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Simple saltwater capacitator

Simple saltwater capacitator
I am going to tell you how to build a simple salt water capacitator for storing energy or for a Tesla coil.

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How to build a Tesla coil
by DevCoder
 
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Step 1Materials

Materials
1. Snapple botle
2. Foil
3. Water
4. Salt
5. Canola oil
6. alligator clip
7. insulated wire
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8 comments
Sep 16, 2011. 5:21 PMcamokid96 says:
oh, and how the wire is set up in there throughout each bottle still confuses me.. do u cut the stung so it is open in the water and then put another end in there from onother wire and continue it to the next jar, and so on and so on?
Sep 16, 2011. 5:17 PMcamokid96 says:
is it possible to use like 6 pickle jars, or spaghetti sauce jars for this instead of snapple jars?
Mar 14, 2011. 6:19 PMmman1506 says:
Can you please use your own images, especially not from another Instructables member. Which you blatantly ripped off from DevCoder, It's just wrong. http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-build-a-Tesla-Coil/
Nov 12, 2010. 1:37 PMoutlaws says:
do you have to use iodized salt?????????
Nov 21, 2010. 11:18 PMduct tape says:
no.
Jul 17, 2010. 7:56 PMphilmcclure says:
Wouldn't this be better labeled as a Leyden Jar? Other than that, great job!

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