TIP: Test A Faraday Gage

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[00:00:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Hello everyone out there in Internet and radio land.

[00:00:11] [SPEAKER_00]: This is Dave Jones, the head of the TV.

[00:00:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Boy, I have a really FM voice going on here.

[00:00:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what's going on this morning.

[00:00:18] [SPEAKER_00]: It's very early.

[00:00:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm up at the Jones Homes that are very, very early.

[00:00:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Some reason I woke up and I wanted to have for like,

[00:00:26] [SPEAKER_00]: could not sleep, so I'm getting ready to go to school.

[00:00:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And I thought I'd do a proper tip of the day.

[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_00]: The other day I did how to detect fall out without a radiac meter.

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, there is also plans online that you can build a,

[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_00]: like a do-simitor out of a mason jar.

[00:00:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It's from back in the 1950s, but it still works.

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Physics haven't changed.

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So if you want to Google that, you can Google that.

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And it detects ionizing radiation, which is exactly what

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_00]: a do-simitor detects.

[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_00]: So you can detect, you won't.

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think you'd be able to detect how much radiation,

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_00]: but you'll be able to detect if you're getting radiation.

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's not the tip, though.

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I get off on too many tips here.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_00]: You get an extra tips today.

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: The tip today is what to put in your Faraday cage.

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, in my presentations I tell you how to build a Faraday cage out of a garbage can.

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_00]: A galvanized steel garbage can.

[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So Faraday cage has to be a conductive material

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_00]: and inside insulating material.

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so a galvanized steel can with a foam rubber

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_00]: on the inside.

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and then sealed up with metal duct tape.

[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the metal duct tape three or four inches

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_00]: so you get a good overlap over the seals inside and out.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And the tip, well here's a tip.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_00]: How do you test your Faraday cage?

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_00]: How do you test that?

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_00]: How do you know if it's going to work?

[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Take an AM radio.

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Tune it, tune it to us, a talk radio station.

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Put it in the can, seal it up like you would if all your stuff was in there.

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And if it goes to static,

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_00]: you know that it's not picking up a signal.

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_00]: That is a rough way to test your Faraday cage

[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_00]: without getting thousands of dollars worth of equipment,

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_00]: but it will work.

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, know that radio is designed to pick up a specific frequency

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_00]: and they're broadcasting constant and steady

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_00]: at a certain wattage in your area.

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_00]: So it will protect against an EMP.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's how you know if you got a good Faraday cage.

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_00]: There's no holes.

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's my tip.

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll do another tip on what to put in because this tip is getting too long.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It's three and a half minutes already.

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I like to try and keep them around two minutes,

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_00]: but that is the tip on how to test your Faraday cage.

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Take care and prep on.