Re: Water capacitors

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Original poster: "Alex Crow by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <alexcrow-at-blueyonder.co.uk>

Georg,

I had exactly the same thought, albeit concerning varnishing or waxing plates 
before immersion. Should cut out a lot of ionic dissipation into the water...

Alex



On Wednesday 11 April 2001 23:16, Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: "Georg Sickinger by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <sickinger-at-web.de>
>
> Hello all :o),
>
> It is impossible to insulate the cap-plates (perhaps with an layer of
> paraffin) before
> putting them into the water? If you can make this there should be no
> problem with
> the conductivity of water. Perhaps you can even use nomal water if the
> plates are
> insulatet very well. How large is the dielectrik factor if you put
> several different
> materials on each other.
> Iīm not a specialist so I canīt guarantee for correctness.
>
> Georg