On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:

> Horace Heffner wrote:
> > Good point.  Another option along the same lines might be to simply
> > strip a section of the ground wire and connect the ground wire to the
> > faraday cage at the entry point using an alligator clip.  It the
> > lights go out then the power is from an external source.
> Wow, that's perfect!
>
> Now why wasn't this obvious to start with?   Dunno -- maybe it was to
> others, but it sure wasn't obvious to me, at least.

But Ron DID report that the lights go out if you ground the cage.  And
then there apparently was a bunch of flaming going on about whether a
Faraday cage is still a shield if not grounded.
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