Re: Salt Water Caps (fwd)

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Subject: Re: Salt Water Caps (fwd)
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 22:25:26 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:46:14 -0500 (EST)
From: richard hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Salt Water Caps (fwd)

At 09:38 PM 2/24/97 -0700, you wrote:
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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:
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>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
>-- 
>Nathan Lamphere
>http://www.ronan-dot-net/~randyl/nfolder/nathan.html
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>
>Nathan,

4.3 nanofarads is .0043 ufd or 4300pf.  You are close to your desired
.006ufd with just the one bank of 6 bottles mentioned.  A couple more
bottles ought to do the trick for capacitiance.

Richard Hull, TCBOR