Re: Salt Water Caps

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Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com> 

Hi Rich,

I used to use 1 gal apple cider jugs.  They would run about 2700-3000pF
each.  I had mine filled with salt water and used aluminium foil for the
other plate.  I had a bunch fail when I set them on an old refigerator
shelf.  The current was too much for the foil and burned it away causing the
jugs to puncture.  They worked well on aluminium sheet.  The top of the foil
would have 3/4" streamers when in operation.  They were lossy but worked.
Salt water/salt water plates would work better with less loss.

David E Weiss


 > Original poster: "Rich" <rdjmgmt-at-socket-dot-net>
 >
 > Well I started off with an oversize spark gap, the 9 titanium tubes have
 > been set aside for the next coil and now have tungsten rods as a single
gap
 > with a small fan for my first coil.
 >   Now to my cap. I was looking at some bottles I have, they are heavy
clear
 > glass, 2 ½ liter in size, have heavy plastic screw lids. They were for
 > nitric acid shipment. I have 12 of them total . I know the set up would be
 > big but size is no problem in my workshop. I was thinking about putting
the
 > bottles in a saltwater tub. I was wondering if any one had tried working
 > with larger bottles.
 >
 > Rich
 >
 >
 >