DROP AS MUCH AS TWENTY DIALS

indicates that an incident with very heavy charge has been contacted. A drop (later called a fall) is the movement of the needle on the E-Meter dial to the right as you face the meter. A drop may consist of about a quarter of an inch or may consist of fifteen or twenty dials (the whole meter face dropped fifteen or twenty times) where the Tone Arm has to be moved to the left to keep the needle on the dial. Dropping twenty dials would mean that the needle kept falling the full dial each time the Tone Arm was moved to bring the needle back on the dial. —History of Man Glossary (app. 11.7.90)

indicates that an incident with very heavy charge has been contacted. A drop (later called a fall) is the movement of the needle on the E-Meter dial to the right as you face the meter. A drop may consist of about a quarter of an inch or may consist of fifteen or twenty dials (the whole meter face dropped fifteen or twenty times) where the Tone Arm has to be moved to the left to keep the needle on the dial. Dropping twenty dials would mean that the needle kept falling the full dial each time the Tone Arm was moved to bring the needle back on the dial.