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Re: Salt Water

HELLO, 

  I will find out how good a bucket cap will work today.
  I also made bottle caps and have a wole 22 for 20.46nf + bucket cap 13.06nf
with 12 bottles i hope this works so far i got 12" sparks to grd off my coil
in to the air i get 16" stremers coool.

   kid-kv 


> Original Poster: "William Parn" <parn@fgm.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@pupman.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 6:24 PM
>> To: tesla@pupman.com
>> Subject: Salt Water
>> 
>> 
>> Original Poster: "Daniele Bortoluzzi" <dbortoluzzi@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
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
Regards