Re: salt water capacitors

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>

It makes my day when I see someone outside the Group using our ideas :) 
cool!

As many of you have noticed we're recodeing the whole website fro a new look 
and to reflect the growth and expantion of the Group. Because of the 
popularity of the design I am completely revanping the Geek Group Bucket Cap 
page and also dreating a simple demo/project from it. There will be lots of 
Pics (we didn't have a full-time photographer back when we did the original 
site for the cap), and step-by-step instructions to build a simple and 
reliable cap.

The twist is I WANT A WORLD RECORD, at least this year. IT's a good PR 
thing. I need to know for SURE what the largest SW-Corona-Bottle cap is ever 
made. Maybe this will start a contest, lol. I want to make a MASSIVE cap. 
Completely useless (I think that once you get this big that the losses from 
the glass would be so bad that no coil short of the 13M would be able to 
swing it), but interesting and beautiful for a demo of how capacitors work 
and such. And we have a LOT of capacitor related projects here lately 
(Groucho, Harpo, Thumper, Stomper, etc as astra).

I have been collecting Corona bottles for months (College town, noone drinks 
good beer....Corona bottles are hard to find, and if it's not Corona then we 
loose the standard) and have 108 so far and counting. I hope to use 1000, 
that's the goal :)




Los Capacitor Mas Fina!
duck




Christopher A. Boden Geek#1
President / C.E.O. / Alpha Geek
The Geek Group
www.thegeekgroup-dot-org
Because the Geek shall inherit the Earth!



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>Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca>
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>At 06:45 PM 19/07/01 -0600, you wrote:
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> >Original poster: "Nick Graber by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
><nickgraber-at-home-dot-com>
> >
> >hello all I am having some troubles with my tesla coil and cant seem
> >to figure out how to correct it I belive i dont have the correct
> >capacitance.
>
><snip>
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> >Nick Graber
> >nickgraber-at-home-dot-com
> >
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>Hello Nick,
>
>I built a geek group bucket cap just for something to do and to
>have it to experiment with.  The measured capacity is 0.011 uF.
>I used a copper sulphate solution, rather than brine, but that
>should have no effect on the capacitance.  Mine has 12 regular
>sized Corona (what an appropriate name) beer bottles with half
>inch diameter copper water pipe as the electrodes.  Works well!
>
>
>73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL
>
>Listening: 147.030+ and 442.075+
>E-mail:    weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca
>            or ve3ear-at-rac.ca
>Web site:  www.hurontel.on.ca/~weazle
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>
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