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Unknown x-ray communication equipment
wmac23:
Please excuse my ignorance. I'm looking for someone to help explain what the equipment I have attached pictures of. I recently purchased a property that has many electronics that were built/used by a nuclear physicist who was a neighbor of my grandparents. I have been told he was registered federally for communications and his goal was to communicate with extraterrestrial life. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TimFox:
Your photos don't show the manufacturer's name clearly, but that is a conventional x-ray generator, with a high-voltage power supply and an oil-circulating heat exchanger (air-cooled) to cool the anode. Such x-ray tubes typically ran with positive and negative high-voltage connections, and the medical tubes often used rotating anodes to allow short operation at high power. Note the slot at the center of the tube, that collimated the beam into a relatively flat sheet.
Gyro:
Be glad that you can't just plug that contraption in! It looks to be a very 'Heath Robinson' construction, lots of bare terminals and heatsinks (leaving aside the dangers of the tube and high voltage supplies). There are a few folks around here with professional experience of X-ray equipment who can probably help you, Fraser comes to mind.
If the house was owned by a nuclear physicist who built something like that, you might want to invest in a low cost Geiger counter in case there are any other 'interesting' items lurking in the basement.
radiolistener:
may be this is nuclear reactor? :scared:
helius:
It appears to be a setup for X-ray crystallography or fluorescence tests, as opposed to X-ray imaging.
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