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Re: Plans for layered cap

I read somewhere why you DON'T need a vacuum, try
here:

www.freehomepages-dot-com/user/archive/capinfo.txt

ANd

www.freehomepages-dot-com/user/archive/mikecap.txt


Chris.
--- Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original Poster: Adam <psycho-at-tradewind-dot-net> 
> 
> 
> 
> Tesla List wrote:
> 
> > Original Poster: Chris Tominkson
> <internetinbox-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> >
> > Well, it would be just like a rolled PE-cap,
except
> its
> > not rolled up, and it does not need two "sheets"
of
> PE
> > for two plates.
> >
> > Like this:
> >
> >            |-Wire, connected to Al flashing
> >            |
> > ALALALALALALALALALALALALALAL-Aluminum lashing/Tin
> Foil
> > PEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPE-Polyethelyne
> > ALALALALALALALALALALALALALAL-Aluminum lashing/Tin
> Foil
> >            |
> >            |-Wire, connected to Al flashing
> >
> > Simple, but if you want to save space you can:
Make
> > several smaller units, or Connect several plates.
> Like
> > this:
> >
> >                ALALALALALALALAL----0
> >                PEPEPEPEPEPEPEPE    |
> >           0----ALALALALALALALAL    |---Out
> >           |    PEPEPEPEPEPEPEPE    |
> >     In----|    ALALALALALALALAL----0
> >           |    PEPEPEPEPEPEPEPE
> >           0----ALALALALALALALAL
> >
> > Understand?, The zeros mean conection, well thats
> all.
> >
> > Chris.
> >
> 
> Wait a minute.  As I understand it, you still need a
> vacuum unless the
> plates your using are placed vertically in the
> container.  From what
> I've read, this is because if they were laid
> horizontally, air could
> still be trapped between the plates.  In a vertical
> configuration, the
> air can just rise up.
> 
> My question is, what's the best way to keep the air
> out, suppress
> corona, preserve capacitor integrity, and prevent
oil
> from getting
> between the plates, messing with the distance
between
> them and
> dielectric constant?
> 
> I'm sort of a math purist.  Too many calculations,
> not enough
> construction, I guess.
> 
> Sorry to complicate things,
> Adam
> 
> 

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