Re: Identify this machine please

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• Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 19:16:28 -0600
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           Re: Identify this machine please
      Date: 
           Sat, 05 Apr 1997 14:13:31 -0800
      From: 
           Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
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Ken Smith wrote:


> 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.

[snip]

> 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.


It appears to be a 160kV (standard) X-Ray Head, with a liquid-cooled
anode and provisions for a pressurized fluorocarbon insulating medium.
I believe that I have the 160kV DCPS for that unit.

-GL

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