how to make a capacitor with foil,butter paper and two copper wires?
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Depends on size, but if it fits then its fine. It wouldn't pose a health hazard if that's what you mean.
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Easy enough. You'll need two sheets of foil seperated by the paper. It may be wise to make the sheet of paper a little larger than the foil in order to prevent that the edges of foil tough each other. You have to find some way to connect the wires to the foil. While not ideal,sticky tape may do. (You're just doing an experiment right)? Voila, you have a basic working capacitor. You may roll it up like a pancake if you wish and perhaps even wrap some plastic around it. Your imagination is the limit.
A capacitor is two plates separated by an insulator (dialectric), in this case your paper (you could also use kitchen film wrap, plastic bag, a sheet of glass). just make a sandwich foil/paper/foil, ensure that the sheets of foil are completely isolated from each other. Attach one wire to the bottom sheet of foil and another to the top. piece of foil - should be OK just to strip some of the insulation and lie it on the foil. If you want to roll it up, put another sheet of paper on top of the 'sandwich' before rolling to insulate the two sheets of foil. Use an ohmeter (or multimeter set on ohm range) connected to the two wires to make sure there's no short circuit caused by the two pieces of foil touching somewhere (the needle will go to zero and stay there). Depending on the size of the capacitor you *MAY* be able to check it is working as a capacitor. Set your ohmeter to a high range and connect again to the wires. If the capacitor is working you may see the needle 'kick' then slowly move to high resistance reading. However you are likely to need a capacitance meter to get a reliable reading You could also build a bigger capacitor by increasing the number of sheets of foil/paper, with the 'odd' sheets connected to one wire and the 'even' sheets of foil connected to the other. The easiest way will probably be to have bottom sheet sticking out on the left hand side of the the paper, the next sticking out to the right, the third to the left and so on. If you want to roll this, you will have to have a couple of larger sheets of paper on the top and bottom to insulate the 'odd' and 'even' sheets as you roll.as you roll
Well the Scottish account for most of Inventions we use today so say what you like we are no thick and the world loves us. Jealousy is a sin!! I am sure we have the best surgeons or at least produce them!! And medically superior on treatment and research!!
do you have a death wish.?
Depends on size, but if it fits then its fine. It wouldn't pose a health hazard if that's what you mean.
A capacitor is two plates separated by an insulator (dialectric), in this case your paper (you could also use kitchen film wrap, plastic bag, a sheet of glass). just make a sandwich foil/paper/foil, ensure that the sheets of foil are completely isolated from each other. Attach one wire to the bottom sheet of foil and another to the top. piece of foil - should be OK just to strip some of the insulation and lie it on the foil. If you want to roll it up, put another sheet of paper on top of the 'sandwich' before rolling to insulate the two sheets of foil. Use an ohmeter (or multimeter set on ohm range) connected to the two wires to make sure there's no short circuit caused by the two pieces of foil touching somewhere (the needle will go to zero and stay there). Depending on the size of the capacitor you *MAY* be able to check it is working as a capacitor. Set your ohmeter to a high range and connect again to the wires. If the capacitor is working you may see the needle 'kick' then slowly move to high resistance reading. However you are likely to need a capacitance meter to get a reliable reading You could also build a bigger capacitor by increasing the number of sheets of foil/paper, with the 'odd' sheets connected to one wire and the 'even' sheets of foil connected to the other. The easiest way will probably be to have bottom sheet sticking out on the left hand side of the the paper, the next sticking out to the right, the third to the left and so on. If you want to roll this, you will have to have a couple of larger sheets of paper on the top and bottom to insulate the 'odd' and 'even' sheets as you roll.as you roll
Easy enough. You'll need two sheets of foil seperated by the paper. It may be wise to make the sheet of paper a little larger than the foil in order to prevent that the edges of foil tough each other. You have to find some way to connect the wires to the foil. While not ideal,sticky tape may do. (You're just doing an experiment right)? Voila, you have a basic working capacitor. You may roll it up like a pancake if you wish and perhaps even wrap some plastic around it. Your imagination is the limit.
