I haven't tried it yet, but there is some literature out there. Look up
"Syrup dielectric strength" and a number of studies pop up, such as
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0260877411003220. This
article is about honey and syrup together, but there are mpore studies about
syrup alone too . . .
PBT
----- Original Message -----
From: "David" <drieben@xxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Unusual dielectric media
> This may sound crazy, but but isn't corn syrup nothing more than a near
> saturated AQUEOUS solution of glucose sugar? Unless the "aqueous" is
> highly deionized water, I couldn't imagine corn syrup being any kind of a
> suitable dielectric medium, at least not for high voltage!
>
> David
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 11:45 AM, <mrapol@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> For a while now I have submerged capacitor arrays in dielectric media to
>> suppress corona,. arc-over, etc. I first used castor oil (K=4.7) and that
>> worked fine, but it's not so easy to get. I read on a list dielectric
>> materials that glycerin has a high K (47-68!) but I was afraid that,
>> being anhydrous, it would absorb water and lead to corrosion. I set up
>> four 20KV caps in parallel in a bottle and filled it with off the shelf
>> glycerin, the USP kind sold as an emollient. After more than a year there
>> isn't a speck of corrosion on the caps or linking hardware.
>>
>> Recently I found a new list of dielectric media and saw a listing for
>> "syrup" (?) having a K of 50-80. Apparently this is corn syrup. Now,
>> corn syrup ought to considerably cheaper than castor oil or glycerin. I
>> think I'll start a new bottled array soon. I don't suppose anyone out
>> there has tried this already?
>>
>> PBT
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