treatment of very small areas are required.
The needling depth is set with a push button and can be set to 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.25,
1.5, 1.75, 2, 2.25 or 2.5 mm. Using a “trick” (falsely claiming to the machine that a 9- or
12-needle cartridge is mounted), the 1-needle cartridge will needle 1 mm deeper than
set, for a depth range from 1.25 to 3.5 mm. This depth can cause nerve injury and is
only to be used on the rare type of scar tissue that needs such a depth, and should
only be used by a dermatologist or plastic surgeon.
NO MICROTEARING
To avoid microtearing, a very powerful motor is a necessity in order to make the
needles move in & out extremely quickly, and making the machine run on a
rechargeable battery would therefore be impractical and very expensive. Competing
(Chinese-made) devices are based on permanent makeup hardware and are much too
feeble to be used for safe dermaneedling. They do not reach the advertised depth and
they all cause more or less skin tearing.
TIMER
The Derminator®2 is able to count down the time required to optimally treat a skin
patch of a certain area by calculating the treatment time required based on the needling
frequency used to automatically result in the optimal prick density. All you do is set
inches or cm, input width and length of the skin area and start needling with any
variety of speeds. The machine will stop automatically when the skin has been treated
optimally. All the user needs to do is move the machine smoothly at least once over the
entire area during the allotted, calculated treatment time, which is constantly displayed
as it counts down.

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NO MICROTEARING WITH THE DERMINATOR
This is what “micro”-tearing looks like. It is caused by a dermaneedling machine’s
motor not having sufficient accelerating power to push the needles in quickly and pull
them back out just as fast:
We have a video on our sales page where we use a microscope and needle paper with
our device and another device. Anyone who has doubts about the above picture is
encouraged to repeat the experiment and post the results online. We tested several
more devices such as the Korean mCure and they all caused extreme tearing. We hope
others will repeat our experiment with our machine and other machines and post their
results online. Microtearing rips the edges of pores, causing permanent pore
enlargement. Only a very powerful motor can move the needles in & out in a few
milliseconds. That is why the Derminator®2 is much louder than Chinese “pen” devices,
and has a much larger motor part.
Chinese companies simply “recycled” their underpowered permanent makeup pens.
Those feeble, overpriced “buzzers” will give electric dermaneedling a bad name, just
like the dermarollers that have 540 stamped Titanium “knives” instead of real needles
are causing permanent injury and thus give dermaneedling a bad name.

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IMPORTANT PRECAUTIONS
•When using the 1-needle cartridge, do not tell the machine that a 9- or 12-needle
cartridge is mounted, or the machine will needle 1 mm deeper than indicated!
•Do not reuse needle cartridges on different people. It is always best to discard
needle cartridges after use, but they can be re-used, as long as you only use them
on the same person and always clean and disinfect the cartridge directly after
use.
•Do not pour water or other liquids into the hand unit’s opening. You can use a
cotton swab, moistened with alcohol at the most. Water will corrode the sensor
electronics inside the machine, which will result in it refusing to operate.
•Do not pour water onto the outside of the hand unit, since it is not water proof,
and water may corrode the sensor electronics.
•Do not use a disinfecting chemical spray on the hand unit, because certain
popular disinfectant mixtures weaken the plastic cover, causing it to crack, when
gripped firmly.
•Especially initially, use one or more size shorter needle length and one week
longer interval than used with manual needling, when using the Derminator®
2. Pushing less hard will make the needles penetrate less. Do not use the timer
function initially, since it uses an algorithm for a very thorough (medically
optimal for regeneration) treatment.
•Only use the highest repetition rate and/or longer needle lengths when you have
experience with the lower repetition rates/shorter needle lengths already, and
only after you have done a test patch with the higher repetition rate/needle
length. Even the 0.25 mm setting can cause pain and redness and even
pinpoint bleeding because the Derminator’s needles penetrate deeper than
those of a dermaroller or dermastamp of equivalent needle length, and it
makes many more stamps per minute than you can make with a dermastamp.
Also competing electric devices, due to their weak motor, penetrate less deep
than they claim. Always do a very conservative test patch first and then wait!
Do not needle too long over the same skin patch if you have not seen how the skin
reacts to intensive needling yet. Always do a test patch first!

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•Keep the device moving constantly and evenly over the skin when using the
device.
•Keep the cartridge moving over the skin, without lifting it.
•Do not push the cartridge too hard onto the skin.
•Do not hold the cartridge under an angle but flat onto the skin.
•Never use needle cartridges not made by us! Even though they may fit, they all
have a very different needle length, causing incorrect needling depth even though
the machine will think it’s working correctly.
CARTRIDGE MOUNTING
Bajonet fitting. Align the slots in the cartridge with the protrusions on the tip of the
hand unit, push the cartridge on and while pushing, rotate the cartridge right a quarter
turn until you start to feel resistance, then stop turning at the point of maximum
resistance.
CARTRIDGE LIFETIME
The question “how long do the needle cartridges last” is unanswerable, since this
depends on how many times the cartridge has been plunged into the skin, which
depends on needling frequency, skin area, treatment frequency and the thickness of the
particular skin. All we can say is that generally, cartridges can be reused one or more
times and specifically, that they have become blunt when treatment starts to be more
painful than it was when the cartridge was new.
HAND UNIT CLEANING
If it looks like blood or gliding serum may have penetrated past the cartridge’s
protective silicone spring/shroud and entered the hand unit, the is a risk that if you
don’t clean the inside of the hand unit, that this residue dies up and ends up “glueing”
the reciprocating magnet shut into its tube.
Watch this video https://youtu.be/aTLGUPS-czk on how to prevent this by cleaning the hand
unit and magnet after a “messy” needling session.

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CARTRIDGE DISINFECTION
Cartridges must be immediately cleaned and disinfected after use, if you want to reuse
them. For this there are two options: CHLORAMINE-T or ISOPROPANOL.
If you want to use Chloramine-T: Mix the contents (20 g) of our Chloramine-T
product into a litre / quarter gallon of lukewarm water. Use a plastic bottle and shake
until it’s dissolved. This liquid is more than a mere disinfectant – it actually sterilizes
things.
After-use disinfection procedure for cartridges:
•Within 5 minutes after use, drip some dishwashing detergent onto the needle(s)
and, while holding it under a strong stream of lukewarm tap water, move the
plunger GENTLY and NOT TOO DEEP OR THE SILICONE SPRING IS
PERMANENTLY MADE UNUSABLE until the soapy solution has enveloped the
needles. Keep moving and rinsing until the detergent has been flushed away, also
from inside the cartridge.
•Then pour some Chloramine-T solution or Isopropanol 70 to 100% into a cup and
add the cartridges to it. Make circling motions with the cup, so that the solution
swirls around the cartridges. Stick your fingers into the cup and operate the
cartridges’ plungers plunger GENTLY and NOT TOO DEEP while they’re
submerged. Leave the cartridges for one hour.
•When using Chloramine-T: Rinse the Chloramine-T out of the cartridges, one by
one, under a strong stream of lukewarm water, while operating the plungers
plunger GENTLY and NOT TOO DEEP. Tap water does not contain harmful
pathogens and even the rare occasional intestinal water-borne parasite is
completely unable to infect (via the) skin.
•Leave the cartridges to completely dry in a dust-free spot (and not near a toilet
bowl or place where pets have access!) before reuse.

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DERMINATOR NEEDLING TECHNIQUE
When needling with the 9/12-needle cartridges, the hand unit should be held at a 90
degree angle with the skin, otherwise not all needles will penetrate to their full length.
Make sure that the entirety of the cartridge rim touches the skin.
Do not hover or brush slightly over the skin but apply moderate, constant pressure at
all times. This way, you can be assured that the needles penetrate the full length and
that the machine is able to regulate needling depth correctly. Do not push too hard, or
the skin is squeezed inside the cartridge rim and the result is deeper needling than
intended.
Always keep the device moving in a moderate circular motion, do overlapping spirals
with a few cm (1 inch) diameter, with a circling speed depending on the prick density
you want to achieve. Always keep the device moving at least slightly, such as not to
prick the exact same channels multiple times. Do not move the device in straight lines,
otherwise needling density will not be uniform but “stripey”.
As long as you keep moving in circles, it’s not so important how large those circles are
or how fast you’re circling or how quickly you’re navigating around the skin. The only
really important thing is to cover all of the to-be-treated skin more or less equally. But
you could and perhaps should put increased focus on skin that needs extra treatment.
There are many videos on YouTube, including our channel and on our site
http://derminator.com/ where the correct technique is demonstrated.
The linear movement technique shown for those weak Chinese “buzzers” is wrong, just
as we explained why the star pattern is wrong with manual dermaneedling. So the
proper way to move over the skin is a constant circling motion with small circles,
moving the hand around the skin while making small circles with the hand unit. Keep
circling and try to cover the entire patch equally at least one full time.
When needling with the single needle cartridge, no special movement technique is
required, but make sure you always keep moving. The single needle, since it’s also
designed to treat stretch marks, is usually NOT moved in circles.