RE: PVC secondaries

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Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>

Has anyone ever dehydrated a piece of PVC under laboratory conditions to
determine the amount of water retention? If RF-losses of PVC are high, it
seems like RF-heating would dehydrate the PVC form. What is the evidence
that PVC is a high RF-loss material? To me, high loss means that significant
amounts of energy from the electromagnetic field is converted to heat
energy. I have not seen any of my PVC forms attempting to meltdown during
tesla coil operation. Maybe these charges against PVC are myths.

Godfrey Loudner   

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> Original poster: "Dale Nassar by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> Greg,
> PVC is such a popular coil form because it is cheap and easy to 
> find.  Otherwise it is not a good Tesla secondary due the the high RF 
> losses of PVC at these frequencies--also it holds water. 
>