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Re: faraday cage



Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Drake,

Your best bet would be copper pipe instead of PVC. I used chicken wire on mine and it works pretty good as a limited Faraday cage/strike cage. You will have to filter the power at the cage wall. And the cage will be your RF ground. Keep the cage seperate from power ground. I connected mine to it's own ground stake. The only radio station that I can pick up inside the cage is the one FM station a mile from my house. That station keeps getting into my pro audio gear no matter what I do. But the cage does keep my coils from messing with things.

David E Weiss

Original poster: "Drake Schutt" <drake89@xxxxxxxxx>

Hello again

I want to first say that last weekend I went down to see Dave Rieben's coil last week and it was AWESOME! I had never seen a coil in real life, and seeing all of his hv gear and his coil was great (especially the quarter shrinker). He also gave me some 942s he had so maybe I can beef up my main cap. ^_^. Ive been searching through the list archive for a little while and what Im wonder about now is faraday cages. If i build a form out of small pvc pipe and cover it with metal screen or chicken wire, and somehow attach a fat ground connection to it will it work? Can i ground it to the same rf ground as the seconday? How big can the mesh of the cage be? (for a smallish 12/30 nst powered coil)

Also, i have to ask about these suit things. Ive seen dr. megavolt or whatever he's called and some other guy with another enormous coil wearing one, and obviously im intrigued. Do these things operated on the same principles as a faraday cage? I know its dangerous, but can it really be that hard to make one for my purposes? I mean heck, i saw some obviously insane woman sitting on top of a torroid shooting lightning out her fingers on the discovery channel and she didnt have anything on! Sorry for the long and juvenile post, and as always your knowledge is invaluable.

-Drake