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Lately i've been playing around with
an interesting shielding technique.
Uh... two standard rectangular magnets...
The magnetic fields would go...
roughly like this,
if you put them in close proximity together.
Now, according to
John Bedini,
if you run the north poles
flush against each other
it creates this odd pattern. More like this.
Now to demonstrate that, what I've got is
two rectangular magnets
that I've basically just tapped together with electrical tape.
These normally would look like this.
Now by taping the north pole to the north,
it gives you an interesting effect.
This side of the magnet will
pick up this metal ball,
and this side does not.
It literally rolls right off.
But the seam, it will
stick to at any spot.
The interesting thing, if you take this uh...
two of these with out the electrical tape,
the strength of this
is weaker
in the area in the center.
It's hard to show this on camera, but
try it for yourself and you'll see.
It actually has a stronger magnetic field,
in the area where these two magnets meet,
with the north poles facing each other
than it does in the
area that would normally be the strongest pole here.
And it totally shuts out the south pole on one side of the magnets.
You'll still get a south on the other side.
But you can block that out
with a little magnetic shielding.
You still get a strong magnetic north through the seam right here.
See this totally,
shuts out the south pole on the other side,
as well as through the shielded area.
So you're only reading a north
right through the center line,
where the two north poles meet.
Now that's actually a rare effect,
because i've tried this with several of these magnets, and
most of the time you're still going to get a south pole...
on both sides here.
I'm guessing that's because when they manufacture these they are not always
the
highest quality.
So something in this is probably just a little bit different
than these. Either way though,
if you shield both
sides...
it blocks out the south pole,
and you only end up with the north.
Just something interesting that
I've been playing around with.