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Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?



On 11/01/96 22:26:10 you wrote:
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>> >> Subject: Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
>> Subject: Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
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>>From hullr@whitlock.comFri Nov  1 21:49:04 1996
>Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 11:18:45 -0800
>From: Richard Hull <hullr@whitlock.com>
>To: tesla@pupman.com
>Subject: Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?
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>Tesla List wrote:
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>Water caps would be great for Tesla coils, but for the fact that it is so 
>terribly ionic in nature.  The plates would have to be metal or something 
>highly conductive.  Even with specially treated water, it would 
>immediately leach ions from the surface of the conducting plates and 
>quickly lose its dielctric properties and drift towards being a nice 
>conductor itself!
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>I rely of triple distilled water for my dielectric water explosion 
>research.  Once the water is introduced into the accelerator/gun I must 
>fire quickly or the reaction is spoiled due to ionic cunduction.
>
>Richad Hull, TCBOR
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Wouldn't it be possible to insulate the conductors in a water filled 
capacitor to prevent ionic migration into the H2O?



Phil Gantt (pgantt@ix.netcom.com)
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