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Old 07-07-2010, 12:46 PM   #198
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Absolutely right. As Wiki succinctly expresses it:
It has nothing at all to do with grounding.
Harry, you "conveniently" neglected to quote the very next paragraph in that Wiki definition. Not that I'm surprised that you would do such a thing. Tsk tsk.

"If the cage is grounded, the excess charges will go to the ground instead of the outer face, so the inner face and the inner charge will cancel each other out and the rest of the cage would remain neutral."
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