RE: WATER CAPACITOR EXPERIMENT!!!!

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <gary.lau-at-hp-dot-com> 

OK, I won't tell you that it won't work, but you may want to try a quick
experiment to test the basic concept, before investing a great deal of
time and materials.

Try coating a pair of bare wires with the acrylic, connecting them to
your NST HV bushings, and dipping them into the deionized water.  If
nothing happens, you're golden.  But if you see an arc to the water as
you lower the wires into it, you may need to rethink the basic concept.

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

 >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