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| NoBonus:
--- Quote from: JustMichael on April 12, 2004, 06:29:26 am ---Photos please!! ;D --- End quote --- I'll get a picture up as soon as I can, but that is not that soon. Maybe this week sometime, I hope. I'll have to borrow a digital camera. |
| Sephroth57:
wow i thought you were talking about real live mice until i read like half your paragraph lol |
| NoBonus:
Sorry about that. I would expect real mice do not care about magnatism, until they get on the excercise wheel and cannot get off of it. NoBonus |
| Inaba:
Ugg... lots of misinformation here. First off, unless it's a really old mouse, or the magnet is like a 1 tesla magnet, the mouse is likely to be unaffected. If it's a ball mouse, and it's a really strong magnet, it might cause some funkiness and/or the ball core might become magnetically charged... however I doubt you'd notice much. The "brains" of the mouse would not be scrambled, unless, as I said, it was a really strong field (Even then, it would have to be ridiculously strong. You won't find magnets that strong short of wrecking yards and MRI machines). Aluminum probably wouldn't do much as far as making an impromptu faraday cage, either. However, a cheap solution to a faraday cage would be to enclose the whole contraption in a chicken wire box. It would be crude and only moderately effective, but it would probably protect the monitor if it was elevated high enough. Alternately, if you wanted to shell out a few more dollars, a fine mesh of copper wire would be spectacular, and would bring your magnetic field down to levels that are probably below the ambient fields you'll find in your house. None of this would be Tempest level shielding, but I seriously doubt anyone needs that for a MAME machine, unless you want to keep the Feds from knowing your playing pirated ROMs :) |
| NoBonus:
Inaba, Thanks for all of the info. I also believe the magnets I am dealing with (a vacuum rotor with the bearings) may only have "temporary" magnets. Do you know how I could demagnatize the temporary magnet? I still have some tests to run to see how much magnetic pull the rotor has (if any), but when I was sawing apart the metal case, almost of all of the shavings stuck to my screwdriver with magnatized tip than the rotor assembly. Additionally, I found a vacuum motor is a fine specimine as it must be able to withstand high heat and low air intake so it is all made of metal, no plastic making this spinner assembly quite sturdy and smooth. NoBonus |
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