Re: Plastic soda bottles for bypass caps?

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• Subject: Re: Plastic soda bottles for bypass caps?
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• Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 22:53:48 -0600
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From: 	Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz[SMTP:acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br]
Sent: 	Sunday, December 07, 1997 10:58 PM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: Plastic soda bottles for bypass caps?

Tesla List wrote:

> I know that plastic soda bottles make for poor tesla tank capacitors, but
> it seems to me that that you could make some decent bypass caps from the
> lossy material (PET)...With kitchen Aluminum foil and a few pepsi
> bottles, I should be able to make 250pF caps that are quite small and
> practically free! Anything I am missing?

The problem that I see witn this material is that it deforms easily with
heat, shrinking. I tried some time ago to make a simple electrostatic machine
using cylinders cut from pepsi bottles. It lasted until I tried to heat it
with a hair dryer... 

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Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
mailto:acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq

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