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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Sat Aug 14 1999 - 20:49:30 EDT
In a message dated 8/7/99 12:24:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:
<< Only way to save your gear then is to have it in the all metal oven
or other all metal box to form a Faraday cage. Whew, my head hurts.
Frank >>
I can second everything Frank says.
You can try to drain off any transient voltage spikes from the power supply
wiring to the computer or other device, but then it's the induced voltage,
either capacativley or inductively coupled, (like a one turn transformer with
an air core), that will kill your microelectronics. The core may be air and
not conduct electromagnetic energy well but all you need in the guts of a
microprocedessor is a few volts higher than the design voltage to arc over
micro insulation to completely destroy the usefulness of the device. Only
the Faraday cage will protect it reasonably well.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Anchored Norfolk VA
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