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All solid state equipment - computer chips, transistors, etc. - can be fried with a very small amount of voltage. Red dots are operating with less than 12 volts, so the circuits would be fried at something around double that. The EMP from a nuclear weapon can cause very high voltages across these circuits and fry them unless they are protected by a Faraday shield. Essentially that means surrounded by a conductor that is not attached to the device.
^ right.
sounds easy in theory.... lol.
really gonna suck for those of ya'll with pacemakers.
speaking of pacemakers, anyone ever want to make a nuclear battery? I dont think you can find radium anymore huh? tritium could work witha bit of imagination.
sounds easy in theory.... lol.
really gonna suck for those of ya'll with pacemakers.
speaking of pacemakers, anyone ever want to make a nuclear battery? I dont think you can find radium anymore huh? tritium could work witha bit of imagination.
no...i dont think that would end well for me or anyone within several miles of me. Plus I just got a new pretty front door recently and the thought of the FBI exploding it off the hinges during the raid on my house inst pleasant.
seeeeeeeeeee thats what i b saying black bird pie just another way to keep the black bird down:1zhelp:
But 3/4 of the men in America will no longer have access to their porn....
You can make a faraday cage out of just about anything with rigid structure. All you have to do is wrap it in foil(more layers=better) and run a ground wire from the foil into the earth. Ideally your ground source would be a copper rod like they use to ground lightning rods. Drive it about 6 or 8 feet under and run it to whatever you want to enclose and protect. Most people also don't realize that EMP waves will bounce off of the earth and back up to the surface. You definitely want to fully encase anything you care about. As far as solar flares go, Nasa used to have an article posted on their website about the 2012 solar maximum but that was back in 09'. I guess they decided that it is more important to keep the GP in the dark about it rather than leave it on the site. Personally, I think if our government sees it coming, they aren't gonna say crap to us about it.
Copper mesh is simpler and easier to work with. As we both have referred, special attention needs to be paid to any "leak" locations when addressing either EMP or RFI concerns.
For those with a need, you can purchase commercially available products that have copper mesh woven into flexible bags. You can even get these bags specifically sized to hold laptops, cell phones, or just about any device you need to put in them. This kind of thing does have its practical side, because think of how much information relevant to your life that is contained on a laptop or external hard drives, and they're a lot easier to carry around than boxes of files, manuals, etc. Heck, all the manuals for my guns I keep as .pdf files on my laptop.
Why not just get a non electronic scope like an ACOG or just a regular riflescope? There is nothing an EMP can do to them.
SHTF like that is really one of the only instances where I would think people would be busting out the battle rifles besides range or hunting. This is why I would never buy an electronic scope like an aimpoint or eotech. Just the chance that an EMP could render them useless is enough for me. The main point for me owning a battle rifle is really bad stuff. If my sight gave up on me during SHTF that would be gay.
You should also remember batteries may become hard to obtain for those electronic sights if SHTF.
Just remember, you never know when we might get hit, so start keeping your laptops in storage now.......
A lot of good those laptops will do when there is no WiFi, no power grid to recharge, etc. Four hours of playing Minecraft when SHTF hardly seems a worthy justification for buying an ESD bag.
A lot of good those laptops will do when there is no WiFi, no power grid to recharge, etc. Four hours of playing Minecraft when SHTF hardly seems a worthy justification for buying an ESD bag.
Sorry, I was sorta being sarcastic.......
Mexican_Hippie
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Y'all crack me up!
Sometimes I wish we'd get nailed with an EMP. No laptop, no Blackberry, it would be a freakin' vacation!
I'd just have to figure out how to keep some ice cold for my drinks with no fridge.
Sometimes I wish we'd get nailed with an EMP. No laptop, no Blackberry, it would be a freakin' vacation!
I'd just have to figure out how to keep some ice cold for my drinks with no fridge.
