User:Stivi10/ENES-100/project3

Week1 Narrative
This week I assigned the static capacitor project, I met with the group, and we started brainstorming about what needs to be done. I decided to go home and look what static capacitors are, and how to build one. My first task was to look more deeper into static capacitor, I went home, I looked up what they are, and I found that they are capacitors connected in a circuit in parallel with the load. Also, I found that static capacitors have low losses which can help increase my system branch capacity, another advantage is that it can work under ordinary atmospheric conditions, so I will be able to test it anymore it will please. As disadvantage, I found that static capacitors can be easily damaged if the voltage exceeds the rated value, and the reparation is uneconomical, so I should be careful when working with it. One the second meeting with my I explained all that to my team, and they showed me one capacitor we should be working on, the Leyden jar capacitor, so my task for this weekend is to look how I can participate in the building of this capacitor.--Stivi10 (discuss • contribs) 22:54, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

My first task
This weekend, I started where I left off, by looking into Leyden jar capacitors, I found it is a device that stores static electricity between two electrodes in the inside and outside of a glass jar. After that, I looked up what static electricity was. I found that static electricity is an imbalance of electric charges within or on the surface of a material, so in my project, I should be creating an imbalance electric charge inside the jar. After I started to look videos when they are actually making the Leiden jar capacitor, and while doing so, I got inspired, and I started t do mine. To start, I got all the materials together, then started by pouring water and salt in the container(half full), and then I used the container to have an homogeneous solution. Then I cut the container's cover so that I could put the top of the spoon inside. Then I cut some aluminum, and I taped it on one side of the container, I also taped the surrounding of the spoon just as it goes out of the container. Then I cut my earphones(because I did not have a wire), and one it of it was taped on top of the aluminum paper previous taped, and the other side was kept for later. Then I took the PVC pipe and tried to rub it with aluminum foil for a couple of seconds in other to charge the capacitor by having stick to the spoon. Then I took the second part of my earphones, and I stuck it to the spoon expecting a spark to be produced, but unfortunately nothing happened, I then concluded that I should use copper wire in other to get it to charge the capacitor, so on the next meeting with my team, I will tell them what happen, and see what they think about it, and also I will find some copper wire, and try it over again. The pictures of the assembly and the failure can be found /HeRe/--Stivi10 (discuss • contribs) 23:43, 21 April 2013 (UTC)