Re: Is Black Acrylic Conductive?

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Original poster: "Mark W. Stolz by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mark_w_stolz-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Dave,

Myself and a friend both use black Plexiglas for various coil parts and 
haven't had any problems to date.  I have wondered this myself though.

Mark Stolz
Houston, TX


>Original poster: "Dave Leddon by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><leddon-at-attbi-dot-com>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I was merrily going along building supports for some high voltage caps
>using black acrylic, because I think it looks better than the clear, when
>it occurred to me that black acrylic might be conductive at high voltage
>due to whatever color pigment is used to achieve the color.  Does anybody
>have any experience using this material for high voltage applications?
>
>Thanks,
>Dave