Re: Overhead Transperency Cap

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Original poster: "margaret louise" <tullera-at-optusnet-dot-com.au> 


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Subject: Re: Overhead Transperency Cap

Original poster: Jan Wagner <<mailto:jwagner-at-cc.hut.fi>jwagner-at-cc.hut.fi>

Hi,

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Tesla list wrote:
  > 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.

Before starting with SSTCs I once built a couple of caps like that i.e.
for traditional spark gap coils. One A5 cap and some A4 caps. What the
transparency sheets are actually made of, no idea. It varies a lot from
manufacturer to manufacturer and can be a mixture of different polymers -
polyethylene, acrylics, acetates, and others.

But the transparency sheets certainly do work! The performance is quite
acceptable. You can see some capacitor info at

   <http://www.hut.fi/~jwagner/tesla/tc-small.htm>http://www.hut.fi/~jwagner/tesla/tc-small.htm

Hi again>> just on a side note, looking at your site. how did you manage to 
controll the outpu..as you mention low power and full power........

thanks