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Unread 24-12-2014, 01:51
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Re: Best gyro for frc.

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Originally Posted by ayeckley View Post
Not to bust your chops, but that's true for electric fields -- not so much for magnetic fields. Effective magnetic shielding requires the use of a material with a high magnetic permeability such as Mu-metal (Carpenter Specialty Alloys). Rolled foil copper such as that found on PCBs has little effect.
I wasn't quite sure that I hadn't mixed the two up when I wrote the post. Thanks for calling me out on it