Re:A generation of American men give up on college
by orbifold on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @06:17AM
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That shouldn't happen if the cable is properly shielded, no?
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Re:A generation of American men give up on college
by MereInterest on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:00AM
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Electric fields are easy to shield against with a Faraday cage, but magnetic fields are a royal pain. You can use mu-metal shielding, but that's rather expensive and only reduces the magnetic field. Technically, if you wanted to entirely shield from magnetic fields, you'd need to surround the wire with a superconductor, but that requires liquid nitrogen/helium cooling that is out of the scope of most residential work.
Re:A generation of American men give up on college
by auxym on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @06:58AM
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In practice home LV wiring is rarely shielded, maybe with CAT6 as an exception. Things like speaker wire, doorbells, vacuum control wires, etc are not typically shielded.
Also the shield needs a low impedance return path to be effective.