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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
> From:          Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>

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> From:  Zuma [SMTP:mwise-at-ns.sosis-dot-com]
> Sent:  Wednesday, February 11, 1998 11:41 PM
> To:  tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> 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?
> 
> Chris
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