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Re: Salt Water

Hi all,
it may be worth remembering that Tesla used salt water capacitors in his
Colorado Springs station. Instead of beer bottles, he used high quality
champagne bottles, as he believed them to be made of a superior glass. Anyway,
he over come there loss by injecting more power into the system, he also had to
put up with the occasional exploding bottle. Salt Caps are not the best method
(it's where I started), but sometimes it's all you've got, be it because you
have not got the cash, or because you are having to wait for material
science to
catch-up with your inventive genius.

Regards,

Gavin, U.K

Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: "William Parn" <parn-at-fgm-dot-com>
>
> Hi Daniele & All,
>
> The easiest one I have heard about is to take clear
> beer bottles and put them into a 5 gallon bucket.
> Fix up a batch of concentrated salt water solution.
> pour the solution both inside and outside the bottles,
> up to about the point where the bottle start to move
> inward.  Pour some type of oil about 1/4" of it into
> all the bottles and outside them.  put a wire into
> each of the bottles then gang them up for one side
> of the cap.  Then put one wire on the outside of the
> bottles, that is the other terminal.  Then maybe
> hook them up to some bolts coming through the top
> of the 5 gallon bucket.
>
> I have never tried this, however I have made foil
> and salt water beer bottle caps.  But they do take
> a bit of time.  If I ever build another salt water
> cap the above method is what I am going to use.
>
> I apologize for not remembering and not having the
> time right now to go look for where I got this idea
> from.  It sounds like a sound approach though.
>
> I may put more than one wire outside the bottles
> placed at different locations just to try and
> help keep the losses down.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill Parn
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tesla List [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 6:24 PM
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: Salt Water
> >
> >
> > Original Poster: "Daniele Bortoluzzi" <dbortoluzzi-at-sogeda.it>
> >
> > Hi all again :)
> >
> > I am near to wind my first coil... one of the part I want to build now is
> > the tank capacitor.
> > I already know the MMC is the best, but I do not know if I will find the
> > money required for it.
> > So I was thinking about salt water...  I would like to build a modular
> > capacitor to use with my different transformers.
> > 5Kv/50mA , 8Kv/20mA , 12Kv/50mA... I have others, so I do not want to bore
> > with too much detail.
> > For the capacitor matching I use wintesla.
> > Now my question is where can I find "complete" documentation about salt
> > water caps, and what you think about it.
> > At the moment what I need is a working coil  :) so I need to build a
> > capacitor quick to do too.
> > Can or should I start with a smaller cap than the exact matched?
> >
> > Tnx again
> > Daniele
> >
> >
> >