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Re: Water Pig
Original poster: "Black Moon by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist@qwest.net>" <black_moons@hotmail.com>
Most likey it is, just very high resistance, PS, even a few mm of
dielectric will throw your capasatance WAYYYYY down, you'll want as thin as
possable dielectric for your voltage for the highest capasatance
>From: "Tesla list" <tesla@pupman.com>
>To: tesla@pupman.com
>Subject: Re: Water Pig
>Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 12:19:40 -0600
>
>Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz
><teslalist@qwest.net>" <steve@scopeboy.com>
>
>At 19:07 10/05/03 -0600, you wrote:
>>Original poster: "Harvey Norris by way of Terry Fritz
>><teslalist@qwest.net>" <harvich@yahoo.com>
>>
>>
>>I use a wallmart poly water pitchure surrounded by
>>aluminum foil, and a center 2.5 inch copper pipe as
>>the inner axial capacity, for a practical water
>>capacitor. The poly barrier prevents all these
>>objections about the water being conductive stuff.
>
>You'll probably find that the system is behaving just like a saltwater
>bottle cap. I.e. the water and copper pipe work together as the inner
>electrode, the poly container is the dielectric, and the foil is the outer
>electrode. I doubt the water is doing anything dielectric at all. Of
>course, you could prove me wrong, if you added salt and the capacitance
>increased drastically ;)
>
>Steve C.