Re: Water Pig

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Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>

At 19:07 10/05/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Harvey Norris by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <harvich-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
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>I use a wallmart poly water pitchure surrounded by
>aluminum foil, and a center 2.5 inch copper pipe as
>the inner axial capacity, for a practical water
>capacitor. The poly barrier prevents all these
>objections about the water being conductive stuff.

You'll probably find that the system is behaving just like a saltwater 
bottle cap. I.e. the water and copper pipe work together as the inner 
electrode, the poly container is the dielectric, and the foil is the outer 
electrode. I doubt the water is doing anything dielectric at all. Of 
course, you could prove me wrong, if you added salt and the capacitance 
increased drastically ;)

Steve C.