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Old 29-06-2008, 00:53   #9
exfishnz
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Boat: Designing a global explorer (full keel & steel)
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Originally Posted by Alan Wheeler View Post
The safest measure is to place it inside say the oven. Metal casing all around (faraday case) stops the magnetic field from destroying the electronics.
Am going steel hull & house, not 100% sure whether that would help.

On the subject of "Faraday cage principle", wouldn't tinfoil wrapped around electronics be just as good? (have read about sailors putting small electronics in aluminum pots (with the lid sealed)).

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I can just see you now trying to stuff a radome in the oven ;-)
She'd have to be a big oven
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