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An old Tesla coil system



Hi:

My university received a donation of some old medical devices,
that include a medium-size Tesla coil system. In the near
future I probably will try to restore the system to working
conditions. The system was in use (I think) in the 1930's.

The material include:
a Tesla transformer:
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/teslatr.jpg
A big induction coil:
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/indcoil.jpg
A rotary mercury switch for the coil:
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/rotarysw.jpg
A control panel:
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/iccontrol.jpg

There are also banks of capacitors (square glass plates
and metal foil embedded in paraffin or something similar),
and spark gaps (series of point-plate gaps, very worn
from use), and several devices to be connected to the
system.
Next week I will try to get more informations about
how was the original system assembled.
I am also restoring a big 8 disks Bonetti electrostatic
machine, from the same lot.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz