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<blockquote data-quote="Mr_Pot" data-source="post: 2121406" data-attributes="member: 216415"><p>I was bored so I looked into this lancet question some more.....</p><p></p><p>As I thought the green and blue CareSens lancets are the same length but I have noticed the newer blue ones have a slightly different design, the needle is the same length but part of the needle is covered in plastic This is probably what you are seeing [USER=355878]@Resurgam[/USER]. However what determines the penetration is the distance from the tip of the needle to the square shoulder of the plastic as this shoulder hits a stop on the inside of the lancing device. If you have a basic lancing device like mine and you remove the screw cap and insert a used needle, pushing it into the cap you can see that only a short length of needle maybe 0.5mm protrudes even on the deepest setting, so the fact that part of the needle is covered doesn't make any difference.</p><p></p><p>The lancing device I got with my TEE2+ is called CareLance but I abandoned it and went back to my old SD one as the CareLance didn't always work.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]35224[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr_Pot, post: 2121406, member: 216415"] I was bored so I looked into this lancet question some more..... As I thought the green and blue CareSens lancets are the same length but I have noticed the newer blue ones have a slightly different design, the needle is the same length but part of the needle is covered in plastic This is probably what you are seeing [USER=355878]@Resurgam[/USER]. However what determines the penetration is the distance from the tip of the needle to the square shoulder of the plastic as this shoulder hits a stop on the inside of the lancing device. If you have a basic lancing device like mine and you remove the screw cap and insert a used needle, pushing it into the cap you can see that only a short length of needle maybe 0.5mm protrudes even on the deepest setting, so the fact that part of the needle is covered doesn't make any difference. The lancing device I got with my TEE2+ is called CareLance but I abandoned it and went back to my old SD one as the CareLance didn't always work. [ATTACH=full]35224[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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