Does anyone have a good URL for easy-to-understand information regarding Faraday Cages? On the outside chance that there is an EMP blast, I would like to protect a few electronic devices.

It looks like any conductive *sealed* metal box will do, but any further pointers would help.

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), December 23, 1999

Answers

I would just cover the electronics with my many tinfoil hats and garments.

-- porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), December 23, 1999.

a grounded sealed metal box. Field run fencing, doubled and welded will do. Then ground with heavy guage copper unshielded. May also help with solar max coronal ejection....

bona fortuna in millennium nova...

-- plieny the younger (pliney@vallier.com), December 23, 1999.

Do a deja news search in misc.survivalism under this topic. There was an execellent thread about this a month or so ago.

Hope this helps

-- Stars and Stripes (stars_n_stripes@my-deja.com), December 23, 1999.

If you need a Faraday cage to protect your stuff. You aren't going to need your stuff.... Jeeze.

-- (...@.......), December 23, 1999.

A good faraday cage will eliminate interference in audio and video equipment from your computer. I used to run a recording studio and that is how we kept the computer noise out of our work.... the control room is built into one.

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), December 23, 1999.

Someone suggested a metal garbage can with a tight lid, grounded. Sounds good to me so that's what I'm going to do.

-- ds (ds@deepsouth.com), December 23, 1999.

I pulled all the shelves out of the spare refrigerator in the garage and lined it with 2 inch thick styrofoam. Then I drilled a small hole in the wall and ran a heavy guage copper wire through to a grounding rod outside. Should work just fine and cost about $5.00 (I already had the grounding rod) Good luck to you all

-- watching (the@balldrop.net), December 24, 1999.

Plieny - you and dad had some good ideas.

-- Dan G (earth_changes@hotmail.com), December 24, 1999.

field fencing works great for low frequency - high frequency will go right through it like it is not even there. best 'realistic and affordable' solution is to use a very small spacing copper mesh - consistancy of window screening or finer ... available at, or through, most sheet metal shops. Can also be found in many of the larger hardware stores. Look in the screening department.

BTW - Copper can be welded with a propane torch and electrical grade solder.

-- hiding in plain (sight@edge. of no-where), December 24, 1999.

If you're close, go to Boeing Surplus. They're closed for vacation, right now, but early January should do. Buy sheets of PC board copper-plated for 50 cents a pound or something like that. It's super thin, you can fold it like cardboard and solder the seams.

-- bw (home@puget.sound), December 24, 1999.