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To: dljordan
"Does the EMP effect electronics if they’re not running.”"

Yes.

BTW, a microwave oven is a perfect Faraday Cage.

"A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure used in order to block electric fields. It is formed by conductive material or by a mesh of such materials. Faraday cages are named after the English scientist Michael Faraday, who invented them in 1836.[1]"

32 posted on 08/09/2016 6:14:46 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam

“BTW, a microwave oven is a perfect Faraday Cage”

A microwave oven is a terrible Faraday cage at all frequencies but 2.4Ghz.

Don’t believe me? Put a portable FM radio in your microwave. Tune it to your favorite local station. Close the door. The music will never stop.

Do not use a microwave oven. It’s a myth that keeps getting passed around.


40 posted on 08/09/2016 8:00:45 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: blam

I bought a metal garbage can for use as a Faraday cage. Lined it w/ some rubber mats to keep anything inside from coming in contact with the metal.
Keeping a couple radios, batteries, flashlights in it.

Of course if everything else in the Country is fried all I’ll pick up on the radios is white noise. :^)


54 posted on 08/09/2016 9:28:23 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: blam

Sufficiently high frequencies will pass through the mesh openings. A solid copper cage also requires spacing insulation isolating the protected items from the current in the metal skin—fiberglass would serve.


62 posted on 08/09/2016 10:10:36 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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