Re: Liquid Layered Capacitors

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

Hi Dave,

You make a good argument for that particular perspective. I have 
never considered a negative outcome to be a failed experiment, so I 
don't consider that I've ever wasted my money in that way. My first 
TC cap was a large sheet of glass with foil glued to both sides. 
Lasted 5 days. Later, I had an oil-filled 5-gal. fish tank filled 
with glass and aluminum plates, and I still have a 4in.X 24in rolled 
poly-cap that is starting it's 6th year. I also have a number of 
Maxwell "doorstops" and dead "hockey pucks"
Of course, I'm one of those people who has baked for 40 years and, by 
choice, will never own a bread machine. To each his own priorities.

Matt D.


In a message dated 11/28/06 1:15:31 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Original poster: "Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Matt

If I could offer a thought experiment here.

You want to learn something; you go to a library and read up on the subject,
pick one or two ideas you find in the books and start from there.

Consider the membership here to be a library.

You may have a cool idea that everyone here will dump on ---BUT--- that is
because they might have tried the same idea or something similar themselves
and it failed spectacularly. Or they have had more years of practical
experience than you and can see things that you simply do not.

There is a difference between spending time playing with stuff and learning
things and tossing your hard earned cash and your time down a useless
rat-hole...