Re: Glassless Saltwater Caps

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Glassless Saltwater Caps
From: "The Meyer Family" <meyer-at-clove-dot-net.au> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 21:25:23 -0700
Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

Hello All,
I have not done much coiling lately due to the lack of good caps. My current
bank of caps are glass saltwater jobs, cheap and very bad. I would be very
glad if you were able to describe the construction of these glassless caps,
so that I can make some for my underpeforming coil. I would need about
0.025uF
Thanks
Andrew Meyer
meyer-at-clove-dot-net.au
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From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Thursday, 4 February 1999 8:39
Subject: Re: Glassless Saltwater Caps


>Original Poster: Brandywine <brandywine-at-writeme-dot-com>
>
>Mike,
>   The shock was not that hdpe outperformed glass, but that hdpe salt-water
>caps
>were nearly as good as State-of-the-Art Condenser Products units, at least
>with my
>experiments. Of course, plastic salts are huge. I built a special dolly to
>carry
>my 8-cap, .025 ufd bank.
>    At this point, I'm prepared to say that, if cash is a problem, forget
the
>commercial jobs, build a bank of plastic-salt caps. Put your Tesla funds
>into gaps
>and pigs, etc.
>    Bulky, messy, but wow!
>    Teflon bottles. No laughing matter. Report your results post-haste
>Dave Hartwick
>
>Tesla List wrote:
>
>> Original Poster: Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com
>>
>> In a message dated 2/2/99 12:17:55 AM Mountain Standard Time,
>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>> writes:
>>
>> >    Still, I thought the results I obtained were worth reporting.
>> >     I believe Richard Quick is aware of my plastic salt caps, so this
>> >  info may already be out there somewhere. Also, I've got to think that
>> >  I'm not the only one who has tried other than glass dialectics in
>> >  saltwater capacitors.
>> >  Dave
>> >  [I invented the slinky toroid]
>> >
>> Dave,
>>    Your results come as no surprise to me.  You used a much better
>dielectric
>> than glass, which is what most use in the salt water caps(which is the
>reason
>> they usually perform so poorly).   I was thinking of trying out some 1
liter
>> telfon(FEP) bottles I have, just for laughs some day.
>> Mike
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