I wonder about shortwave therapy. My dad was a physio and had lots of huge machines that heated the tissues with RF energy. Similar meters etc?
David On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, 14:22 Alex, <ajlgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I am not sure about this being a diathermy as they are generally more > powerful (unless this is a fairly high voltage, the mA meter would suggest > a fairly low current). My diathermy tester presents a few hundred ohms load > and expects around 100 watts of output... > > I suspect this is one of the many early electrotherapy devices - think > tens machine - they often used salt bath type solutions and various > ionisation / RF outputs of low power for various applications. IONO would > suggest salt / electrolysis bath also. I have had a few later units come > through with medical equipment surplus / scrap that are vaguely similar to > this. > > That said it could be a diathermy but there was many random quackish > machines like this over the early years. Does it have a footpedal? > > - Alex > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/a3dc44eb-59fb-415f-8e0a-320afb7d643co%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/a3dc44eb-59fb-415f-8e0a-320afb7d643co%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAOQ6x0Edrj77U%3DhRFeaYm0jTp5VHJ%2BipjLYf_%3DTER0gdTuHCMg%40mail.gmail.com.