The average faraday cage will not stop an EMP pulse. Just too many leaks.
I'd hang my hat on:
* Gas tubes
* Transorbs
* Extremely High Power Zeners
* Massive High Voltage High Current Caps
All in parallel. That's the only way to have any hope of capturing the wide spectrum of an EMP. And even then, if a few components fail, you're hosed.
But here is the thing. Outside of certain MIL-STD and NEBS systems, very few electronic systems have anything more than low power zeners and standard off-the-shelf (easily cracking, easily broken down) ceramic caps. OOOOOOoooops!
i don't know from average but the ones we had really weren't a cage but more like two boxes of sheet copper one inside of the another...
can you give me a page number in that pdf as it's 64 pages long. thx
The average faraday cage will not stop an EMP pulse. Just too many leaks.'Faraday cage' - an over-wrought saw; what are your intentions, E-field shielding only?(That's all you'll get with strictly a 'Faraday cage'.)