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RE: Idea for Capacitor
Subject: RE: Idea for Capacitor
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 97 19:59:41 UT
From: "William Noble" <William_B_Noble-at-msn-dot-com>
To: Tesla List" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
let the 2 capacitor end plates be 1/4 inch steel (e.g. cheap and
strong). for
clamping, use nonconductive brace across the plates clamped with regular
old
bolts. A good nonconductive brace would be any kind of plastic,
although a
steel angle iron with a ceramic insert would probably be ok too. The
whole
point is that if the end plate is rigid, then flexing of the
"compression
plate" won't be a problem.
One other alternative - make the outer box STRONG, leave a few inches on
one
side and put an inner tube in there, then add oil and wait a while, then
inflate the inner tube to compress. There are special bellows
assemblies to
do this, but an inner tube is much cheaper.
final alternative - don't compress - just add another plate to make up
for
lost capacitance and compress it "mildly" just to hold everything
together.
[bill] snip
2) Back up the insulative plastic with something really strong.
Really strong stuff tends to be HEAVY. Such as a sheet of 1/4 inch
aluminum. If using a conductor, make sure that bolts are kept as far
away from the edges of the actual capacitor as possible. At least far
enough that the oil will provide adequate insulation.
[bill] snip
Hope this helps
Fr. Tom McGahee