Faraday Cage

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Original poster: "Harold Weiss by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com>

Hi All,

I'm sick of waiting for a somewhat warm calm night to fire my coils.  I am 
also tired of trying to get my father away from home because of his 
pacemaker.  I am now building a Faraday cage in the basement.  It will be 
10' X 10' X 7' and be built out of 3/4" Cu pipe and chicken wire, with a 
1/4" hardware cloth roof.  Other than the door which will be caged, there 
will be two ports, one 6" X 6" port for cable passthru, and one 6" X 6" 
camera port.  Grounding will be made by a 8' copper ground rod, and 3 
strands of # 6 bare ground wire.  The 8' rod will hit lake level during the 
summer, but the lake level drops about 1 1/2' in the winter.  The top of 
the rod will be monumented with a concrete pad so I don't hit it with a 
lawnmower.  I am thinking of adding a separate RF ground for the coils.  Is 
this separate RF ground okay?

David E Weiss