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Identify this machine please

Subject: 
        Identify this machine please
  Date: 
        Sat, 05 Apr 1997 15:52:37 -1200
  From: 
        Ken Smith <ksmith-at-ihug.co.nz>
    To: 
        Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


All,
        I may be off topic here since I have a feeling this is a High
Voltage subject, but I have no access to that and I know a number of you
are
into both sides.

What I have is a puzzle.  I have found a piece of exceptionally well
made
machinery with a plate on it that says 160KV and two enormous DC
sockets.
This is brand new and was dumped by the large hospital here in Auckland.

On the plate(s) :

Z.BO.16CT
General Electric GGRSA, 100 Rue Camille, France
RS21 CFR
Statorix 1600

Physically it looks like :

At the back is a Radiator 14 x 10 inches with high quality pipes and
fittings and twin 115V fans.  The pipes run to a small (beer can size)
pump
that is labelled 115V 16A. From there the pipes run to either side of
the
main machine housing.

The main machine is compact 2 x 1 ft and exceedingly heavy (over 100
lbs).
It is made of very high quality machined steel possibly tungsten.  It
has a
turbine appearance and all external plates and covers are of equally
fine
construction and the thing is plugged together with aircraft style allen
key
bolts.  In fact it looks like a aircraft turbine engine in construction
and
quality. Laterally it is circular but from the front there are two
smaller
disk shaped chambers on either side of a main chamber.  It is into the
smaller disks that the pipes from the pump go.  Inside the smaller
disks, on
the edge of the main chamber are two (approx 2 inch) sockets that are
inset
some 5 inches, lined with ceramic material, ribbed to take O rings seals
and
marked ANODE / CATHODE.  On the right hand disk the pipe is T junctioned
with a valve that looks like a larger version of the filler valve on my
car
AC.  Pushing it got a gas out, but no smell or sensation.

My best guess is that it is a HV generator of some sort, but there are
many
questions as to what it exactly is - and what it was / could be used
for.
It is far too well made to be something simple or frivolous and the
160KV
rings a 'useful' bell.  I have stopped the rubbish man from taking it to
bits with a chisel and put him on strict orders to leave it alone.  He
is
looking at scrap value for 100 lbs + of high grade steel.  My bet is
that it
has more value than that - but what and who for..

BTW it is brand new.  There is not a mark on it and the fitting and
plugs
are all sealed with manufactures caps in place still.  

Sorry to be a pest with this one, but it is a puzzle that I cannot
solve.

Ken
Ken Smith
Weymouth
Auckland 
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ksmith
ksmith-at-ihug.co.nz