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Re: Faraday cage



Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Megavolt57-at-aol-dot-com>
> 
>     This is just something that I have always wondered, if you did NOT ground
> a faraday cage what would happen.  I assume it would then just become a large
> antenna and radiate the energy that is feed to it throughout the TC arcs, but
> how efficient would it be at doing this?
> 
> 73, Kc0Ion, "Ion-Boy"

	If EVERYTHING is inside, ground doesn't make any difference as nothing
leaks out of the cage.  Read up on Faraday's "ice pail experiment".

Ed