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To: BraveMan; Chode; joanie-f; All
Knowledge is power . . .

The average faraday cage will not stop an EMP pulse. Just too many leaks.

54 posted on 07/15/2005 11:26:05 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: BraveMan; Chode; joanie-f; All

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/defnucagency.pdf


56 posted on 07/15/2005 11:31:40 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: RadioAstronomer

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!


60 posted on 07/15/2005 11:41:12 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: RadioAstronomer

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


68 posted on 07/15/2005 11:52:52 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: RadioAstronomer; BraveMan; Chode; joanie-f
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'.)


209 posted on 07/29/2005 7:19:56 PM PDT by _Jim (<--- Ann C. and Rush L. speak on gutless Liberals (RealAudio files))
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