Re: Plate Capacitor question (literally a plate cap)

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Original poster: "Chris Swinson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <exxos-at-cps-games.co.uk>

Hi Andy,

I built some plate caps a while ago and they are still running. See my page
at
http://www.mega-disczine.freeserve.co.uk/room/mycoil.html

it tells you what I used etc, HTH.

Chris


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Subject: Plate Capacitor question (literally a plate cap)


> Original poster: "Andy Cobaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<kb3ewy-at-rcn-dot-com>
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> Hello All,
>     Last night I though of a great way to make a capacitor.  Seeing as my
party
> cup capacitors worked until I got bad connections inside, I thought,
wouldn't
> disposable plastic plates work as a dielectric too?  Take a sheet of
aluminum
> foil and fold it a couple of times, draw a cutting pattern onto it, place
the
> resulting plates between the plates, put it under some oil (a tupperware
cake
> container comes to mind here) and ta da!  My question is, should one use
two
> plastic plates between the sheets of aluminum?  Probably right in case of
> imperfections in the plastic. This would be easily assembled, and if
anything
> happened inside it would be easy to take apart too.  One other thing: It
would
> be easy to compress to, just put something heavy on top of the stack.  I
might
> try it today if i can find some plastic plates.  Using the formula for
plate
> capacitors and using the area of a circle, it seems that 10 cells would
give
> maybe around 10nF.
>
> Andy, KB3EWY
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