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Re: The manufacture of capacitors
Tesla List wrote:
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> >From ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu Tue Dec 10 13:55:53 1996
> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 18:05:21 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Edward V. Phillips" <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: The manufacture of capacitors
>
> Re: Oil dielectric capacitors
> Why not go the whole way and eliminate the solid dielectric
> material between the plates? I have an article in an old (circa
> 1921) QST describing an 0.01 mfd, 30 kV capacitor using only oil
> as the dielectric. Quite a construction job to get the plates
> flat enough to avoid excessive average spacing, but genuinelyh
> genuinely indestructable!!!!!! By the way, this one worked at
> the "special" wavelength of 350 meters, or about 857 kHz, so the
> inductance must have been pretty small.
> Why doesn't some get ambitious? Or, more likely, will
> someone who HAS been ambitious describe his results.
> Ed Phillips
I had the same idea but did not know if it would work.
Can you send me some construction information on that capacitor.
Gary Weaver
http://www.gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net