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Re: Salt Water Poly Caps (fwd)
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:03:15 -0600
From: mel wise <mwise-at-ns.sosis-dot-com>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Salt Water Poly Caps (fwd)
At 09:45 PM 3/29/98 -0700, you wrote:
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>Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 17:35:58 -0800 (PST)
>From: gweaver <gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>To: Tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Salt Water Poly Caps
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>So people use salt water caps in glass bottles which has a power loss of
>about 50%. So I have a new idea. Polyethylene is much better than glass and
>soft drink bottles are made of polyethylene. I know the thickness of the
>soft drink bottles are only about .010 thousands so about 10 bottles will
>have to be connected in series to get a good voltage rating. Has anyone
>tried this? Can anyone thing of a container that is made of poly and is
>thicker than a soft drink bottle?
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>IDEA
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>What if you cut the top off of 10 large 2 liter bottles and place a 16 oz.
>bottle inside each one. Fill both with salt water and connect all 10 in
>series. You may have to make several of these to get the correct uf value
>needed for your system. The power lose should be much getter than glass.
>The cap might get rather large too but its easy to make.
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>I'm not planning to build one of these. Just an idea for the guys that
>don't have good caps yet.
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>Gary Weaver
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Trash cans are made of about .060-.080 mil polyethylene.
Chris