Re: Ok, so maybe we will have plenty o' NSTs : )

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Ok, so maybe we will have plenty o' NSTs : )
From: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:00:26 -0700
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Nathan Ball wrote:

> One man I talked to said that it was probably PETG, Polyethylene
> Teraphthalic Glycol or something, and that it was the plastic used to make
> two liter bottles and such.  Is this right? has anybody out there tried
> using two liter bottle plastic in their caps? It averages about 13 mil on
> the micrometer... so that's about 52,000V if the listing for the dielectric
> strength in The Tesla Coil Book is accurate.
> 
> That would mean 0.026 mil and a 100,000V dielectric strength! Is this too
> good to be true?

I have tested a bottle of this type with 100 kV, DC, and it didn't
break. But this plastic deforms easily with heat, and someone said
on this list that it is rather dissipative at RF frequencies. Add
power, dissipation, and deformation and you will have serious problems.
But has someone actually tried to make capacitors with these bottles?

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz