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3412345678910111213141516171819202122232425discussions and research with police and users.Q. Did you have any role in selecting thefive-second duration?A. I did.Q. And what was your role?A. I was really intimately involved in the teamwhere we had discussions researching what the optimalpulse duration would be. I may be -- let me just besure, pulse train duration. Each individual pulse is afew microseconds in duration, but how long we shouldhave the device deliver an automated train of pulsesfor.Q. Can we call that a cycle?A. Perfect.Q. And so TASER M26s are designed to -- and I knowthere's exceptions to this, which we'll get to -- but asingle trigger pull to deliver a five-second cycle.Correct?A. Correct.Q. And what -- you sort of explained abstractlyhow that five seconds was arrived at. Can you tell usmore concretely, what were the considerations? Why fiveseconds and not three seconds and not 10 seconds?A. Okay. Well, first, the decision to have atiming cycle at all was based on feedback from end users