Tweakers' Asylum

Tweaks for systems, rooms and Do It Yourself (DIY) help. FAQ.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

Anyone tried EMI tape on Wallplates?

Posted by linyanti on October 12, 2010 at 10:00:14:
I was considering this tweak and wanted to know if anyone had tried it yet. I searched the forum and did not find it.

I was going to take an aluminum or 302 stainless steel (the type of stainless steel without iron and is not magnetic) duplex outlet wallplate and then put EMI shielding tape on it. The tape adhesive is electrically conductive so that the metal of the EMI tape would be conducted to the metal wallplate and then the wallplate would be conducted to the duplex outlet through the metal wallplate mounting screw. Consequently, it seems that it should be safely grounded. Of course, the openings of the wallplate for the outlets and the mounting screw would not be covered.

Here are some of the 3M EMI Shielding Foil Tapes that have conductive adhesive:
All of the shielding effectiveness is for far field 30 MHz to 1 GHz.
Copper Foil Tape 508SN, 50dB to 60dB
Aluminum Foil Tape 1170, 60dB to 75dB
Copper Foil Tape 1181, 60dB to 80dB
Tin-Plated Copper Foil Tape 1183, 70db to 85dB

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/AdhesivesForElectronics/Home/Products/EMIEMC/ShieldingFoilTapes/

Is this kooky or might it work for less than some of the audio wall plates sell for? Thanks for any thoughts