WATER CAPACITOR EXPERIMENT!!!!

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Original poster: "eahab el naga" <eahab1-at-msn-dot-com> 

I have spent the last two days reading virtually every post on water 
capacitors... Here's a summary of what I understood:

1) Everybody tries to prove that their view is correct and are not willing 
to experiment
2) Everybody who is willing to experiment is put down by those who feel 
that they are saying the ultimate truth
3) They will work
4) They won't work <--that's a big one
5) They are too good to be true

Sorry for the harsh attitude...*takes deep breath* Okay, the reason that I 
am so frustrated is that I feel that those who want to should be encouraged 
instead of being told its an impossibility...anywho, I am going to attempt 
building a water cap using distilled water run through an industrial 
De-Ionizer... For the actual plates I am going to take an antenna tuning 
capacitor of about 200pf in the air at about 1kv and take it apart. I will 
give each plate a good coating of acrylic to avoid the contamination that 
everybody is talking about. I will rebuild it carefully in order to make 
sure that i do not scratch my acrylic coating, For the containment box I am 
building is out of .5" thick acrylic (I know its overkill but that's beside 
the point). Its dimensions are 4"x4"x12" to give the vari-cap .5" clearance 
off each side. The cap will be supported by .25" thick acrylic sheet inside 
the case. The tuning knob will come out of a hole bored to the right size 
of the shaft with Teflon tape to give it a good seal. If anybody thinks 
this is a bad idea please give me advice but keep in mind that even if I am 
told that its all going to blow up in my face (which it might if it 
overheats), I am still insisting on building it. It can't hurt...it'll make 
others safe by keeping me busy.

This is actually my first posting on pupman. I have always come here for 
info in my free time to see others technique to coil building but 
nevertheless, it can never hurt to try something new.

My site is http://eahab1.port5-dot-com and It hasn't been updated for a while 
but it shows the first two coils I built. Ohh, and as a side notes, on my 
Model 2, I used 24awg as a primary and worked without a problem. For the 
secondary, It was wound with 30awg wire-wrap. On one of my newer coils (not 
on the site), I wound the secondary with 37awg wire (2"x12") and runs with 
460 watt NST and shoots out 13" streamers and has already about 5 hours of 
runtime on it usually running in 15 min. intervals and still works like a 
charm.

with much hope,
Eahab El Naga