[TowerTalk] Example Faraday Cage for Lightning

[Larry Loen]

Jim, what's going on in that first picture and the video "next" to it?

It looks like a comely young woman, dressed as a magician's assistant, is
taking the entire "lightning" discharge through her finger.  I presume this
is some sort of trick?  Why does her finger (presumably, carefully placed
in the "inside" of the cage) attract most of the bolts (N.B. there's a
short You Tube video just after the picture in Jim's first link)?


Larry WO7R


On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 9/28/13 4:33 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
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>>  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<http://www.mos.org/live-presentations/lightning>
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> or me in a cage
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~**jimlux/photos/dcmini15.jpg<http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/photos/dcmini15.jpg>
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