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Re: More Capacitor Ideas
Subject: Re: More Capacitor Ideas
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 09:22:39 +1200
From: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
Organization: Wellington Polytechnic, NZ
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Hi Peter,
> From: Peter Electric <elekessy-at-macquarie.matra-dot-com.au>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> References: 1
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>
> Tesla List wrote:
> >
> > Subject: More Capacitor Ideas
> > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:10:20 -0400
> > From: "Thomas McGahee" <tom_mcgahee-at-sigmais-dot-com>
> > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > CC: "Tesla-2" <tesla-2-at-emachine-dot-com>
> >
> > Fellow Coilers,
> >
> > Fr. Tom here again.
> >
> Snippo
> >
> > Some more thoughts:
> >
> > I am sure that most of the ideas I come up with have also been
> > thought about by others like Malcolm Watts and Alfred Skrocki and
> > Mike Hammer, just to mention a few. Mike even asked me if I had been
> > spying on him :) Nope. I gues that it's just that great minds often
> > think along the same lines. Different actual thoughts, but remarkably
> > similar in many respects. Snip!
>
> While we're on the subject of great minds, (and extreme modesty) I have
> had an idea also. I'm sure someone has thought of this before, but what
> about using just Xformer oil as your dielectric. Some of the better oils
> seem to have fairly good Dielectric constant, not to mention reasonable
> breakdown voltage, so what if you used something like plastic flyscreen
> mesh between the plates. This would allow oil to flow freely and might
> even allow the capacitor to "self heal" in the event of an arc over.
>
> Let me know if anyone has tried this technique.
Good ol' transformer oil is exactly what I am using in homebuilt caps
right now. However, recognize that a single zap through the plastic
and you are finished. This is quite different from using paper soaked
in oil.
Malcolm