----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Sneath" <bsneath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 11:01 AM Subject: [TCML] Coax Capacitor
a rather silly question i suppose... has anyone tryed coax as a tank capacitor, i think its 10 pF per foot... it'd be good up untill about 15kv would it not? as for inductance, its in the 10's of uH range. you could buy a roll cut it into 1' lengths, solder to a pair of end plates...
I think you will need a lot of cable to get even to 10nF value. Also coax usually has air gaps which will ionise and lower the voltage to maybe just a few hundred volts...
For what you may pay on coax you might be better buying some flat sheets of plastic to make some flat plate caps instead...
My 2 cents worth..... Chris _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla