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Re: GE X-Ray Power Supply



> Hi Chip,
> 
> I recently came across what appears to be a high voltage
> tuned power supply for an old 1930's X-ray machine.
> 
> It is a GE model 8 "Inductotherm" with two knobs, on apparently
> controls the power or voltage and the other tunes the output
> which appears to be some type of tank circuit.  The latter knob
> turns a variable capacitor.  The supply is rated 12 amps at 120
> or 220 Volts.
> 
> Is this of interest to anyone in the tesla community?
> 
> The tag also says "do not use near any conductive materials"
> 
> The cords are obviously high voltage, about the size of a
> garden hose.

This might be an old diathermy machine, which used a tuned circuit to 
generate RF which was then used to heat people up inductively.

Steven Roys