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Re: Coax Cap?? (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:39:15 +0000
From: "Gregory R. Hunter" <ghunter-at-mail.enterprise-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Coax Cap??
Chris,
I've used coax to make small capacitors before for ham radio antenna
experiments. I think RG-8 is good for 29pF per foot at roughly 5kV.
Wouldn't be much use in Tesla coil work. If you try to use a long
piece of RG-8 to make a big cap, it will tend to behave like a PFN.
Greg
East Anglia, UK
> To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: Coax Cap??
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:02:19 -0600
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> Subject: Coax Cap??
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> Has anyone ever made a coax capacitor, such as stripping the outerlayer
> leaving just the polyethylene core and the wire intact? If so did it
> work, and did it take alot of wire to make one?
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> Chris
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