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EMP attack would wipe out hundreds of millions of Americans
Unto the Breach ^ | 12 Feb 2009

Posted on 02/13/2009 7:30:24 AM PST by FatMax

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To: FatMax

It might wipe out my microwave oven. Good think my shotgun isn’t electronic.

It would wipe out my bank’s computers, however, and maybe the backups. Hard to say.


101 posted on 02/18/2009 9:32:07 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: jurroppi1
No just pulsed power testing
102 posted on 02/18/2009 10:14:09 AM PST by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: McGruff
EMP attack would wipe out hundreds of millions of Americans electrical devices

How un-PC of you - the accepted vernacular is Electrical-Americans...we have to be all-inclusive, doncha know. :)

103 posted on 02/18/2009 10:29:49 AM PST by Andonius_99 (There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
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To: CougarGA7

nifty... I was just in a discussion about something similar last week.

An engineer and I put together (designed and built) a pulse generator that delivers a 50A pulse over 5mS (actually it’s a variable output from 5-50 Amps). We use it to test IGBTs, RGTs, SCRs, and AGTs.


104 posted on 02/18/2009 11:01:33 AM PST by jurroppi1
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To: jurroppi1

Very cool. So your basically pulsing a variac. What are you using for controls?


105 posted on 02/18/2009 12:09:59 PM PST by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: FatMax

I think you need a chicken wire hat for this one. Really! Maybe a smaller mesh. So who’s the expert.


106 posted on 02/18/2009 12:13:36 PM PST by ThomasThomas ( Accept it, there is no except after in math.)
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copper mesh would probably work, but you’d need a ground wire stringer so that the energy would travel to earth ground...

LOL!


107 posted on 02/18/2009 2:29:30 PM PST by jurroppi1
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