Re: Overhead Transperency Cap

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Original poster: Zimtesla-at-aol-dot-com 

In a message dated 11/19/2003 7:03:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:


>I am considering building an A4 sized plate stack cap using overhead
>transperency shhets as a dielectric.
>Has anyone had any luck/ exeperience with these...or even what theyre made 
>of.
>
>I also heard somewhere that you can test possible dielectrics for RF losses
>by puting them in the microwave and seeing if they get hot? i deas anyone?


I tried a plate capacitor from this type of material. It didn't work too 
well for me. I would suggest polyethylene in a roll type cap or a MMC caps 
discussed on the Tesla list.
Jim