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by mountainboy 1540 days ago
a cheap consumer RF meter detects "high" levels of RF from 5+ feet away, at least on the 4 or 5 random units I've tried. So the faraday cage doesn't seem to be doing its job in full.
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A "high" from a random RF meter doesn't mean anything. Give me numbers in dBm/MHz.
RF leaks can be pretty directional. So simple tests like this phone test or waving a power meter around aren't terribly sensitive. (But pay attention if you get a test failure!)

There really isn't any substitute for a proper EMC chamber.