Re: CD capacitor

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Cydesho-at-aol-dot-com>

I'm beginning to find from my various investigations into capacitors built 
from readily available materials that many of them will not work because the 
are too lossy (e.g., mica, glass, polycarbonate, PET, etc.)  Has anyone out 
there compiled a list of materials that will serve as good dieletrics for 
capacitors being used with Tesla coils? It seems that the number of materials 
that are unsuitable for this use outnumber those that are suitable. Rather 
than banging my head against the wall finding out what is not suitable I 
would like to just know what will work. It would definitely be more 
productive, and much better on the brain cells. If anyone out there could 
tell me where to find a list of materials, it would be much appreciated.
                                    Justin