Re: salt water capacitors

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Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca>


At 06:45 PM 19/07/01 -0600, you wrote:
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>Original poster: "Nick Graber by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<nickgraber-at-home-dot-com>
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>hello all I am having some troubles with my tesla coil and cant seem
>to figure out how to correct it I belive i dont have the correct
>capacitance.

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> 
>Nick Graber
>nickgraber-at-home-dot-com
>

Hello Nick,

I built a geek group bucket cap just for something to do and to
have it to experiment with.  The measured capacity is 0.011 uF.
I used a copper sulphate solution, rather than brine, but that
should have no effect on the capacitance.  Mine has 12 regular
sized Corona (what an appropriate name) beer bottles with half
inch diameter copper water pipe as the electrodes.  Works well!


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