[SGVLUG] Calling the brightest of cal tech and other nerds!

Dustin Laurence dustin at laurences.net
Fri Dec 22 16:14:36 PST 2006


On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:18:56PM -0800, Christopher Smith wrote:
> Don Gibbs wrote:
> > A conventional metal case is not an electrically isolated Faraday cage
> > (with one meter air gap).
> 
> It's an aluminum case.... I'm missing how it's not enough like a Faraday
>  cage to keep the charge from spreading the party to the components on
> the inside.

"Enough like"?  I await the explanation of why a conductive enclosure is
not *exactly* a Faraday cage.

Dustin

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