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Plastic Bottle SW caps ?
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Subject: Plastic Bottle SW caps ?
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 23:08:16 -0500
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From: Mad Coiler [SMTP:tesla_coiler@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 21, 1998 5:27 PM
To: tesla@pupman.com
Subject: Re: Plastic Bottle SW caps ?
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>From: Hollmike@aol.com [SMTP:Hollmike@aol.com]
>Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 6:34 AM
>To: tesla@pupman.com
>Subject: Re: Plastic Bottle SW caps ?
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>Will,
> If I am not mistaken, soda bottles are make from PETE. I believe
that
>this is the same as mylar, which doesn't handle high frequency too
well. I
>would suggest looking for polyethylene bottles such as milk bottles are
made
>from. Then again, what would it hurt to try the soda bottles?
>Mike Hollingsworth
I used a bunch of Mountain Dew Quick Slam bottles in my first TC. It was
incredibly poor but worked. Using two OBIT's I could get about 9"
sparks. Lately, with hockey puck caps and a new RQ spark gap I have
attained 29" sparks from it. The one problem is that even at only 10kV
the thicknes of the walls of the bottles arent enough to hold off the
voltage. I had two banks of bottles in series, I belive like 6 bottles
in each bank. I dont remember for sure but I think it was overall around
.006 uF. I would recomend if you want to build a dirt cheap capacitor
that you may want to try glass bottles.
Tristan Stewart
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