Unchained Preppers
Off Topic/ B.S. => General Off Topic => Topic started by: pkveazey on November 30, 2016, 06:36:21 PM
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http://www.futurescience.com/emp/emp-grounding.html (http://www.futurescience.com/emp/emp-grounding.html)
The above link, if its still up and running, is an in depth resource for Faraday Shielding. Its a bit of overkill, but I thought I'd post it because there have been some discussion concerning EMP damage to electronics.
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Good read pkveazey :pirateThumbUp:
Worth everyone's time to read.
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That was all fairly well over my head, but I think it got some of it.
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EJR914, when you boil it all down, it just means wrap anything that is EMP sensitive in Aluminum foil.
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Large shields that do have conductors penetrating the shield - HUH! Please explain what a Penetrating Conductor is and what it looks like?
I agree with you pkveazey Aluminum Foil is the way to go.
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here are two examples.
1) if you put a radio into a faraday cage to protect it but the antenna is attached to it via a cable to your roof top antenna - that would be a penetrating conductor, the cable running from your shielded radio to the antenna.
2) If you make a 'safe room' shielded from EMP by lining the walls and he floor and the ceiling - you can stack all your stuff in their to keep it safe. if you have a ceiling light hanging down into the room and that light is attached to your house power then that would be a penetrating conductor.
in both cases the antenna cable and the light power cord can conduct EMP into your protected device/space.
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KBOP thanks for the easy to understand explanation. It's one of those "Why didn't I think of that" :facepalm:
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@ JoJo The article was about capacitive coupling and re-radiation. And an interesting idea about having access to a surge suppressor that could handle an EMP - I'de like to see the specs and price on that!
Nerd alert = "i grok electrons" but needed help in picking out a rifle and glass :)
i'm good with electrical/electronic/RF/Digital/Power transmission stuffs.
think of me as a terp.
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Terp? Whatdahail is that? I know twerps, nerds, dorks, dweebs and all those things but not terps?
Nemo
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@Nemo, terp = interpreter/translator :cheers:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terp (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terp)
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So I know a couple gents who do that. Define GROK and expand my brain a fact more.
No worry, I have plenty of room. No fear my brain might explode.
Nemo
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Grok is from an SciFi book i read a few decades ago. Stranger in a Strange Land By R. Heinlein
- in our current conversation, i 'understand well' or "Grok" electrons.
I trust your cranium is still intact :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok)
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I Grok!
Nemo