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Subject: [TowerTalk] Example Faraday Cage for Lightning
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 04:47:44 -0700
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On 9/28/13 4:33 AM, Jim Lux wrote:


 From a "Faraday cage" standpoint, you don't need to have continuous
sheet.  A very coarse mesh ( 1 foot spacing) will work as well.  If
you've ever seen the cage demos at High Voltage shows (e.g. Boston
Museum of Science) the bars on the cage are fairly far apart.


http://www.mos.org/live-presentations/lightning

or me in a cage

http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/photos/dcmini15.jpg
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