Re: Bottle Capacitor Values

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Chris,

I assume you don't have a meter or any of the usual stuff there.  The magic
number is 900pF (0.9nF) per bottle.  Mileage may vary, but that is the best
guess number to use.

Cheers,

        Terry


At 12:24 PM 8/31/2002 -0700, you wrote: 

>
> Hi Everybody,
>
>           I'm on a very low budget for my tesla coil, so I have to rely on
> bottle caps. Unfortunately, the bottles don't tell you what capacitance value
> you get when you fill them with saltwater and put them in tesla coils. I've
> tryed to get some companies to put it on their labels, but they never do :)
> So does anybody know of some way to (inexpensively) measure, calculate, or
> estimate capacitance values of bottle caps? 
>
> -Chris