Re: Tesla UV apparatus?

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Dave,

There are abbreviations here:

http://www.pupman.com/faq/abbrs.html

Your UV machine is still happily manufactured to this very day!!!  Due to 
relativistic time distortion effects, UL, CE, TUV, FCC, SEMI-S10, NRTL, 
BATF, DHS... rules "still" don't apply to them ;-))  But really, be darn 
carful since the metal parts are probably live line level AC!!  If you 
planning on using it a lot, you might want to get the teflon spark gap 
isolator and fix the line cord so the tip is at AC neutral.

Some place in India "still" makes the glowing wands for them.  Here is a 
nice link too:

http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/MuseumVioletRays.htm

http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/

Here are the trouble shooting instructions!!:

http://www.electrotechnicproduct.com/get_technical/article_1.html

http://www.electrotechnicproduct.com/pinhole.html

http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/Articles/VioletRayConstruction.htm

I think the parts or the same so they might be able to supply a repair part 
if needed.  Ebay often has them too.  New they run about $250!

Cheers,

        Terry



At 09:03 PM 3/31/2005, you wrote:
> After a DRE, PSA, and TRUB my Dr said I had PCa and needed CAT and PET scans.
>  The Dr gave me some www. addresses and I found my options included WW, 
> TURP,
> TUMA, EBRT, SI, PR.  I chose EBRT so the RO did a few days of 3D-CRT and
> several weeks of IMRT.  I'm now in remission and thought I'd read 
> something on the
> web other than about PCa, but I don't understand you guys!
>
> Actually someone posted a very helpful lexicon of TC abrs. and acronyms about
> a month ago. Unfortunately I accidentally deleted it and I am having trouble
> understanding the postings.  If you could repost that, I promise to save it
> properly this time. Thanks.
>
> My interest in TC is that about sixty years ago, I had an "ultraviolet ray
> machine"-a bit of medical quackery that (supposedly) cured all known 
> diseases.
> My father picked it up cheap at an auction.
>
> It appeared to be a small hand-held Tesla coil inside an attaché-sized box
> that had various shaped vacuum bulbs which could be attached and glowed 
> with a
> purple glow.  If you inserted a metal rod instead of a bulb, you could 
> hold the
> rod in one hand and make a fluorescent tube glow by picking it up with the
> other hand.
>
> I recently found the UV ray machine but it is no longer working.  I tested
> the wires and coils for open circuits and they seem OK, but I don't know 
> how to
> test the capacitors.  This apparatus was probably built in the mid '20s.
> Anyone out there familiar with these UV ray gadgets?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave