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Chicken Wire Cage Impervious to 400 kV from Tesla Coil

submitted by EndAll

1 decade 4 years 9 months 1 week ago

Portable Tesla coil pumps out the volts but cant breach a home-made Faraday cage made from chicken wire. kV = kilo volt, a unit of potential equal to a thousand volts.

5 Comments

Wow, sounds like the chronosphere powering up.

is it bad to touch your tongue to the cage?

ant

>> ^gwiz665:
Wow, sounds like the chronosphere powering up.

Good old Red Alert!

It is NOT impervious you stupid fucks. Learn some physics. First of all, EM frequencies over a few (tens?) of kHz can go right through this faraday cage.

Also this high voltage might also easily penetrate the chicken wire. The thing is that the path to ground is less resistance to follow the chicken wire then to go past it. If you had a huge grounded copper wire on the other side of the chicken wire it would go right "through" it to the wire in your hand.

In fact it appears the chicken wire doesn't even need to be there, all the arc'ing is to the large metal rods that support the cage. The chicken wire probably isn't doing jack shit.

Finally, it isn't even a faraday cage, because I see hige gaps between the two horizontal support rods.

Stupidest title ever.

Wow, calm down. Let's not be a snobby douche, either. Thanks for the lesson, though.
What would be a better term to use in the title then, in your educated opinion?

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