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title: Adjusting Needle Depth
description: Adjusting Needle Depth
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## Adjusting Needle Depth

1. Use the Depth +/- buttons to increase or decrease the needle depth (respectively). A single tone will be emitted for each valid button press. 

                                                                                                                                 

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2. The Medipen will emit a double tone to indicate the new depth value has been accepted and the selected depth will be displayed on the Depth Indication Digits.   
3. The depth can be adjusted without a Cartridge connected to the Medipen.

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