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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.
Increasing the distance to the source of magnetic field interference is also very effective. The strength of the coupling is inversely proportional to the cube of the distance.