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I'm working on a lightning bolt experiment at U of Washington to see how carbon composite materials hold up when hit by lightning. We have as much as a 40 kV 80 kA 50 us arc across a <1cm gap from a copper/tungsten electrode to a plate of carbon composite connected to ground. I know this must put out one heck of an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) and I'm worried about someone walking by with a pacemaker and dropping dead when we fire this thing. I need to characterize the electric field strength of the EMP a few meters away.
Is it a simple matter of putting up a 1 meter dipole connected to a scope and measuring the voltage (E in V/m = V_measured / 1 meter)? That sounds too easy to be right.
Apchar
Is it a simple matter of putting up a 1 meter dipole connected to a scope and measuring the voltage (E in V/m = V_measured / 1 meter)? That sounds too easy to be right.
Apchar