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Re: Faraday cage
Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <davep-at-quik-dot-com>
>>It sure would be cheaper and easier than building a
>>faraday cage.
> A couple of questions:
> If you took chicken wire and enclosed all 6 sides of
> your spark gap would it be considered a faraday cage?
Yes.
IF the edges are joined. (bonded).
To be most effective, the leads thru the cage wall
need some sort of filtering. I would recommend
enclosing the _motor_ (if motorized) and
filtering THOSE leads as well.
> Is a faraday cage supposed to be isolated from ground or grounded?
Yes.
8)>>
Speaking as one who has engineered (and debugged) such:
The physics are: it makes no difference.
Practically, its usually easier to ground it, and has
marginal safety improvements.
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