Re: Water capacitor, was: Re: General Questions

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Yeah!!!

Once you can charge the thing at 60Hz, your are home free.  The RF is
energy is easy.  Just keeping the water pure enough, long enough..., to
charge the primary cap energy into the water cap (repeating at like 120
BPS) to the primary capacitance is the key...  I don't personally know of
any effort in rally getting a water primary TC cap to work.  

Cheers,

	Terry


At 11:08 PM 4/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Terry, All,
>
>I can remember this topic coming up more than once on this list (just do a
>search in the archives for "water capacitor"). I have always thought that it
>was a very novel idea and that it would be very very cool if if worked. I
>think that every time the idea was brought up it was shot down, based on the
>idea that even if you could get water that pure you couldn't keep it pure,
>electrolysis leading to hydrogen/oxygen explosion etc. etc. The only thing
>is that after all that heresay and opinion over fact stuff is that I don't
>think that anyone has ever actually tried making a water capacitor! It may
>work with a Wal-Mart brand deionizer and it may not but to my knowledge
>noone has ever done any research into the area. Considering the benefits
>that a successful water cap could have (instant dielectric healing, cooling,
>cost, availabilty) I can't see a single reason why a bit of fairly
>inexpensive research would be unjustified. Also if you can get the water
>pure enough there is no reason that it shouldn't really work (I can forsee
>some problems with the circulating water, though), but the real question is
>HOW pure you actually need your water. I do have a hunch, however, that a
>circulating water capacitor may not work well at storing a charge for any
>length of time or at low frequencies, may work w/ high frequency well
>though, or I could be completely wrong all together
>
>Don your lab glasses and "Let the experimenting begin!"
>
>Jason Johnson
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 8:58 PM
>Subject: Re: General Questions
>
>
>> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> So, with one able to buy a fancy filter at WallMart and rig a recirc
>> system.  Then getting distilled water and all.  Is it possible to make a
>> Tesla primary cap with plates in really pure (that a normal guy can make)
>> deionized water.  You would have to charge the water immersed plates at
>> 60Hz to like 20kV.  It sounds really tough since the high voltage would
>> want to mess up the water really fast, but thought I would ask...
>>
>> Cartridge filters and little water pumps are relativley cheap if it would
>> have a chance of working...
>>
>> I thought it would be a practical use for some of this "chemystery" talk
>;-))
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Terry
>>
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