On Oct 25, 2007, at 9:45 AM, William Beaty wrote:
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.
I missed that. I've been busy working on my roof and other last
minute construction things before freeze up. Now that the snow is on
the ground maybe I can be more attentive. Sorry for the confusion on
my part. I was under the impression or at least hoping Ron picked
or would eventually pick a specific video and was going to provide a
parts list, instructions, and circuit diagram etc., to encourage
replication. Maybe that would have stopped the idle speculation.
There have been over 150 posts and moving targets for replication, so
that makes things a bit confusing to say the least.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
