Re: diathermy machine

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• Subject: Re: diathermy machine
• From: Richard Wayne Wall <rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com>
• Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 20:35:24 -0600 (CST)
• Subscriber: rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com Fri Feb 7 00:14:57 1997

You wrote: 

>
>Greetings,
>
>In addition to Kevin Conkey's question about what a diathermy machine 
>is, my question is could it be used to drive a tesla coil?  I have 
>access to an old one that a friend of mine bought at a garage sale.
>
>Chip

The answer is yes.  Eric Dollard made a video where he uses a diathermy 
machine to drive a TC.  The diathermy machine drives dual vacuum tube 
rectifiers which are connected to a large mica cap which in turn drives 
the TC primary tank circuit.

RWW

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