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The design and construction of this position sensing and positive feedback device should easily suffice for the purposes of isometric muscle experiments. The only adjustment which needs to be made to the circuit is that of the AGC thresholds, VR5 & 6. The output of the circuit is suitable for direct connection to servcontroller equipment, to alter the length of the muscle as required. Extensive testing (section 4) showed that the characteristics of the device, including linearity, immunity to intensity variations, and response times, were all excellent. In most cases the performance of the device exceeds what is required of it by an order of magnitude, such that it could also find many other applications. For example, it could be used to measure the sarcomere length, while muscle tension is kept constant.
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