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Please don't try to feed a voltage into the patients -- most of them won't like being electrocuted!

Your best hope would be to try and monitor the capacitance between the lead and the patient. This would allow a passive (no voltage into the patients) monitoring system.

But you'll have to find out the biomechanics of this on your own...

2006-11-26 19:59:26 · answer #1 · answered by sd_ducksoup 6 · 0 0

In a lot of auto-control applications, a resister is placed across the open circuit on the device - if the lead is disconnected, the self test module will not "see" this resistance and will trigger a code to indicate an open or disconnected circuit.
A known small voltage is fed on the circuit and the return voltage is monitored - this set up will detect both an open circuit or a short circuit.
Instead of triggering a defect code, it could just as easily trigger a simple green LED (connected) or a red LED (disconnected).
An even simpler method might be to just complete the circuit to a green LED at the connection - if it becomes dislodged, the green LED will be off..

2006-11-26 20:53:31 · answer #2 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0 1

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