Re: A newbie question

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Original poster: Gregory Hunter <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

Hello Greg,

A Swiss coiler? This may be a first for the list! I've
gotten good results with beer bottle caps. You might
want to use a beer bottle cap to get started with, and
eventually upgrade your system with a polypropylene
mult-mini cap. Besides being much smaller and lighter,
the MMC also gives better performance than a saltwater
cap.

Feel free to browse my site for beer bottle cap
information.

Best Regards,

Greg
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "Gergely Nagy"
 > <gergely.nagy-at-bluewin.ch>
 >
 > Hi All,
 >
 > 3. The other hardnut is the capacitor (as everywhere
 > else). I found the
 > description of the beer-bottle capacitor in George's
 > booklet and I think
 > it'd be OK to build it. There is just one thing
 > which is not clear. So when
 > bottles are filled up and are in the "dishpan" and
 > its filled up too to
 > within about 0.25" of the top, do you have to seal
 > the "dishpan"? Otherwise
 > if I got it right, the interconnected bottle
 > terminals is one pole and the
 > metal inside of the "dishpan" is the other.   OR
 > Would you rather suggest
 > to buy the capacitor? Since it wouldn't be a big TC
 > I am sure that I won't
 > need a 0.3uF 35Kv capacitor. How can I figure out
 > what I need?
 >
 > Greg
 > a humble newbie