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. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 425-222-5066 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci

