Even deionized water has to be continually run through a deionizer or the
resistivity drops rapidly due to leaching ions out of the metal parts. We
had a large pulser with water-insulated pulse-forming lines (5 ohm
impedance) and we had to charge (from a Marx) and fire within a few uS or
the charge would be gone. The resistivity of actively DI water was about
0.5 Mohm-meters (Or was it Mohm-cm? It was a long time ago.) We always
wondered if gold plating would help.
---Carl
-----Original Message-----
From: David Speck
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:13 PM
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
Subject: Re: [TCML] Unusual dielectric media
I'll wager that you are referring to pure deionized water, though it is
technically non-organic, as it contains no carbon.
At least that's what they used to cool most things at Fermilab, and also
the Z-pinch machine at Sandia.
Dave
On 11/25/2013 4:41 PM, dave pierson wrote:
>> 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!
> Not that far from me is a station that chops 100A/1000000V DC
> back to 60 Hz for use. Some may power this message.
>
> They don't use sugar water to cool/insulate the chopper
> stacks. Nor any sort of oil. What is used is organic,
> recyclable, 100% pure(ok 99.999%) .....bzzzzzt......
>
> If no one else posts it, I'll do so.
>
> best
> dwp
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