EMP Effects on Vehicles

[Hamradioop]

Devonian emp and lightening strikes are totally different. As to the Car being a Faraday cage well if you earthed it to a copper earth rod and removed the aerial it might be. Faraday cages must be grounded.

[Devonian]

Devonian emp and lightening strikes are totally different. As to the Car being a Faraday cage well if you earthed it to a copper earth rod and removed the aerial it might be. Faraday cages must be grounded.

I appreciate that an EMP and Lightening strike are different beasts, BUT, a lightning strikes can/do generate an EMP in the immediate area, but it does not travel in the same way as that from say a solar flare or nuclear detonation.

Have a read of the following:

http://newsok.com/the-electromagnetic-p ... le/3907531

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromag ... #Lightning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning

[Decaff]

Darn it!! I posted something earlier I'd found, but in the wrong place... sorry everyone, it's a bit long though...

[Hamradioop]

yup, their are at least two threads at the moment on emp here is where Decaf posted a lot of info viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7930&start=30