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Re: Distilled water as a dielectric?



Original poster: Jerry Chamkis <jchamkis@xxxxxxx>

As an aside (but not offered as a practical solution) Tesla patented an Ice
Capacitor.  If my faded memory serves, it had a surprisingly high dielectric
constant-  as in the 3 - 4  range??

Should be good for SOME kind of mischief!

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 10:10 am, Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <gary.lau@xxxxxx>
>
> Hi Greg:
>
> There's a reason one can't find distilled water caps in parts
> catalogs.  They require water purity way beyond what is normally
> achievable, and even then, their use is limited to very narrow duty cycles
> and pulse widths.  They won't work in our application - sorry.

Cheers-
--
Jerry Chamkis
jchamkis@xxxxxxx