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Faraday Cage: How to Make on the Cheap
YouTube ^ | 1/6/12 | LDSPrepper

Posted on 05/15/2012 2:04:08 PM PDT by Kartographer

This may well be the best Faraday cage you can make on the cheap and the best Faraday cage at any price. I'm not saying that to brag but I really believe in this design. If you are at all concerned about protecting your electronic equipment from either a man made or solar EMP please consider making a Faraday storage cabinet like this. The cabinet cost me $100, the tape $32 and the aluminum insulation was free. You might be able to make this Faraday cage for less if you stop by construction sites and get left over aluminum insulation and ask for thirteen feet of aluminum duct tape.

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Another DIY project.
1 posted on 05/15/2012 2:04:18 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

Preppers’ PING!


2 posted on 05/15/2012 2:05:48 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Godzilla; Quix; backwoods-engineer

PING!


3 posted on 05/15/2012 2:07:49 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Thanks, Kartographer.


4 posted on 05/15/2012 2:07:49 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Kartographer

Been following the emp information here. Pretty well balanced and documented.

http://modernsurvivalonline.com/


5 posted on 05/15/2012 2:08:27 PM PDT by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: Kartographer

What you need to place in your Faraday cage is a diesel generator so that, when that EMP goes off, you can sell electricity at whatever price you set.

You’ll be a rich man in a liveless world.


6 posted on 05/15/2012 2:14:18 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Kartographer

What you need to place in your Faraday cage is a diesel generator so that, when that EMP goes off, you can sell electricity at whatever price you set.

You’ll be a rich man in a liveless world.


7 posted on 05/15/2012 2:14:18 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Kartographer

Just find a junk microwave...


8 posted on 05/15/2012 2:14:43 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Romney barely won in OH with a 12-1 money advantage, he can't beat Obama that way.)
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Useful prepper stuff about building a useful Faraday cage re EMP pulse hazard etc.

I love y’all.

Please be prayerful . . . walk close to God . . . be safe in His arms in all such matters day by day . . . cue song . . . Day by Day . . .


9 posted on 05/15/2012 2:14:43 PM PDT by Quix (Time is short: INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Kartographer

Why not make a whole body tin foil hat?


10 posted on 05/15/2012 2:15:50 PM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: Kartographer

Don’t forget a good Earth ground.


11 posted on 05/15/2012 2:17:09 PM PDT by TonyInOhio ( It is later than you think)
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To: Kartographer

Why bother?

Surely there will be marauding bands of teenagers and sports fans who will come and take your radio from you!


12 posted on 05/15/2012 2:17:09 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: TonyInOhio

And that ground needs to be CLOSE to your cage, or else it will act as an antenna for EMP.

The problem with this setup is, there is really no way to test it. We don’t know if it will work at all.


13 posted on 05/15/2012 2:21:30 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Kartographer

BFL


14 posted on 05/15/2012 2:22:33 PM PDT by TEXOKIE
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Just find a junk microwave...

Awesome idea!! I'd never even considered that.

15 posted on 05/15/2012 2:22:50 PM PDT by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: Kartographer

How are you protecting the input power lines?


16 posted on 05/15/2012 2:29:15 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (TIN)
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To: Kartographer

17 posted on 05/15/2012 2:36:30 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: Kartographer

I don’t think a Faraday Cage is sufficient to stop an EMP.I believe you need a mu-metal cage, to block the magnetic part of the pulse.


18 posted on 05/15/2012 2:37:35 PM PDT by expat2
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To: Kartographer

If your home is already grounded, as it should be per building codes, you can ground your cabinet to it.


19 posted on 05/15/2012 2:37:58 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT)
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Use the link at #5 by Godzilla to find out why your suggestions will not work.


20 posted on 05/15/2012 2:40:15 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT)
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