Thats right 33 microfarads, and I got it to pulse an led for proof!
I made it with copper tape, putting down some glue stick, then put a lining of glycerine down. It would be better without the glue, but the glycerine beads against the metal so it doesnt make a good enough separation.
Getting it thinner than a rizla paper makes the difference.
I always thought u needed to make an electrolytic cap to get it thin enough, but it actually isnt true - liquid separation is as thin as it!
I had to muck around with it a bit, but it did pulse the led after I got the multimeter reading.
I actually dont know for sure what the farad rating is exactly, because I have to do it again neater and more organized, but theres definitely alot of power there.
But... the funny thing is I started getting a bad taste in my mouth, cause I think the glue stick reacted with the glycerine and made something noxious, so I had to get it all out of the kitchen away from the food and get my fingers the hell away from my eye balls.
With a rating like that, I could make it 50 micrometres squared and still get quarter of a picofarad! So I could even make a ram chip out of it, and maybe over 10cm^2 get half a megabit, and the caps for each bit have a quarter of a picofarad to keep the bits.
I made it with copper tape, putting down some glue stick, then put a lining of glycerine down. It would be better without the glue, but the glycerine beads against the metal so it doesnt make a good enough separation.
Getting it thinner than a rizla paper makes the difference.
I always thought u needed to make an electrolytic cap to get it thin enough, but it actually isnt true - liquid separation is as thin as it!
I had to muck around with it a bit, but it did pulse the led after I got the multimeter reading.
I actually dont know for sure what the farad rating is exactly, because I have to do it again neater and more organized, but theres definitely alot of power there.
But... the funny thing is I started getting a bad taste in my mouth, cause I think the glue stick reacted with the glycerine and made something noxious, so I had to get it all out of the kitchen away from the food and get my fingers the hell away from my eye balls.
With a rating like that, I could make it 50 micrometres squared and still get quarter of a picofarad! So I could even make a ram chip out of it, and maybe over 10cm^2 get half a megabit, and the caps for each bit have a quarter of a picofarad to keep the bits.
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