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Authors: Gary Yantis
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but if it is moved it will stop. It might work! 24/7 SWAT teams protecting your group! Hey, it could happen. But, as I say, you stand a major chance of losing all your survival supplies. I think I would just get news to city hall then fade back into my hidden (I hope) safe area.
Today’s entire high-tech world is controlled by devices each with hundreds to thousands to millions of semiconductors. The total number of semiconductor “junctions” in everything from alarm clocks to car alternators to television sets to cell phones is thought to be a mega-trillion (or more) in number. Just your pocket cell phone with its integrated circuits has many thousands of semiconductor junctions. Why are these junctions so fragile? Because they are often one millionth the width of a human hair! Send anything but the tiniest of electrical voltage and current through that TINY wire and it burns out – permanently.
Like I say, you are now essentially living in the 14 th century! Not even the 19 th century as we suddenly no longer have many of the tools of the 19 th century, the horses and buggies and all that made life run in, say, the year 1870. The author was employed by the contractor to the Atomic Energy Commission (nuclear weapons) the year scientists suddenly took EMP seriously realizing the first explosion would burn out all other incoming missiles! In the 1960’s continuing through today most military electronic equipment is “radiation hardened” including moderate protection from EMP. The junction wires are a bit thicker but they can’t be too thick or a laptop computer would be the size of a boat. So the equipment is super shielded and grounded. Just like walking across a rug on a dry winter day then touching something “grounded” like a lamp. You get “zapped”. It just stings but think of that times one trillion. Radio and TV tower and tall buildings are struck by lightning bolts in most lightning storms. But things like lightning rods, devices like GDT (gas discharge tubes), MOV (metal oxide varistors), ground rods and a bevy of devices that makes for a large industry protects everything from TV stations to gasoline stations to electric power stations to – the list goes on. For electronic equipment itself (like radios) the reason most military radios (and satellites) are so expensive is that they use semiconductors and protection devices meant to protect the equipment from everything but a direct hit of, say, a lightning bolt. What about all the billions of consumer devices? You can pay your electric power company to install gas discharge tubes at your main circuit box partially protecting your house from voltage surges or spikes from lightning (or EMP). Otherwise, you will end up with a house full of blown out electronic devices and even less prone to voltage spike surges devices such as refrigerator and furnace compressors and motors may burn out if your house is struck directly by a lightning bolt. This is not the MOV devices many utilities offer at a high price and install them where the electricity enters your house. If you want gas discharge tubes you may have to hire a contractor and you really need one right at where each device is plugged in as the house wiring after the MOV protection is an antenna and, if the EMP discharge is high enough in voltage even the house wiring is enough to pick up enough electricity for a microsecond to burn out many electric and electronic devices. IF you do call your electric power company, ask if they install gas discharge tubes or if they are (useless) MOV devices.
I recommend Transtector/PolyPhaser www.transtector.com as a manufacturer of quality gas discharge tube protection devices used by many thousands of commercial radio/TV/cell towers, etc. installations but there are other good companies as well. The author prefers to use what is considered to be the high quality of Transtector plus you can learn much on their Web site. Enough to learn how to protect
Today’s entire high-tech world is controlled by devices each with hundreds to thousands to millions of semiconductors. The total number of semiconductor “junctions” in everything from alarm clocks to car alternators to television sets to cell phones is thought to be a mega-trillion (or more) in number. Just your pocket cell phone with its integrated circuits has many thousands of semiconductor junctions. Why are these junctions so fragile? Because they are often one millionth the width of a human hair! Send anything but the tiniest of electrical voltage and current through that TINY wire and it burns out – permanently.
Like I say, you are now essentially living in the 14 th century! Not even the 19 th century as we suddenly no longer have many of the tools of the 19 th century, the horses and buggies and all that made life run in, say, the year 1870. The author was employed by the contractor to the Atomic Energy Commission (nuclear weapons) the year scientists suddenly took EMP seriously realizing the first explosion would burn out all other incoming missiles! In the 1960’s continuing through today most military electronic equipment is “radiation hardened” including moderate protection from EMP. The junction wires are a bit thicker but they can’t be too thick or a laptop computer would be the size of a boat. So the equipment is super shielded and grounded. Just like walking across a rug on a dry winter day then touching something “grounded” like a lamp. You get “zapped”. It just stings but think of that times one trillion. Radio and TV tower and tall buildings are struck by lightning bolts in most lightning storms. But things like lightning rods, devices like GDT (gas discharge tubes), MOV (metal oxide varistors), ground rods and a bevy of devices that makes for a large industry protects everything from TV stations to gasoline stations to electric power stations to – the list goes on. For electronic equipment itself (like radios) the reason most military radios (and satellites) are so expensive is that they use semiconductors and protection devices meant to protect the equipment from everything but a direct hit of, say, a lightning bolt. What about all the billions of consumer devices? You can pay your electric power company to install gas discharge tubes at your main circuit box partially protecting your house from voltage surges or spikes from lightning (or EMP). Otherwise, you will end up with a house full of blown out electronic devices and even less prone to voltage spike surges devices such as refrigerator and furnace compressors and motors may burn out if your house is struck directly by a lightning bolt. This is not the MOV devices many utilities offer at a high price and install them where the electricity enters your house. If you want gas discharge tubes you may have to hire a contractor and you really need one right at where each device is plugged in as the house wiring after the MOV protection is an antenna and, if the EMP discharge is high enough in voltage even the house wiring is enough to pick up enough electricity for a microsecond to burn out many electric and electronic devices. IF you do call your electric power company, ask if they install gas discharge tubes or if they are (useless) MOV devices.
I recommend Transtector/PolyPhaser www.transtector.com as a manufacturer of quality gas discharge tube protection devices used by many thousands of commercial radio/TV/cell towers, etc. installations but there are other good companies as well. The author prefers to use what is considered to be the high quality of Transtector plus you can learn much on their Web site. Enough to learn how to protect
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