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Are you prepared for a EMP? How would you survive?
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Well, I have some solar power, enough to run my freezer and lights, radio etc.
I can't find any reliable information on how EMPS's affect solar panels though. I know that there is a diode that I may need to replace, maybe. And it may fry the charge controller. A project on the board for me is to make a faraday cage for the controller and inverter. I have the stuff, I just need to do it.
In the reading I have done, not everything will be fried. . I've read that some areas, depending on their cover, will be shaded. Think of a car under a carport.
I'm looking to build a home at some point. One room will be shielded in aluminum screening, then sheetrocked. This room will house all solar components and the freezer, and serve as storage for other electronics.
Quoting: ITZCOMING I thought things needed to be encased in a special cage in order to be shielded from an EMP attack? THIS is interesting though... Your microwave as a Faraday cage Microwaves work by exciting water molecules in food, translating to an increase in temperature. Microwave ovens use non-ionizing microwave radiation at a frequency of 2.45 GHz (near the range of your cell phone), causing water in the your leftovers to absorb energy. As the water molecules absorb energy, the receive partial charges - a negative charge at one end and a positive charge at the other, causing the molecules to spin constantly. The water molecules start to hit each other, sending kinetic energy out as heat. More at [ link to io9.com] All you need to make a faraday cage is a box lined with common aluminum screening. Overlap the edges. Works well. Also can shield yourself from your smartmeter by placing a large piece of screen on the inside wall of the house where the meter is. Mine is opposite my master bedroom closet, so I just put a 5x8 foot piece of screen on the wall and tacked it up. Had the screening so might as well. A galvanized metal garbage can will work well as a faraday cage thanks - tell how the screen would protect you - I am interested in this.
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