RE: [TCML] Secondary coil form wall thickness

["Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>]

I don't believe that RF losses have ever been shown to occur to a significant degree with any type of plastic secondary form.  It's not like in a capacitor, where the voltage across the dielectric is thousands of volts per mil and dielectric losses become significant.  I think thin-wall secondary tubes are preferred simply because it's lighter.

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of David Nelson
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 10:03 PM
> To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> Subject: [TCML] Secondary coil form wall thickness
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> >From recent discussions about the green drain pipe I gather that coil wall
> thickness makes no difference. True? It's just that years ago people were sugesting
> that thin walled tubes are best due to their lower RF losses. Comments?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave Nelson

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