[TCML] party cup capacitors

[Gary Lau]

Additionally, with foam, the entrapped air inherent in foam will ionize and
degrade the polystyrene until it fails.  A high voltage dielectric cannot
contain air.

I think that any DIY cap is doomed to a very short lifetime unless enough
units are seriesed to minimize the plate-to-plate voltage and corona
attacking the dielectric.

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:54 PM, dave pierson <dave_p at comcast.net> wrote:

> Curiously, i was pondering this at the Texas Teslathon, tho more
> on using 'soda' bottles in analogy to Tesla's champagne bottles.
>
> The downside of 'stacking' cups, thin or coffee foam, would be
> the difficulty in getting the voltage/field to equalize on the
> various layers...
>
> best
>
> New dwp:     dave_p at comcast.net
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