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RE- Would this cap work
Subject: RE- Would this cap work
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 17:01:19 GMT
From: robert.michaels-at-online.sme-dot-org (Robert Michaels)
Organization: Society of Manufacturing Engineers
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Yes. No. Maybe - for a while.
You idea would make a workable but inadvisable capacitor.
(I would suggest that the wire contacting the in-tubing brine
be made to run the entire length of the tubing).
This type of capacitor =will= develop heat and possibly
gas. Sealing it is highly inadvisable.
Quite some length would be required to get much capacitance.
Coiling up the excess length doesn't strike me as such a hot
idea in Tesla service. You would have a capacitor with appre-
ciable distributed inductance.
Maybe you could make a Tesla primary with the
primary winding and the capacitor being one and
the same? (Don't ask me how you would tune it!)
Discharging, in --
Detroit, USA
Robert Michaels
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-> Would it not be possible to take a length of polyethylene (or other
-> appropriate material) tubing, carefully seal off one end, fill with
-> brine,
-> seal the other end around one terminal (with a bit of, say Cu wire,
-> extending into the brine), and then immerse this length into a brine
-> bath
-> containing the opposite terminal? This tubing could be arranged in a
-> spiral or zig-zag such that you effectively have your two plates.
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