MasterJoe50
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It truly amazes me that 15 year old rumors that still 'roam around' about Violet Wands! There are no 'Violet Wands' specifically manufactured for 'play'. They are known as 'Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx Generators' and are manufactured for 'industrial and commercial uses'. They are bought, 'as is' and 'assembled' into a package with other accessories, and sold under the name, 'Violet Wand Kits'. What people choose to do with them is their own business... But they are specifically manufactured for industrial and commercial uses! There is 'one' factory that manufactures these in the entire country! The fact that 'Huse' has little 'labels' made to put on their units doesn't mean that they manufactured them! In fact they are nothing more than nearly exact copies of the old Donnie Rice Kits, packaged in a handgun case that you can find at a K-Mart store. Who might I say was the one that started the 'rumor' about cermanic cores! And claimed that only 'his' units had a cermanic core, that they can be run for 2 hours at a time, and that the light bulbs in his kits were made 'special' for his Violet Wands. I guess anything to make a buck! Hasn't anyone ever noticed that 'every' units looks 'exactly' the same? That is because they all come from the 'same factory', which I frequented countless times! And believe me, knowing the owner as I did, if someone did invest the 'millions' it would take to 'tool up' to duplicate these, the patent infringment lawsuits would have put them out of business, in a big hurry! I know of the factory, the owner, their website showing the 'real' uses for these, but I'm not about to divuldge that information! I used to buy direct from the factory, until others attempted to contact him, to compete with me, wanting to buy 'Violet Wands' from him! The owner is a very 'straight', church going, family man! Just the mention of the term 'Violet Wands' will set him off like you would not believe! Naturally he will deny to his dying breath, that his company, (before he acquired it), back in the 1920's / 1930's did produce 'Violet Wands'! And I have the proof of that fact, in one of their old original units, with their name on it, along with an original 'advertisment', with their company name on it, the term 'Violet Wand', along with a complete listing of available glass probes that were available for it! And, before he died many years ago, I knew the 'second generation' glass maker that manufactured the glass for this factory, to go along with their Violet Wand Kits. The biggest difference between the units from the 1920's and today, is that the 'wax' used as an insulator has a much higher melting temperature! There is no such thing as a cermanic core! And 'self healing' capacitors? Pleeeeese! A capacitor is an electronic component, once it goes bad, it's gone! My background is in electronics... I cannot count how many of these units, both old and new that I 'personally' repaired, rebuilt, and/or redesigned. I've still got an old 1920's model that I rebuilt that will put out a spark, longer that the new units. As with many electronic circuits that deal with high voltage and high frequencies, the circuits have to be 'tuned very much like a radio circuit. There are countless capacitors on the market all with different micro fared values, and different voltage ratings. I used to stock at least 20 different values on my workbench, just so that I can try and match the tuning of the circuit with those different values, when I repaired these, to get the best spark available out of these. If anyone ever opened up one of these newer units, they would see that the capacitor designed for these, doesn't look like 'any' capacitor you would find in an electronics store! They are made 'special' for this type of circuit, and for the limited space available for a capacitor within the handle. Regarding running time, I won't even go into that! Run them as long as you want! Once they overheat, they'll have to go back to the factory for repair, and 'someone' will be paying that repair fee! Either the end user or the dealer... If the dealer picks up the tab on that, all the better!, They'll send you out a new unit, and the 'repaired' unit they get back from the factory will go into another kit, that someone else will be buying! It is 'very clear' when one is opened up, if it had been overheated, and the factory 'will not' warranty the overheating of these, even if it is a week old! I wonder how many of you have purchased kits with those 'repaired' units in them, and not 'new' units? You can't tell the difference... there is no way of telling unless you open one up, which voids the warranty on it. Oh... and there is a date code in the 'inside' of these as well! Dealers will 'claim' that their units have cermanic cores in them, that you can run them for 'hours' at a time, 'just to make a sale' to those that don't know any better. They all claim that there's are the 'best' when in fact that everyone out there on the market are exactly the same internally! They all come from the same factory, and I challenge anyone out there to prove me wrong!
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