Re: Water as an insulator

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

Cartridge deionizers are in the $100 range...
You would also need a good particulate filter (which might be in the DI
cartridge), because air bubbles and particulates are probably your biggest
breakdown source.  ionic contaminants just increase the leakage current.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: Water as an insulator


> Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<davep-at-quik-dot-com>
>
> Tesla list wrote:
>
> > Original poster: "Eric Davidson by way of Terry Fritz
> > <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <edavidson-at-icva.gov>
>
> > Hi All,
>
> > I must say, it kinda scares me when I hear alot of folks talking about
how
> > good an insulator water is.  While it is very much true that extremely
pure
> > water can have a resistivity of more than 18 megohm cm^-2, however,
keeping
> > water this pure is VERY difficult.  If you so much as added a few grains
of
> > ordinary table salt to a gallon of 18 meg water,  it would become
> > dangerously conductive.  I'd rather make believe that water is always
> > conductive, especially when a Tesla coil is in the neighborhood.
>
> Indeed.  The discussion of water was more for its technical
> curiosity.  We are talking about kilobuck to 10s of kilobucks in
> purifiers.  I would expect 'purifiers' for the 'home market'
> would be more or less useless.
>
> best
> dwp
>   Just my
>
>
>