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Richard Casady Richard Casady is offline
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Default Lightning Protection questions

On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:49:50 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Keep some portable radio/gps gear in an insulated container.


What you want is a completely closed metal container. The charge will
stay in the walls of the container. They call this a Faraday Cage.

Casady