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Re: [TowerTalk] Fiberglass Enclosure

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fiberglass Enclosure
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:00:00 -0700
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Hoffman-style enclosures are widely available in the electrical supply chain in a wide variety of sizes, styles, and materials.  They can be found online, and I found a particularly useful one at my local electrical supply store that I used to house eight lightning arrestors.  The one I chose came with a steel backplate, to which I mounted the arrestors, and which I bonded to my ground system.

FWIW -- for most applications of these enclosures, shielding is not required, so the presence of steel is structural rather than electrical. AND -- for shielding to WORK, it must be continuous, AND all penetrations of the enclosure must be bonded to it at the point of penetration. The gap presented by an insulating weatherproof gasket defeats shielding because it interrupts the shielding and forms a slot antenna.

73, Jim K9YC

On 8/12/2018 1:04 PM, kstover@ac0h.net wrote:
These are epoxy powder coated steel not fiberglass.

http://www.kf7p.com/KF7P/JunctionsBoxes.html


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