Re: Secondary form idea?

["Ed Phillips" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov>
> 
> I haven't tested it or have any basis for my statements other than gut
> feel...
> 
> Glass, as a class, is somewhat RF lossy.  However, the glass they wind the
> tank with may be fairly good quality (it has to be, to be able to be spun
> into yarn).  I would imagine the lossiness to be around that for G10 or
> comparable composites.  At the 100 kHz kinds of frequencies, then, it is
> just fine.

	There isn't enough RF field across the form to affect the losses
significantly, almost independent of the material.  .

Ed