Re: Violet ray machines - Re: Pig grounding

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Original poster: "Richard Jones by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gnatwing1-at-home-dot-com>


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> Hi Richard,
>
> You can buy a half dozen of these any week on eBay. It's just an evacuated
> glass tube on the end of an adjustable induction coil. It was one of the
most
> popular bits of quack medical machinery from the first half of the 20th
> century. It was supplanted by the Lakhovsky Multiwave Oscillator, another
piece
> of total quack junk still being pushed by the New Age Whackos at
"Borderland
> Sciences Research Foundation" of Vista CA. You might contact them if you
are
> really into old-time hokum and hoodoo. Just don't confuse any of it with
> science.
>
> Matt D.

Matt,
The Tesla coil in Violet Rays are primarily of one type: A Disruptive
Discharge Coil. Tesla's first high frequency coils looked remarkably similar
to Violet Ray coils. Violet Ray "Resonator Coils" are all of essentially the
same character and construction - approx. 20 layers of wire, 60 turns on
each layer. This wire is as thin as a hair, and only occupies the center of
the bobbin. Each layer must be heavily insulated from the next by pieces of
waxed or varnished paper to prevent spark-overs and short circuiting.
Different Violet Rays can be ran for longer periods of time than others due
to better insulation of the resonator coil to prevent inefficiency and
overheating. Overheated coils produce weak sparks, and can eventually burn
out. Design characteristics were often the selling point of machines.
Two-part machines were made to sell at high costs, because they can run for
extended periods of time without needing the frequent "cooling off" periods
that the one-piece units require.
The oscillator circuit consists of an electromagnetic interrupter that is
used to rapidly charge a condenser to a high voltage and then discharge it
through the primary of the disuptive discharge coil.
The Violet Ray appliance is used for a wide variety of problems to stimulate
the nervous and circulatory systems. . It is essentially an ultra-high
voltage, low amperage source of static electricity with a voltage output of
about 50,000 volts and a frequency of over one million cycles per second. At
the heart of the Violet Ray is the Tesla coil, named for Nicola Tesla
(1856-1943), the famous electrical engineer, scientist, inventor and
dicoverer.

Not understanding something only makes in quakery in your own mind and if
this isnt science I dont know what is.

Richard