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To: Myrddin

It seems to me that a microwave oven is a faraday cage. If I cant find an old one big enough to cram the TV and the box into, I would think I could take apart an old one and figure out how to incorporate parts of several old ones into one faraday cage.


257 posted on 01/12/2008 2:06:25 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre
A microwave oven of current manufacture is essentially a Faraday cage for the safety of the user. 1200 watts at 2.450 GHz does a pretty effective job of cooking things containing water.

When you build your Faraday cage, remember it needs to cover all the way around. It should also be grounded at a single point. The tricky part is being able to move power into the cage to run stuff without providing a leakage path. Feed-through capacitors and series inductors will play a part in doing that right. The door will typically need something called "finger stock" to provide a slightly spring-loaded conducting path all the way around. The largest Faraday cage I've ever worked inside was designed to keep the EMP from a nuke weapon from destroying the computers inside. It is tested weekly.

258 posted on 01/12/2008 7:51:06 PM PST by Myrddin
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