Stillpoint ERS EMI/RFI Suppression Cloth - snake oil or valid upgrade?

[firenewt]

Sounds like a viable replacement for my tin foil hat.

[Geek]

Originally posted by firenewt
Sounds like a viable replacement for my tin foil hat.

Bwaaahahahahaha!

Someone finally said what I was thinkin'

[SY]

It's not Stealth materials. I spent several years working for Ben Rich so this is something fairly familiar to me. The DoD restriction nonsense is pure hype and indeed ought to pin the BS meter.

[Richard Ellis]

So this is NOT a RAM material?...or is it a bad copy, as if to latch onto the seeming mystery of the material?
I would think that the real stuff would be impossible to obtain & the true coatings used would be a state secret.
That brings up the point that everyone trying to make a buck would cook up some lame material and asserting its' magical properties.
So who is this Ben Rich that you speak of?
________________________________________Rick...... ....

[SY]

Use the magic of Google.

edit: Or the Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Rich

[Damon Hill]

As a potential RF absorbing material (more or less so at whatever frequency), this Stillpoints paper seems slightly plausible. At the price being asked for it, I haven't been persuaded to try it. RFI and EMI suppression tends to be a blackish art anyway.

I definitely draw a line well before Bybee Quantum Purifiers.

Either can be had (at a price) from Percy Audio, who also stocks perfectly legitimate components.

[adhoc]

So, for shielding components that carry mains current and AC voltage, what would you all recommend I use?

[pinkmouse]

Distance, and twist all supply wiring. If you really want screening, mild steel plate will do, and it doesn't even need to be that thick, 1mm will do.

[neutron7]

Isn't this just anti static cloth?

[Damon Hill]

Nope, absolutely nothing to do with electrostatic fields. It's about electromagnetism.