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Re: GE X-Ray Power Supply
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To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
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Subject: Re: GE X-Ray Power Supply
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From: sroys-at-Anchorage.ab.umd.edu
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:48:59 -0500 (EST)
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> Hi Chip,
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> I recently came across what appears to be a high voltage
> tuned power supply for an old 1930's X-ray machine.
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> 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.
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> Is this of interest to anyone in the tesla community?
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> The tag also says "do not use near any conductive materials"
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> 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