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To: Quix
Who can tell us the size of the wire mesh needed to protect from EMP?

There's no one answer on that, unfortunately.

The most powerful pulse from an EMP blast in the ionosphere, the E3 pulse, has a wavelength so long that only devices connected to the mains (wall socket) will be affected. The E1 and E2 pulses have lengths (and therefore frequencies) that depend on the design of the bomb, and the blast's distance from the active Compton effect layer. The altitude of the various layers changes based on the time of day (which is why you can hear distant AM stations at night, but not during the day).

I'd be pretty comfortable with copper or brass mesh with 10 wires or more to the inch.

You have to shield the solar panel's power cable, too, or it becomes an antenna. GROUND IT AT ONLY ONE END, not both.

15 posted on 05/15/2012 10:55:16 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

You seem to have a good degree of knowledge but just to be certain:
You do understand that the wire shielding is very short of what is used for critical equipment. That is generally done with six sided solid steel plate that has been continously welded pin-hole free with wave-guide and baffles at every single penetration.


36 posted on 05/15/2012 12:27:28 PM PDT by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

MUCH THANKS.

GREATLY APPRECIATED.

GOD BE WITH YOU AND THOSE YOU LOVE.


50 posted on 05/15/2012 1:52:45 PM PDT by Quix (Time is short: INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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