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Re: Salt water caps
Re: Salt water caps
> Hi Tom,
> Instead of glass bottles you'd better use another material like plastic
> lemonade bottles (smooth ones) and do wrap 'm in tape (tight)
> your problem with the glass bottles is in the K value of glass, lemonade
> bottles are about 25 times better ( I tried one in glass and one in glass
> and my values where resp. 0.127 nF and 3.35 nF ;-p )
>
> wrapping them in tape would improve your contact with the foil and bottle,
> and so your cap.
>
> you could read more on the net about this, since this is all over the net
> (correct me if i'm wrong, group)
>
> Saltwater caps may not be as eff. as MMC's , but they are cheap :-)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tesla List" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 2:38 AM
> Subject: Salt water caps
>
>
> > Original Poster: "Tom Stathes" <newphreak_16-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone could offer some insite on the salt water cap.
> I
> > presently am using 7 of these in my coil, Ther are 1L wine bottles,
> (They are
> > all Mondave wine bottles.) They are wraped with Al foil, but not with
> tape.
> > They each have a cppacitenece of ~ 0.9nf. Would wraping them in tape
> bring up
> > the capacitence. If i were to go with the saltwater bath method how
much
> do
> > you think it would increase the capacitence by? I need to make a .03uf
> cap,
> > but i dont want to use 30 bottles.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --Tom
> >
> >
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