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In Reply to: Furutech carbon fiber receptacle cover? posted by yo2tup on April 26, 2007 at 21:53:41:
Haven't tried the Furu or the Oyaide directly, but have DIYed similucra of both and they work well. So I believe that the Furu design should serve you.2 keys I surmised to these CF type designs:
a) mechanical damping (the base of the plate)
b) RFI damping (the CF part)YOu also need to consider that, there is some advantage in some situations to the metallic cover IF it's NOT ferrous nor magnetic. Both use metallic non-magnetic materials, but it looks like the Oyaide would supply better mechanical damping as it's heavy aluminum. I've experimented with various cover plate materials and find that the less ringy and heavier a plate or base, the better the mechanical damping.
For the RFI damping (look up Al Sekela's posts from last year) part, the CF, we don't know what the optimum thickness is. It appears that Furu uses a thinner slab or cover of CF than the Oyaide, but I cannot honestly tell you which might be better - if either!
My own use has included both a thin layer of CF cloth bonded to a plate and a thick blank (3/8") slab on top of a plate. Both work. It works to use both of them simultaneously, but I cannot vouch for whether it's any better than either single layer.
On my wall I use a nylon plate backed by a double layer of CF cloth and fronted by a slab of CF. On my power strip I use a ceramic cover (box is aluminum)and a thick slab. Have no way of testing what works best between them, but both do improve the situation.
IME, RFI tweaks are cumulative in effect. More the merrier!
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- Well, IME with DIY - bartc 05:42:47 04/27/07 (0)
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