From: David Nebenzahl on
On 2/22/2010 12:35 AM N_Cook spake thus:

> David Nebenzahl <nobody(a)but.us.chickens> wrote in message
> news:4b81d14f$0$2395$822641b3(a)news.adtechcomputers.com...
>
>> Typically what you Brits call "screening" we call "shielding". I think
>> most folks here would refer to that as a shield of some sort (RF,
>> electrostatic, etc.)
>
> So what we call a valve screening can would be a tube shield in the US ?

Eggs-zactly. Just the way you call a "windscreen" what we call a
"windshield".


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From: PeterD on
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:17:26 -0800 (PST), "hr(bob) hofmann(a)att.net"
<hrhofmann(a)att.net> wrote:

>On Feb 21, 6:35�am, "N_Cook" <dive...(a)tcp.co.uk> wrote:
>> Mixer amp
>> With age,humidity or temperature or whatever, the screening card lining the
>> inside of the plastic case can curl up and touch solder and traces on the
>> IEC sub-board, aluminium side to mains voltages. Cut away all around that
>> corner on the rear and side card.
>>
>> The EMX 88S has proper rigid metal work around that IEC area
>
>For us folks on the west side of the Atlantic Ocean, what is a
>screening card?

Shield piece.
From: David Nebenzahl on
On 2/22/2010 6:17 AM PeterD spake thus:

> On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:17:26 -0800 (PST), "hr(bob) hofmann(a)att.net"
> <hrhofmann(a)att.net> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 21, 6:35 am, "N_Cook" <dive...(a)tcp.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Mixer amp
>>> With age,humidity or temperature or whatever, the screening card lining the
>>> inside of the plastic case can curl up and touch solder and traces on the
>>> IEC sub-board, aluminium side to mains voltages. Cut away all around that
>>> corner on the rear and side card.
>>>
>>> The EMX 88S has proper rigid metal work around that IEC area
>>
>> For us folks on the west side of the Atlantic Ocean, what is a
>> screening card?
>
> Shield piece.

Dunno about "piece"; never heard anything like that referred to as such.
Just a "shield" usually suffices.


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