A Night on a Cheap Frequency Box Takes Nine Trips Out of Bed. We Counted.
Two devices, two nights, one notebook on the nightstand. The cheap box's night is logged press by press. The other night is logged as nothing happening.
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The experiment was simple. Load the same ten-frequency program into two devices, a forty-dollar box and the Sequence Pro, run each for a full night, and write down every time a hand had to touch it.
Night one: the box
- Set to the first frequency. Lamp off.
- The program calls for the second frequency. Up, find the box in the dark, press the button, back to bed. Entry one.
- Entry two. The display is bright enough to read and bright enough to wake on.
- Entries three, four and five. By the fourth the notebook handwriting is worse than the first.
- Six, seven, eight. The ninth change is the last frequency, at 7:00am, which is also roughly when the night ends anyway.
Nine trips. A ten-frequency program has nine handoffs, and on a device with one button, every handoff is a person awake.
Entry six, 4:02am: pressed the button. Could not remember which number I was on.
Night two: the Sequence Pro
- First dial to the program, second dial to the timer. Lamp off.
The next entry in the notebook is 6:40am: "Woke up. Light on the device is off. Display dark." Between those two entries there is nothing, because nothing required a hand. The device moved through all ten frequencies on its own, one handoff at a time, and switched itself off when the timer ended.
What the notebook shows
The two devices were given the same job and the same numbers. One of them needed nine interventions to do it and the other needed none, and that difference has nothing to do with the frequencies and everything to do with who is expected to be awake. The box's design assumes a person. The Sequence Pro's design assumes a person asleep.
There is a second difference the notebook can't show, which is the shape of the signal, a square wave from the box and a pure sine wave through a gold-plated coil from the Sequence Pro. That one needs an oscilloscope, and it has its own article.
The Sequence Pro is $199.99. The Complete System is $249.99 and ships free, in the order it is bought. Nine trips is the price of the alternative.