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Old 4th Jan 2023, 11:06 pm   #405
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Default Re: 6-gang FM stereo tuner heads

Some people suggested that the magnetic induction transformer was actually coupling energy capacitively. So Faraday invented his special shield, which blocks electric fields only to prove that the coupling had to be magnetic.

Unfortunately, some people automatically prefix the word screen with Faraday's name. Maybe they think it makes the screens appear screenier? But in reality from the point of screening radio signals, Faraday screens leak like a seive. It's comparable to prefixing every mention of the word 'Tyre" with the word "flat". But Faraday screen/cage/shield seems to have entered folklore. Lexicographers have their dictionaries change to follow newer usage, but this is science and we are talking specific and defined terms here where we can't let meanings change without trashing knowledge.

Not being grumpy, just trying to defend something we need for accuracy.

David
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