The Old Folks Home

[microchick]

Heavens, we laughingly say that we live in a Faraday cage. Around here a lot of the Amish homes are sided with metal siding the likes of which you see on Morton Buildings. Along with a metal roof and bingo Faraday cage.

We traveled back and forth between office and farm for 5 years many times in my husband's little VW Jetta. It was amazing what we could get into it. 5 dogs in the back seat. Two on the seat, one in the back window well and two on the floor and whatever we were hauling back to the farm crammed in the trunk. Talk about piling out of it like clowns out of a funny car, we did and it was 300 miles round trip. We would stop in real hot weather and buy bottled water and give it to the dogs to keep them cool as the AC is non existent in that auto but hey, over 50 miles per gallon fully loaded!

 

[perchie.girl]

That's the second time I've heard the word 'Faraday cage' gunna have to Google that.
Take care deb on your road to recovery. Pretty soon you'll be writing on here about your new flock at your desert home.

Faraday cage is named after its inventor.... Electromagnetic waves are x high.... Cage wire needs to be a bit smaller .... This is how Microwaves can have windows....
No opening or gap can be larger than the cage wire and must be made of metal... Copper is the preferred wire. A solid metal box works as well.

Big ole walk in Refrigerator could work too. Has to have a bottom.... But the cage part has to do with air exchange... Biggest one I have seen was on the production floor at qualcomm.... about ten by ten couple of test benches in side for trouble shooting and or experiments.

They must be grounded big time.... But will protect againsts Electromagnetic and Electrostatic energy.

deb

 

[Peep_Show]

Lucky you found out in time!!!

Paying for pre-purchase home inspections is cheap insurance and money well spent. "Sure, I have nothing better to do. I love this money pit!" said no one ever.

 

[bruceha2000]

Yeah well WE paid for the home inspection and still got screwed. Prior owners hid a lot of structural problems. Inspectors aren't allowed to do anything "destructive". Can't rip the drywall off to see if the beams are rotted. Can't rip the roof metal off to see if it is shimmed all over the place.

 

[CapricornFarm]

That's the second time I've heard the word 'Faraday cage' gunna have to Google that.
Take care deb on your road to recovery. Pretty soon you'll be writing on here about your new flock at your desert home.

Faraday cage is a metal box that protects electronics from solar flares or EMPs.

 

[ronott1]

Faraday cage is a metal box that protects electronics from solar flares or EMPs.

The entire building I work in is one of those! The walls are made of material applied to stucco wire.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We had looked at a home on 5 acres our inspector had a drone to go over the house
looking at the roof, it was when he brought a ladder in he saw up there was no trusses
on the roof a cement floor that had cracked so no crawl spaces either then only to find no well for water either... we ran had the one we bought on the back burner he did thew same solid inspection here said I we didn't take he would our agent made the same statement needless to say this one won

 

[Bunnylady]

Faraday cage is a metal box that protects electronics from solar flares or EMPs.

That's one kind. A Faraday cage is a structure that absorbs electromagnetic/electrostatic energy and sends it harmlessly to ground; thereby protecting whatever is inside from potentially harmful effects. That's why Adam could dance around inside the Faraday cage in the video I posted; the electrostatic energy generated by the Tesla coils to either side of it would have been very dangerous to anyone outside the metal cage that was protecting him.

How harmful EMP's (electromagnetic pulses) are depends on how powerful they are. We experience low-level EMP interference at my house any time our microwave gets turned on; my computer loses the Wi-Fi signal from our router until the microwave turns off. The microwave is of recent manufacture, and meets all the safety standards; so it's annoying but not dangerous. Most EMP's are like that; what people are so paranoid about is apparently there are efforts being made to create weapon-grade pulses that will fry electronics subjected to them.

 

[drumstick diva]

oh dear!!

 

[bruceha2000]

We experience low-level EMP interference at my house any time our microwave gets turned on; my computer loses the Wi-Fi signal from our router until the microwave turns off.

There is something REALLY not right about that. One of the MW, router or computer has a problem. Is the MW between the router and computer??