Saltwater Caps

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Original poster: "Cory Roussel by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <imcuddlycory-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Hello all,

After seeing lots of tesla coils with saltwater caps I
decided to build one... My results are- THEY ARE
WIMPY!  bad... apparently saltwater, in the realm of
HV experimenting is only useful as a resistor... :-(! 

i dont know if any of you all have any comments on the
way i went about it but my experiment is as follows: 

took a large mason jar, filled it with water, added
about an Oz of rock salt (im sure my electrode will
corrode after a while with this stuff :-/   )  then i
heated it and mixed the salt in, tastes less salty
than seawater... even though rock salt isnt good for
you... then covered the surface in medium thickness 
foil then a large screw through the top of the jar,
almost completely submerged, leads ran off the
aluminum and the screw that are connected in parallel
with my small 7000V .9mA DC (yes its wimpy too but
charges caps) source , then shorted the caps while
running, got a small slightly more intensified then
the HV source spark about half inch long... i could
hear crackling on teh homade cap does this mean its
puncturing???

big sparks and hot arcs,

Cory Roussel



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