Sota Bio Tuner BT9 User manual

How-to Video
Bio Tuner BT9
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Transcription
Hello. I’ll be demonstrating
the use of the SOTA Bio
Tuner. The Bio Tuner shown
here is our latest model, the Model
BT9. Please remember to read your
Bio Tuner manual, it’s lled with
great information, trouble shooting,
cautions and just everything about
the operation specications of the
unit. It’s important to read your
manual.
Inserting the Battery
The Bio Tuner is powered by a 9-Volt
Alkaline style battery shown here. The battery that you have may have a protective covering
over the terminals, just please remember to peel that protective covering off to expose the
battery terminals and here’s a battery with the protective covering removed. Remember to
use Alkaline style batteries and not heavy duty. Heavy duty batteries just simply don’t have
the capacity of the alkalines and the alkalines allow
your battery to do the greatest efciency for your unit
and operate properly.
To insert the battery into your Bio Tuner is very simple.
You turn your Bio Tuner over and remove the battery
compartment lid and inside there are two plastic rings.
There’s a larger negative ring at the bottom and a
smaller positive ring at the top and that’s how to align
the battery as we put it into the unit but I need to
show you this rst. Inside there are two spring metal
contacts and they are meant to touch the battery terminals. If they’re not already pulled
forward you need to get in there, grab it with your nger and pull them forward, like on
about a 45 degree angle. They’re made out of spring metal; you can’t hurt it, so just bring
it forward. Take your battery, align it correctly with the plastic rings, push it in, snap it into
place, put your battery lid back on.

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Now turn the unit over and turn it on. Right away it will go into Mode 1 and the green light
will be on. And at this point it tells me your battery is working great, the unit is powered up
and we’re ready to go.
Rechargeable Batteries
You may also use rechargeable batteries. I have a nickel metal hydride 9-Volt battery shown
here. The rechargeables work really well, you can use nickel-cadmium, lithium but the only
thing is the battery sizes can vary and we have no control over that so if it’s possible see if
your battery, before you commit to purchasing it, will t in the unit and that way you can
obviously buy with condence. But they work very well.
Low Battery Warning
Now when you turn your unit on and you have a low battery you might see the low battery
warning light come on. That’s the red light in the bottom corner. If you see a red low battery
warning light it’s time to replace your battery. You’ll have a little bit more time left but this is
telling you that it’s near the end of the battery’s life and
it’s time to replace it.
Connecting the Cord to the Unit
Okay the next step now is to connect our cord to the
Bio Tuner unit. Our cord has a USB style connector on
one side, shown here. And please remember not to plug
this USB cord into your computer and don’t plug any
computer cords into our Bio Tuner. They’re completely
different and not compatible. Hopefully you can see that
there’s a small symbol on the one side of the Bio Tuner
cord that shows the top of the plug. And it’s very simple,
that orientates correctly with the unit in this fashion and
you simply plug it into place.
Connect the Ear Clips to the Cord
On the other end of the cord we have these little gold
pins. And just make sure that they’re clean and wiped clean with maybe tissue paper before
you put the ear clips on. These are the ear clips that are going to t into the cord and on the
end of the ear clip there’s a small hole where the pin gets inserted. Very simple, you take
your metal pin and you kind of turn it and push it into place and make sure that it goes in
fully and is fully inserted. And I’ll put the second one on. Just roll it into place and just make
sure that there’s no exposed pin. And that you can see is nice and tight tting.
The next thing we want to do now is to put a drop of water on the end of the ear clips. So

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you just get your drop of water with your water dropper bottle and you take the ear clips,
open them up— it’s a little bit difcult to do here. And then you put one drop. And I’ll put
that back. And we just want to now take a piece of tissue paper and just clean that off. Just
to make sure there’s no residue left from your previous session. And I’ll do the same on the
second ear clip, put one drop of water, which is done. And then I’ll just clean that off. Now we
know that it’s ready to be clipped onto my ear.
Placing Ear Clips on Ear Lobes
Now this cord can be pulled apart so I can easily place the clips onto
my ear. The rst thing you want to do is take your rst clip, get
another drop of water, this is now the conductive drop of water that
you’re placing on here, just a little bit more, there we are. It will
bead up on the end of the electrode. These are conductive rubber
electrodes so we need to have a conductive medium, water, in order
to transmit the electricity properly and then I’m going to take the ear
clip and I’m going to clip it onto my earlobe as tight and as close into
the TMJ point as I can. That’s a correct placement. I need to pull this
wire apart slightly and I’m going to put a drop of water on the second
ear clip. You’ll see it bead up a bit. And I’m going to place that on the
second earlobe. And that’s a correct orientation.
Turn the Unit On
Now when I turn the unit on the rst thing—what will happen as I turn it on here, I can feel
it already, it goes into Mode 1 and that will be the green light on Mode 1. And I can turn it up
and control the intensity with the dial. There’s also a yellow indication light that may not be
on when we’re doing this setup right now. That is used later on for troubleshooting and I’ll go
over that later. It may or may not be on, don’t worry about it.
What It Feels Like
Right now you should be feeling the pulse. This is a pleasant kind of buzzing sensation. You
may feel the pulse more in one ear than the other. That’s completely normal. Remember that
both have to be connected in order to provide electrical current.
Now sometimes you might use a little bit of conductive gel, even an aloe vera gel, you can
put that on the ear clips and clip them on. It will maybe make it a little bit more comfortable.
It all depends on how you feel with the ear clips. If you’re comfortable with water just use
water. Again, you can use aloe vera gel or conductive gel.
So I’ll just turn, actually you can see that the yellow light is on with my session here. If you
want to change modes rst please turn the dial down. Sorry I turned it off. But turn the dial

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down, change to different modes and then reposition the intensity for that second mode
or the third mode, just turn it down a bit. That way you don’t jolt to a mode that has more
intensity, so that way you don’t get a surprise. Again, adjust it to what’s comfortable and
that’s how you power up your Bio Tuner.
Placing the Arm Band
Okay I’d like to demonstrate a nice little feature that
we have, it’s the Arm Clip and Band. The Arm Clip
and Band is meant to hold your Bio Tuner on your
arm or your bicep or in this case I’ll be putting it on
my forearm. And it’s just convenient for you to walk
around with the unit or of course you can just put the
unit in your pocket and walk around with it.
It’s real simple; it’s got a Velcro®type material. You open it up and basically open it to the
size of your arm. Take the material and tighten it up. You don’t over tighten it; you’re not
trying to cut the circulation off. Just make it comfortable. And on the back of the Bio Tuner
there’s a little clip assembly and it just clicks into place. And it’s quite convenient; I can turn
it on and off, turn up the intensity. And like I say, it also works well by connecting it to your
bicep.
The Six Modes
Now the Bio Tuner itself has six different modes. Each
mode I like to look at as a comfort setting. It helps you not
to acclimatize to any one particular mode. In each mode
it’s 1,000 Hertz, pulse modulated by 111.11 Hertz. That’s
present in all six modes, so one mode is not better than
another. So you may have a personal favorite. So just try it
out, see which one resonates with you the best and that’s
the mode that you may want to use for that day.
Built-In Timer
The Bio Tuner also has a built in 20-minute timer. The timer will — as soon as you turn it on
the timer starts and it’s a continual timer meaning that if you start in Mode 1 let’s say for 15
minutes and then you jump to Mode 2 then you’ll have ve minutes left over in Mode 2 and
then the timer will time out. When the timer times out the unit will beep and we go into what
we call sleep mode and sleep mode just means that the battery draw is much lower to help
conserve the battery. The mode light will just ash. And what you need to do is simply turn
it off. You need to reset the unit. You won’t be able to change modes at this point; you just
need to reset it. So you turn the unit off, it shuts everything off, and restart it and go back

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into that mode.
Length of Session
The unit has a built in 20-minute timer. One session
can be 1 to 2 cycles (20-40 minutes). The unit
can be used daily for up to 3 sessions, spaced
throughout the day. So basically you can do 20
minutes, you can do that every day if you’d like, you
can do 40 minutes every day if you like. You can
even do three sessions of 20 minutes a day; let’s
say morning, noon and evening. You can do three
sessions of 40 minutes.
And then when you’re doing it, it would make good
sense to do it for the entire month, preferably
longer. It often takes at least 30 consecutive days of
use to experience benets. So you want to do it for a minimum of a month to get the results
that you’re looking for and then from there you can go further and experiment. And really it’s
about experimenting which works best for you.
Troubleshooting
Okay I’d like to talk a bit about troubleshooting in case you run into any kind of issues.
Probably one of the rst things is, I don’t feel the pulse or it feels unusual or prickly. Let’s
start with that. The prickly feeling may just simply indicate that you need to re-wet the ear
clips. You’ll want to take the ear clips off, put another drop of water on, and reposition them.
It’s as simple as that.
For some people though, you might need to clean the area where you’re clipping it on the
earlobes with mild soap and water and then just dry it and reapply the ear clips with a drop
of water. Another thing which really helps is the use of conductive gel. That’s that kind of
slippery gel that you can get at any medical supply store and it’s real nice. You can moisten
the earlobe with it and then reclip the ear clip on and that helps really well for that feeling.
What it does, it allows for better electrical connection and that’s really what we’re trying to do
here.
The other thing to try, if you’re sensitive maybe to conductive gel, you could just try
something more natural like aloe vera gel. That works very well as a conductive medium. And
I think from trying that you’ll nd that it’s a much more pleasant feeling. Obviously you know
you want to make sure that you’re not turning it up too much. If you turn it up too much
you’re going to get that kind of an unpleasant feeling. So keep the level at an intensity that’s
comfortable for you.