Re: Mississippi Mud Caps: Was, Barium Titanate Caps.

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Original poster: "Dr. Duncan Cadd by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <dunckx-at-freeuk-dot-com>

Hi Al, All!

>Hi Terry, Gary, Ed, Dr. Cadd, Jim, Dunckx, Georg, All.  Thanks for
>bearing with me!

I'll bear with anything as inventive as this.

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Thanks for all the detail, much appreciated.  Some photos to document
this process would make a really neat and unique webpage, if you ever
have the time from the more important stuff ;-)

>It is still air curing tonight, but we wanted to test
>it under fire, so we hooked it up to our old OBIT coil with salt
water
>caps, and viola, it worked!  We only needed two bottle caps in
>conjunction with our clay contraption to fire the coil with good
results!
>  We ran it at ten second clips with no sign of overheating.  We now
need
>to make more to try with the 15kv modified neons to see if they will
>withstand that voltage and higher current,  and for how long a period
of
>time.  Our greatest fear is that the clay will crack internally
within
>the epoxy shell at higher volts and amps, but we think that if we can
>stack them as a long multicelled epoxy encapsulated capacitor, then
they
>may even survive a pole pig ordeal.    Al.


I take my hat off to you, this is excellent stuff you've done.  I
would wonder how much the losses e.g. from iron in the clay will
contribute to heating and cracking, but even if it does fail under
pole pig use, you have done something new, innovative and I bet the
satisfaction factor when you fired the thing up and it worked was
tremendous.  Well done!  You may find in the course of your
experiments that some colours of clay from your hillside give better
results than others because of different impurity levels.  Looks like
you're in for some serious fun for a while to come.  I anticipate
hearing more interesting things from you.

Dunckx
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