Re: EM pulse

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

I suspect the lightening traveled through the tube wall.  In that case it
doesn't act as a shield?

bc

Gary Karshner wrote:

> Hugh,
>          Have you heard about what happens to a CD in a microwave. I
> suspect that the same would probably happen to a CD in an EM Pulse. A high
> field strengths many of our general rules break down. When I worked a Kitt
> Peak, we had a TV camera on the roof of the solar telescope that was
> enclosed in a 1/2"  thick walled aluminum tube with 3/4" thick end plates.
> It took a hit from lightening and the entire insides were fried even though
> I would have thought that the enclosure was an almost ideal Faraday shield.
>          Just some thoughts.
> Gary

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