RF shielding against plasma
I rearranged "the furniture" in my machine shop lately. I moved a mill with Sony DRO approximately 15 to 20 feet closer to the welding room. Now, I notice whenever someone uses the plasma cutting outfit in the welding area, that it blows the AC line fuse into the Sony.
Also, a Woods VFD that is located about 10 feet from the welding room, will display a fault code spurred by the use of the plasma torch.
So, obviously the plasma is bad to have near electronic stuff. So I'm wondering how effective it would be to line the intervening wall of the welding room with steel "siding" to act as an RF shield? Will the interference just diffract around the panel, or go right on through it anyways?
I toured a cycltron once, and they had the control room walls lined with copper sheath for RF control. Does copper have special properties over steel paneling?
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