Re: SCIENCE FAIR BOTTLE CAPACITOR ExPERIMENT HELP!!!

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Original poster: "Nightmare" <nightmare-at-bak.rr-dot-com> 

Hi, its me again, i got the NST for the project and gave u the specs and a
pic in my last post. Please show me how i can connect the rest of the coil
to it. It is an indoor transformer so i dont know how. Can someone also tell
me what kind of wire to use to connect te transformer to the spark gap,
capacitor, and coil??? thanks


Ravi
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Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: SCIENCE FAIR BOTTLE CAPACITOR ExPERIMENT HELP!!!


 > Original poster: Karl L <karl-at-coolbluesky-dot-com>
 >
 > On Thu November 20 2003 7:28 pm, Tesla list wrote:
 >  > Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <gary.lau-at-hp-dot-com>
 >
 >  > I suspect that Corona bottles are favored only because of the
 >  > appropriate name.  I've not heard of anyone doing any kind of actual
 >  > comparison to other bottle brands or colors.  If the person entering
 >  > the science fair is a minor, I wouldn't advocate using beer bottles;
 >  > glass iced tea bottles will surely work just as well.
 >
 > I actually tested many types of bottles, both glass and plastic.  The
 > Corona beer bottles absolutely worked the best.  I never even considered
 > the name connection.  The bottles are a heavy-walled construction,
 > narrower than most beer bottles, and have a very thin neck.  This
 > combination allowed for a higher density per given space, and I
 > experienced no failures whatsoever.
 >  >
 >  >  >If you are on a super-tight budget - a 2 liter soda bottle either
 >  >  > wrapped in foil, or immersed in NaCl will also make an awesome cap.
 >  >  > The corona seems to appear right at the solution line, and can
 >  >  > ultimately  destroy the cap.unless an  oil layer is floated.
 >  >
 >  > Plastic soda bottles should not be used for Tesla coil caps.  The
 >  > dielectric losses in the plastic are many times higher than glass.
 >  >
 > However, an experimenter on a tight buget can utilize a plastic soda
 > bottle cap, and get fairly good results.  I tested many types of bottles,
 > and surprisingly, certain bottled water containers made excellent caps.
 > I never had one "fail", but corona leakage at the electrolyte level would
 > often degrade their performance.
 >
 >  >  >Part of the fun and educational experience is in designing your own
 >  >  > cap, and testing :"by fire"  You should have no problem in coming up
 >  >  > with a hypothosis of some sort.
 >
 > See my post on rolled transparancy caps
 >  >
 >  > Absolutely agree.
 >  >
 >  > Gary Lau
 >  > MA, USA
 >
 >