Re: pure water capacitor?

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• Subject: Re: pure water capacitor?
• From: "Thomas McGahee" <tom_mcgahee-at-sigmais-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:29:21 -0700
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If you want to see what would happen to a pure water cap
in Tesla service, simply take a cup of water and put
it in the microwave for a minute. Can you say "HOT"?

A good way to test dielectrics for their RF characteristics
is to put a 1" square sample in the microwave for one minute.
Poly and Teflon come out at just a bit above room temperature.
Mylar and pieces of plastic soda bottles and vinyl and
stuff like that get really hot, indicating that they can't
take the RF.

If it doesn't pass the microwave test, don't use it!

Fr. Tom McGahee

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