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Salt Water Caps (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 20:03:19 -0600
From: Nathan Lamphere <randyl-at-ronan-dot-net>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Salt Water Caps
Hello again--
After being very busy with work and even more happily getting engaged:)
I am ready to go back constructing my first Tesla coil.
I am now at the point of making my capacitors. I thought that it might
be wise to make salt water caps because of ease/ and price. I downloaded
the Tesla Archive File by David Lima on how to make these capacitors.
According to the plans, however, he said his bank of 6 salt water caps
had a capacitance of 4.3 nF. I have calculated that I need at least a
.0063 uF capacitor.
So if I understand things correctly, using his plans I would need 1465
of these banks just to get the right capacitance, disregarding the
voltage. OBVIOUSLY something is very wrong here.
It seems several of you have built salt water caps. Can you tell me:
1) Are his 4.3 nF (per bank of 6 caps) correct? Or is it a misprint?
2) If his numbers are correct, what can I do to make a different type of
salt water cap? I could sooner afford to buy a commercial cap as to
drink that much soda for 8700 bottles.
3) Am I missing the boat somewhere?
Here is another start for a thread to add to the Tesla Guide.
Thanks
Nathan
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Nathan Lamphere
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