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Re: Building a Faraday's cage ?

Subject: Re: Building a Faraday's cage ?
From: "Meindert Sprang"
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:40:39 +0200
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.basics, sci.electronics.design
"Bob Masta" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> As others have noted, this problem may not be helped by
> a Faraday cage, which only provides electrostatic shielding.
> But it should be easy enough to test this for yourself, by
> wrapping your guitar in aluminum foil.  (You should first
> wrap it in plastic so the foil doesn't contact the strings.)
> Then ground the foil... presto!  A mini-Faraday cage!

Two corrections:

1) a faraday cage shields agaist electrostatic and magnetic fields, in case
of an AC field.

2) a faraday cage does not need to be grounded.

Meindert



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