Re: Saltwater Caps

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

Your posting sounds like you may have salt water on the outside where you
dont want it. The space must be clean of salt water or the high voltage will
follow it right over the glass. The grain size of the salt dosent change it
to good or bad in your diet, salt is salt. I find Titanium welding rods hold
up to salt water better than platinum electrodes and cost much less.I dont
think you used enough salt to saturate the water. Clean the glass add salt,
and try again. Dont bother heating the water just add excess amount of salt.
  Robert  H

> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:24:23 -0700
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Saltwater Caps
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> Resent-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:48:06 -0700
> 
> 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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