I got news for ya. The Carrington event fried wires. How many wires run that truck over there? Whole lot i bet, Bubba. Your starter, your alternator, your plug wires, coils ETC. All fried. Get your self an old tractor with some spare parts in a cage.
I contacted EMP Shield, and asked one question. The answer to tha question was...no, we have never installed our device on a vehicle and tested it with an EMP generator. Wouldn't you think that would be the first thing they would do, and use the videos of the tests to increase their sales? Without testing, this thing is pie in the sky.
Thanks for saying that. It seemed like the only thing that would work is an actual cage. Your comment was enough for me to not look into this any further. It looks like the snake oil gimmick "plug this box into your cigarette lighter port. It gives you much better gas mileage." It should be illegal to sell that shit, and blatantly lie about it. It's like a placebo box, but worse. Because placebos somehow benefit a few people.
I worked for a company briefly that specializes in EMP protection for the military. And from what the electric engineer said was that the more metal the EMP signal has to travel the less dangerous it becomes to the electronics and that even some modern vehicles would be ok even after an EMP attack it just depends on how much electronics the car has for example vehicles model years 96 and below would probably survive with minimal damage but the newer ones would be screwed.
Yeah I would think so too but I think he was meant later 90’s in general when explaining it. I would even think there would be a few 2001- 2004 that would possibly make it too.
@@mcqtomm the whole point is less electronics. It's not like there's a finite year where the car would be fine. Points and condenser could be fried, it's less likely but possible. The more electronics you have the higher the chance a capacitor gets blown. Tough part is the EMP actually hits the wires, if the wires are shielded, the wrong length, etc, the car will survive. Odds are the rebound will blow the hardware through the wiring regardless of shielding. Keep spare parts.
@@jtdubi3 It's not as clear as all of that. Lightning passes through the car 99.99% of the time. The car will start and keep going. We're talking about an EMP and frankly we just don't know. The EMP is going to have a magnetic wave bouncing all over, if it energizes the car and goes to ground you're fine, if it hits the wiring of the car all bets are off.
I used to build EMP shielded electronics enclosures for Apache helicopters and other military equipment when I worked for an aerospace machine shop. Basically they were micro electronics totally enclosed in alloy boxes with total inner/outer gold plating. There were a lot of other stuff that made it a total package that worked.
@hilarydunaway4807 sadly wouldn't make a difference at all. You need to have 3 to 7 pharaday cages inorder to protect your vehicle. But definitely doable in the shop/ building your talking about.
@@hilarydunaway4807 it would be really shitty to spend all that money and time emp proofing a garage only to have the emp go off while out driving and be screwed
@@robinstewart6510 Those devices are robust enough & wouldn't be affected by an EMP. Anything that has a microprocessor is what will be rendered useless
@@Eric2300jeep .. You assume those devices are robust enough. You have no evidence or testing to say one way or the other when it comes to your vehicle. At the same time, most electronics in modern vehicles are fairly well shielded/isolated. They have to be to withstand lightning, electrical shorts, and similar occurrences. In the end, it's all a gamble.
Gentlemen, it’s 2023 and faraday cages have come along way. They now have faraday cage fabric that you can put up like a tent, they’ve got bags, and they even have faraday blankets. The easiest and best way to EMP proof your car/truck/bug out vehicle is to buy the faraday cage fabric and put it around your vehicle target points on top of putting the fabric as insulation in your garage. My uncle is not a prepper, but he went through a stage where he thought he needed to have some supplies on hand. he has some extra money and I was the first person in my family to go to college, falling in love with science. We built in his shop where he has his hunting/bug out area/man cave a EMP proof area. If you have the resources and the space, I would highly recommend that you build an EM proof area and leave all of your stuff in there so you know without a doubt that that area is protected. Whether you have a spare vehicle even if it’s a $500 vehicle or whatever you have out rigged as your battlewagon or hunting vehicle that you build a standalone garage/shop type area and put the EMP fabric. Now to reinforce if you want super peace of mind you can build into your shop a real faraday cage, then put the EMP blanket around the equipment. That is the most sensitive. So you’re doubling up you have all your sensitive electronics let’s say in a safe or whatever you can double up the EMP blanket over that with the faraday cage built around your shop and you have created a hard point that nothings going to get through that. I would just recommend doing that because anybody can make a faraday cage. It’s not that expensive and takes very little research on RUclips to Make.
Do you have videos you put together showing the set-up you built? It might help us all get our creative juices flowing. I had a thought about trying to make the standard metal storge cabinets you can buy from big box stores into faraday cages but I'm a bit fuzzy on where I'd have to grind down to bare metal and how I'd seal cracks, hinges, etc
A Faraday cage would not work by wrapping it around components. If your garage is a real Faraday cage then the tyres are rubber and the floor is not conductive so the car will be isolated from any current so no need to wrap anything further. The emp will travel through any exposed cables though even if you wrap components in anti emp fabric. Such as a battery charger connected to the car. The problem with this device is it might create a ground loop. It might work if the ground was something other than the car. I have protected micro electronics against emp from high frequency welders and it's not easy, even though the emp is not as strong as it would be if there was an emp attack. If you want to wrap you components up you will have to disconnect all the cables aswell. Any cable outside a Faraday cage that comes in will allow excessive current inside the cage and destroy any electronics it meets unless that cable is also fitted with a emp suppresion system..
Remember the scene from War of the Worlds with Tom cruise where he drives into a mob with his minivan? That's exactly what will happen now that you're the 1 guy with a working vehicle. Besides that fuel pumps wont work either. Unless your up in the mountains by yourself vehicles will be dangerous, they'll give away your position and attract unwanted attention. Best bet is to have a good mtn bike or horse.
Ever play the game Day Z? One of the reasons it's so hard to have a car in that game is because a) getting spare wheels is a huge pain in the ass. B) gas is abundant but the cans to carry them are few and far between. And most importantly c) other players hear the car and immediately try to kill you for it. And while sitting in a car you are exposed as your vital spots are literally behind a square of glass that is easy to aim at. So yeah you make a good point. I try to stay on foot and in the trees
@MEDIC MIKE yes but they'll draw less attention plus they don't need fuel. That car will eventually be a paperweight, as long as you can keep calories going in you can ride the bike for a long time.
The key to this unit is that in reacts extremely fast less than one billionth of one second. So it reacts quick enough to protect. No devices before could react soon enough to protect and the previous solution was burned out after one event. A second event meant no protection. The our military is converting.
I doubt this is going to do anything against a powerful EMP. The device itself will probably be fried too. Also usually only devices which are already powered are vulnerable to an EMP. So if the car isn't already on it will probably be ok. That's why satellites are powered down when passing through solar storms.
Thank you for this video. Once I'm walking and able to use the left side of my body again and get fully recovered from the severe stroke that I had my wife and I am planning on doing the off grid homestead prepper lifestyle. This is a new dynamic that we now don't have to worry about. Thanks again
If you've had the mRNA vax then chances are you may wanna remove the excess Spike Proteins from your system with the Brom/Ac regiment (and Nattokinase if you're not on a blood thinner). The mRNA vax is causing cancer, clots, strokes and heart disease by excess storage of the spike Proteins. Brom/Ac removes the spike Proteins.
Retired Electrical Engineer here. I’ve been trained, then successfully designed, tested and fielded EMP resistant equipment. I’m calling total BS. Any engineer who has worked on EMP resistance gear can tell by just looking at the box you’re holding it will not do what you claim. Don’t waste your money on this box.
@@dmedlin8118 Don't forget to add an insulator between your device and your cookie tins or aluminum foil. I built a faraday cage from a metal trash can. Sealed all the gaps & lined it with cardboard box material to insulate the items inside from touching the metal walls. The surge will hit the metal of the can & zip around it without going within it (how Tesla used to sit inside a Faraday cage while lightning went off around him just inches away).
The EMP Commission's 2008 report noted above is one of the few published studies that specifically addresses the effects of an electromagnetic pulse on both cars and trucks, in particular with an eye on whether the pulses would destroy the low-voltage electronics prevalent in then-modern vehicles. Pry, one of the authors of the report, said that no other report or study on an electromagnetic pulse's effects actually subjected cars to pulses and he's not aware of any similar study since then. As noted in the report: "We tested a sample of 37 cars in an EMP simulation laboratory, with automobile vintages ranging from 1986 through 2002. Automobiles of these vintages include extensive electronics and represent a significant fraction of automobiles on the road today. The testing was conducted by exposing running and nonrunning automobiles to sequentially increasing EMP field intensities. If anomalous response (either temporary or permanent) was observed, the testing of that particular automobile was stopped. If no anomalous response was observed, the testing was continued up to the field intensity limits of the simulation capability (approximately 50 kV/m). "Automobiles were subjected to EMP environments under both engine turned off and engine turned on conditions. No effects were subsequently observed in those automobiles that were not turned on during EMP exposure. The most serious effect observed on running automobiles was that the motors in three cars stopped at field strengths of approximately 30 kV/m or above. In an actual EMP exposure, these vehicles would glide to a stop and require the driver to restart them. Electronics in the dashboard of one automobile were damaged and required repair. Other effects were relatively minor. Twenty-five automobiles exhibited malfunctions that could be considered only a nuisance (e.g., blinking dashboard lights) and did not require driver intervention to correct. Eight of the 37 cars tested did not exhibit any anomalous response."
Early cars caused EMP interference with TVs and radios of the time. Cars produce EMP fields and are heavily shielded to prevent them from causing problems for other devices. As they are so shielded to prevent emissions they are also pretty well protected from them.
This is a very complex topic. More than likely your vehicle will survive a solar flare 'carrington event' and maybe even an emp. Depends where you are. EV's are another issue. If they are plugged in getting charged when it hits...done. But most of those chips in your car don't have a damn thing to do with whether your car will run or not. In fact, pick the ones that do, and buy a replacement and put it in a faraday bag. Once the last nuke has gone off, and most of the world is destroyed you can put it in and go for a drive. The issue is the grid. EMP's....well, if nukes are being set off....the problems are too numerous to even speak of or list or predict. The consequences are literally immeasurable. There is nothing more dangerous than a false sense of security.
Do you know what the best way to find out which chips, relays, etc. are essential for a vehicle to run. Still planning on getting one of these Shields, but the electronics in my '97 Wrangler have been on my mind. I do all the work on it and full half of the parts I've had to replace were relays, sensors, etc.
@@ResilienceOnPurposeive got a 97 Wrangler and been wondering the same thing. If u ever get any good answers as to what components u need to faraday up could you share please? Thanks in advance
Just make sure you’re also hauling a clean, unused gas can, a HAND pump bulb-style siphon hose, and a big Phillips screwdriver (to pop open gasoline caps on those other cars that didn’t buy the device) so you can keep on going-and-going-and-going (like the Energizer Buggy)!
And keep a good supply of octane booster on hand for petrol motors. It takes roughly 2-4 weeks for ethanol to settle out of modern fuel and become like a sludge, so any fuel you siphon past that will become worse and worse until it literally ruins your petrol engine due to pre-ignition. If you are running a diesel then you'll be fine. You can run old low octane petrol in a 50-50 ratio with used motor oil out of the oil pans of cars and as long as you filter the motor oil it'll run fine through a diesel motor without doing damage. It won't run as well as actual diesel or biodiesel, but in a SHTF scenario any kind of running is as good as gold.
After studying CME's such as the Carrington event in 1859 and EMP Starfish Prime in 1962, I'm very skeptical that it would perform as advertised. It would be difficult to accurately simulate these type of events in a lab.
It's a get the money now and there's nothing it's going to do to help.The spike is going to absorb into every metal terminal tht it can find in every space and will be catching many appliances on fire
It is the OBDII vehicles that have been around since 1996 that have EEPROM chips that can be electronically flashed, which an EMP burst could flash one of these chips that have to be worried about. OBDI vehicles from 1988 to 1995 have EPROM chips that have hardwired, or burned in, set of instructions that would not be effected by an EMP blast.
Great source of information. If this does in fact work, and you can roll out, be mindful of people that will do anything to take what you have. Stock up on guns and ammo so you at least have a fighting chance on you egress out of town.
Working with some MI Army Natl Guard folks earlier this year, got to talking and they showed us...to their knowledge, DOD has had these very devices installed in their vehicles. Shows us how easily they install too so I bought one for the truck when they were doing their ~$100 off promos. Hoping never have to test it. Also suggest grinding paint off any metal surface thoroughly where the ground wire attaches.
@@salli8324 do you know why your car tires are black? The rubber is impregnated with carbon, a fabulous conductor of electricity. An early test of rubber tires almost killed a toll booth worker and the driver when they passed the coins over due to the static electric charge built up from the rolling tires. Tires are great conductors of electricity. Feel free to do your homework.
Turn your garage into a faraday cage and keep an old car in there. Carry a bicycle with you in your everyday vehicle so at least you don’t have to walk home. That’s my suggestion.
I just bought a mechanism online that allows you to time travel. It has a headband with a positive and negative charge and a dial for the time. You just plug it in after you put on the headband, you get to see what your life looks like in the future..
THIS IS PERFECT!! WHY, Because it has never been truly tested. If a lot of people buy it, they make a lot of money now. IF an EMP does happen and it DOESN'T work, nobody will be able to call/text/go to them to ask for their money back! PERFECT!! LOL For all we know, it is a box with a 12 volt LED an a label and nothing more.
I am skeptical about a box of tricks that'll work as an EM shield, the best shield for your vehicle would be to ground the metal body to the ground thus making a faraday shield for the sensitive electronics.
@@mibd7812 Essentially yes. Your vehicle is basically a metal box aka a faraday cage. Electricity follows the path of least resistance and so grounding your vehicle the electrical pulse would conduct through the metal panels and frame and then out through the grounding wire and tires (although rubber they have carbon added to conduct static so you don't get a shock after driving)
To Protect you vehicle from an EMP event, you would have to cover all wiring and ECM module with wire mesh or a complete covering of metallic foil to prevent EMP from generating current in the wiring which would overload the ECM module (brain box). Many of the wires coming from the ECM carry very small currents and voltages going to sensors and ignition components. All your wiring will act like an antenna, charging the wires far above the voltages the ECM module can handle and will burn it out. Many of these devices sold for EMP protection contain a device on each wire lead called a MOV ( metal oxide varistor). These devices work by shorting an overvoltage condition for a short time but often times the MOV will be destroyed in the process or retain a residual resistance after shunting an overvoltage which would affect performance of the ECM module to run the vehicle so it's probable that this device would have to be removed after a protection event. I am an electrical engineer so i have had experience with MOVs and seen what they do when overload conditions exist. Each MOV in this device should be fused in case they short out after clamping the higher voltage, some MOVs will actually destroy themselves after clamping high voltages or the cicuit board traces of the MOV module will burn out trying to hold massive currents when the MOV clamps the voltage spike. Just FYI.
They make a canvas cloth that has steel mesh incorporated throughout the material. It's pretty expensive and comes in 59 inch wide rolls. You can sew or glue it together for a "tarp" that will cover your vehicle and the ground around it.
What if you ran like 4 - 0 GA ground wires from like your negative battery cable to the earth, or from like a chassis ground to the earth, or maybe at all 4 corners of the car? Would that possibly be able to give a path of least resistance to the emp? So maybe when you park, you just get out and ground, at home you could put a quick connector of some kind on there. Obviously when your driving your screwed but what ya gonna do. As I wrote that question, I realize I may be way off the mark here but hopefully someone will explain it to me.
@@ChefBoyarDEEZ that would make your vehicle wiring act even more like an antenna and still wouldn't protect the ECM or Traction Control unit from getting spiked. Covering the car with a faraday cage( screen wire basically) would provide some measure of protection but remember, a magnetic field that strong would go through screen wire also. Imagine throwing a rock in a pond, the waves created from the force of the rock world make waves and those waves are close to how you would visualize magnetic waves from an antenna pulse but more closely imagine a doughnut shape growing bigger as it travels away from the EMP source and an EMP pulse from an atomic bomb would be like an asteroid hitting the pond at 100, 000 mph for comparison. You could just keep you vehicle in a metal storage building, completely enclosed, even the floor too so as to redirect the magnetic wave. The metal building would create a bubble around whatever is inside it. The building itself would get very hot due to the currents developed in the metal but this would absorb the pulse mostly. The building would need to be made of ferrous metal like steel to most effective and all panels would have to be bonded to each other very well. I used to work on RFI (radio frequency interference) shield rooms for testing electrical power cables at up to 100, 000 volts at 20 amps and the rooms were covered inside and out with sheet metal that was soldered at every joint and the whole room (20ft x 20ft) had ground rods at each corner going 20 ft into the earth. There was no cell or radio service when you shut the doors.
EMP will fry the circuits immediately and having some wires to a battery will not stop that. Think of it this way, if you shuffle your feet on carpet, and then touch a light switch on the wall, you will experience the shock before the surge can get to the power panel and have it trip the main if it was that sensitive. The damage has already been done at the switch. Same with a vehicle CPU. The charge in the atmosphere will zap everything equally It would be a matter of chance that the charge in the atmosphere tickles and trips the EMP protector before the car circuitry. If it fails, how are you going to get your money back?
That’s an interesting analogy. A problem I see with the comparison between the two is the difference of how electrons move in a static DC environment (rug example) and an AC (EMP) environment. As another poster mentioned, it’s not easy to model these complex EMP events. USA and Russia both performed several simulations decades ago and that’s the data tables scientists still use to this day. We understand them in mostly theoretical (circa 1960’s) terms- long before our world became dependent on microchips. Frequency, exact duration and distance from any EMP will play the most critical roles whether or not our vehicles will be able to start afterwards.
Very informative video! One of the few that had their info instead of just foggy ideas about EMP's. It still doesn't solve the problem of the inherent complexity of modern vehicles, EMP or not, but one of these days I'll be getting one for my jeep, one for my home, and hopefully they make one suitable for a motorcycle by now.
Ya man, electric bicycles with hub motors can easily be recharged with solar, and still be pedaled if necessary, and they can be used to generate electricity, and the battery can power and charge many different things , imagine being were it's cold and using the bike battery with a DC to DC converter to produce 12v to power an electric blanket, and use a few solar panels to charge during the day . Charge your phone and flashlight with a USB on the bike. 👍🤪👽📡🧟🛰️🏍️🛰️
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Great explanation! I like to think of electricity as a fluid in pipes. It has it's flow and pressure but if you rank up the pressure, the valve and sockets will start to leak and break!
Well, my friend, I don't have a vehicle, don't drive, so don't need this device, but you sold me on it, if things ever change. Your enthusiasm is obvious and refreshing and your accent is a delight to listen to, as is mine,(Scottish) I'm told. I may have viewed one of your vids in the past, I'm not sure, but we appear to be on the same wavelength, from my quick glance at your channel, so you've earned yourself a new subscriber.
I'm not a prepper by any means but I've always said if I was going to prep for anything it would be for an EMP. When I'm driving home from work I frequently look at my GPS and say if an EMP struck right now how long would it take me to walk home. Yeah I'd like to protect myself from that as I work 35 miles from home.
When I was younger I always carried my skateboard in my car. I never knew when my car would break down. This was before cheap cell phones. I once skated 10 miles home.
@@robpolaris7272 I've lost count of the times I've traipsed over ten, a few times twenty, miles, having gotten a date home and missed the last train or bus myself. A skateboard would have been fun.
I suggest you better have some maps to n a compass cause my understanding is that GPS won't work either n maybe even the compass will be useless. And a big out bag to because I ain't walking no highways when that happens.
I have looked high and low, and have not been able to find a video of an EMP Shield equipped vehicle tested by running it through an EMP generator. Show me a few of those, provided by an independent entity, and I'll buy one. One would think that if the thing worked, there'd be videos of a test like that all over the place.
Back pre 9/11 I was working for a contractor we were tasked with military EMP testing had multiple vics, everything from a 1943 jeep, mid 50's WM300, mid 60's chevy 1/2 and 3/4 C series, military humvees emp shielded, as well as older/newer dueces/M935 series 5 tons. So they would do the testing in evening. 1/2 the shielded mil vics survived, all the older vics survived, our rental suburban went max smoke, I often wonder what hertz mechanics wondered when the thing was dragged back. Best EMP proof is Mil or no critical components. on my 71 W200 I have a grounding point where I park and clip it in. Same for my 89 F250 IDI. On my 71 I have the old points distributer and coil in a grounded 50 cal can, Also a spare HEI unit and voltage regulators/starter relay. this was a long time a go but I think the best deal is a separate ground rod. But this new technology may be cool.
@@deepbludude4697 what is MIL? And would it take any special precautions to ground a modern vehicle, or just connect it to a solid ground rod? What would happen to a vehicle if the battery was already disconnected during the emp?
@@bitcoinsmash1650 MIL -Military refering to the milspec shielding... I pulled the trigger on one of these, I have a 96 powerstroke diesel shit tons of component's/computers to buy all the spares would have broke me so I spent 350 bucks on this IDK if it will work, but if it does then ill have a big ass 4x4 boxtruck to endtime around in. and I still ground the trucks when parked.
@@deepbludude4697 Do you basically just have a stake in the ground with a wire that you connect somewhere on your truck’s frame? My truck has tons of at risk components and my electrical know how is currently limited to wiring a sound system.
Usaf built a huge emp test bed in New Mexico, big enough to test a B52 on it, after decades of testing everything that moves they had enough data collected to be able to emp proof every design to follow, they shut it down in late 80's or 90's as to generate the field took an Insane amount of electricity.
I am very skeptical of this. If you hook this to your battery the battery wires are also hooked up. The emp charge will still follow all the wires so it would still fry everything. The only way I could see this working is if you actually ran your battery wires through it before they powered the rest of the vehicle.
it has nothing to do with the battery. An EMP pulse will affect anything that is not shielded. This phony little plastic box will not protect anything. Not even a car radio. This is a scam.
@Ron Keeley what you say makes sense to me. So I am having a difficult time believing this EMP protection device would work.... just don't know what to do
Problem is, in the event of an EMP and it doesn't work, how you gonna call customer service? lol, Cool vid man, I didn't know this stuff existed. Need to protect the Harley!!!
It's painful to listen to him try to explain this. Here, let me try. A radio transmitter (normally) transmits enough power in a narrow frequency band that a signal (radio program, TV show, radio control, etc) for an antenna to receive a small amount of current - enough for purpose of the signal (the same whether its a radio broadcast, cell phone signal, garage door opener, over the air TV, whatever). An EMP is somewhat similar to a radio transmitter, except instead of a narrow band, it transmits on an extremely wide range of frequencies. Lightning is an example of this - if you've ever been listening to radio during a lightning storm and heard interference - this is a small EMP, and it will interfere briefly with all radio frequencies (so no matter where your radio is tuned, for that brief spurt, the signal from the lightning is stronger). A Nuclear bomb EMP works like that only it is 10's of thousands of times stronger - so instead of making a blip of static, the interference will damage the receiver. The signal is so strong, that it doesn't actually even need an antenna to do this - every piece of metal (think wire - each wire in a circuit) will act as an antenna and pick up this pulse which will then travel along the wire, seeking an electrical ground and burning out all the electrical components it travels through along the way. Since every piece of wiring acts an an antenna, the electronic doesn't have to be a receiver (it could be a computer, or your car's electrical system) - and it doesn't even have to be turned on. In the Navy, the radios I worked on all had components strategically placed in them to divert damaging high voltage pulses to ground. Another approach to this would be to make what's called a Faraday cage (basically a big metal mesh box that's connected to ground), and put your sensitive electronics inside it. I'm skeptical about this EMP shield. I think at best, it might protect the car's computer, but there may be other components that would prevent a car from being useful (think electrical fuel pump, all the fuses (for sure), probably even all of the lights would be burned out by an EMP).
Kind of like building nuke bomb shelters & offering a huge money back guarantee for them. If the event happens and the national infrastructure crashes (or fries), I think people will have much more to worry about.
It was kind of funny to read there ad on Amazon stating if it doesn't work there's a $25,000 insurance policy 🤣🤣....are you going to wire me that money?
Good explanation! I remember seeing a youtube video demonstrating how a microwave oven interferes with wifi because they are both at the same 2.4ghz frequency.
If emp strikes there's no grid for fuel anyway, not to mention this gadget would almost certainly not work as you would need a faraday cage around your entire vehicle that is grounded, especially for anything as powerful as a nuke. Any transistor exposed is fried on contact
I agree. But why the hell would the western world going green? Arguments aside with climate change, we are set us up catastrophic failure like back to stone age. We as a society is so dependent on electricity/technology that 90% would die in just one year!!!
sounds like the sort of thing you could deploy from a cherry picker mounted in the bed of your truck. couple rolls of wired up chain link on hydraulics
I'm a little skeptical about an EMP event affecting shielded condutive material (i.e., wires and circuits made of aluminum, copper, silver, gold, and so forth). Exposed conductive materials (i.e., wires and circuits) are another matter and may pick up the free-floating electrons. But so would our bodies, which are less conductive. It's important to note, however, that an EMP event is not believed to be harmful to humans. Furthermore, when a cardiologist was asked about the effects of an EMP event on a peacemaker, for example, the doctor stated that the pacemaker would most likely remain unaffected because it's shielded. The same would be true for the wires and circuit boards in a vehicle because they, too, are shielded and are designed to work in rather harsh conditions of heat, cold, and moisture.
Better than my idea 😅 i have a bunch of 4’x8’ lead sheets from work because we do lead lined drywall in hospital xray rooms and when ever we have left over I always peel the lead off and take it. I was thinking about wrapping my truck’s computer system in lead and praying that would work. But i have no science to back up my idea lol
Probably wouldn't work. The EMP also strikes the wiring and the wiring will lead the EMP to the computer. Better to take the lead lined sheetrock and line your garage with it.
I'm skeptical. The black and the green wires both connect to the same circuit, since the battery negative, in every car, connects to the body and chassis. There is no electrical connection to the earth, unless you add some kind of strap that drags on the ground.
I agree, the chassis ground and the negative terminal of the battery are the same electrical points, without the addition of a earth ground there's no way this is going to dissipate any electrical charge to this vehicle. If it were the 18 gauge wires would probably fry too.
@@tricianm6213 I didn’t say I would I’m just saying that is the only way you would keep it if you have the only running car. People would kill you for it
@@tricianm6213 the killing people to keep it will be more out of self-defense cause people will come for it. And if they see you have a running car they will want to see what else you have.
I always just leave my old truck on a sight grade so I can just push in the clutch so she will roll forward and I pop the clutch and she starts right up. It is a 3 speed on the column.
I've worked on many of traffic signal cabinets struck directly and indirectly by lightning. And they all have lightning and over voltage arrestor wired in. I have never seen the electronics completly survive a direct lightning strike. I've seen power company high tension lines touch a traffic signal ariel line and fry everything in the intersection including the light bulbs( LEDs). My opinion is these arrestors maybe better than nothing, but not full proof. A car is a Faraday cage in itself, thus protected from lightning. Who really knows about EMP protection proof!
Cars are NOT Faraday cages. Search "car lightning strikes" on RUclips for examples. A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure used to block electromagnetic fields. A Faraday shield may be formed by a continuous covering of conductive material, or in the case of a Faraday cage, by a mesh of such materials. To a large degree, though, they shield the interior from external electromagnetic radiation if the conductor is thick enough and ANY HOLES ARE SIGNIFICANTLY SMALLER THAN THE WAVELENGTH OF THE RADIATION. Windows are very large holes; they do nothing to block electromagnetic radiation. The wavelengths of the pulse from a nuclear blast are very short. So, a solid metal sheet would be needed to shield anything effectively. For example, certain computer forensic test procedures of electronic systems that require an environment free of electromagnetic interference can be carried out within a screened room. These rooms are spaces that are completely enclosed by one or more layers of a fine metal mesh or perforated sheet metal. The metal layers are grounded to dissipate any electric currents generated from external or internal electromagnetic fields, and thus they block a large amount of the electromagnetic interference. ANY WIRES extending OUTSIDE of the mesh will act as ANTENNAS and conduct the electrical energy into any device to which they are connected. In that case, a LIGHTNING ARRESTER on each of those wires MAY provide some protection in that case. I have never found where this device or any like it have been independently tested in an EMP environment. Those testing facilities are very expensive to build and operate. The only ones I know of belong to the US Gov. Some utility companies have facilities to test their equipment against lightning strikes but that is a completely different beast.
There is an antenna that is just a slot in a metal surface. Amazingly it is called a "Slot antenna". The longer the slot the lower the frequency it receives/ radiates. On jet fighters for example. So the hood to fender gap becomes one down to around 28 MHz. CB hello. To avoid this multiple grounding points along/around hood are needed. Ground exhaust pipe at multiple points. Car doors. Use phospor bronze spring contacts. Then use the device shown. Or get an old car. Laugh at emp. At home get an old microwave oven, cut off cord (emp path) and store back up cell - use for info storage. Chess, Bible copy, first aid, maps etc. etc. - sw/bcst portable, small ham radio, battery charger and small solar. Microwave is totally sealed for RF.
Exactly that. There have been several tests, using cars up to 2006, if I recall. They ran them through an EMP generator, and all but one either continued to run or restarted. The one that didn't start immediately, did so after some "minor" unspecified repair. Last thing I saw on the subject estimated that between 10 and 20% of vehicles would be killed totally, while the rest would run, but subsystems like radios, lights, and a/c units might fail to some degree.
@@anthonymartin5794 I don't carry my spare key with me when I travel or when I park at Work. I park my vehicle I get out I go into my semi and then I come back to my car later
Stick a spare key in a farraday bag they have them on Amazon the car won't start in that bag hide it behind the seat where nobody will be looking for it.
Hey, thank you for your awesome information in InSight. But here’s the good news. If there is any good news about nuclear war. Electromagnetic pulses (EMP) from nuclear weapon detonations at altitudes from 30 to 400 kilometers (18 to 50 miles) can damage or destroy sensitive electronics. I learned this last week. So based on this. You’d have to do the research to see if you live near a target. A known targeted area because of industry, military, or something else. But many people in the smaller towns and other areas possibly would not be affected by an EMP attack on a major city.
Likely hood of EMP effecting a metal box with rubber wheels is highly unlikely. Cars get struck by lightening everyday and continue to function with no issue. Even direct antenna lightning strikes don't interfer with cars.
@@dmedlin8118 true, but cars are also big Faraday cages, how do u think military vehicle are hardened against EMP. Most modern cars during build cycles are basically hardened the same.
Had an F250 that got struck on the antenna by lightning in my shop. Vehicle was struck while driving and continue to run. The only thing the owner noticed that quit working what's the air conditioning in the radio. The owner got home and shut the vehicle off and got out of the vehicle and left it sit overnight. Next morning the vehicle was cranking but it would not start. Towed it to my shop where we found numerous harnesses melted as well as the antenna and antenna lead. Harnesses and the radio were repaired the vehicle still would not start. And none of the power accessories would work. Engine control processor and body control processors were replaced before we got function back for both the engine and the power accessories. This is not the norm but it does happen.
Well in my opinion, any piece of copper wire in your vehicle would serve as an antenna and an inlet or Pathway to sensitive electronic equipment that runs all the systems in your vehicle you would have to sealed every single wire. This is not only impractical but impossible. A possible solution is keep your vehicle inside a metal shipping container with the door closed at all times. Then place your cell phone on the hood of your car, then have someone call your phone if you can hear it ringing, then your Faraday cage needs some more work. Good luck
I've read their website and I'm not convinced. In the installation in the video, the device is protecting over voltage conditions on the main 12VDC charging system. But how are the 5VDC engine control sensors protected? These are fed from a separate power supply usually in the engine computer (PCM, ECU). The sensors and conductors to the electronic sensors are also exposed to the magnetic field from an EMP and therefore can have their own induced voltages. I don't see how the device in video provides any protection on the engine control circuits. Very misleading!!!
yep, i dont see the point in trying to save me rig. end up getting killed for it. surviving would be all about stealth, dont tell anyone that you have food storage and been prepared with survival gear, just get killed over it otherwise.
Thank you for this video, it's so important, but I wonder how much our governments, US and UK have thought to harden essential equipment? Power stations, emergency vehicles, communications gear, computers etc. I'm not being over dramatic when I say that EMPs now will be used as a weapon and can be made artificially by bombs and not only the sun. I do not expect too much equipment is 'hardened' in the UK which is frightening. Spare parts to fix all this equipment will probably have to come from China and Taiwan. Deliveries are already being disrupted by strikes at ports, but the hold up to get parts after an EMP will be very long and possibly never arrived, depending which countries are affected. I'm making my Faraday cage for my electronics better this weekend.
I don't know, but at $389 for the emp shield, would it be less expensive just to buy replacement electronic parts for your vehicle and store them in your faraday cage?
My company installs EV charging stations and premises surge protectors in SoCal. At 6:40 you mentioned that box will protect electric vehicles from an EMP. Before someone would wire in an aftermarket device to a >$100K vehicle, I’d be interested in looking at the schematics (or if you are concerned with IP, just the brief overview of the discrete components used) to understand if it can do what claimed. Since EVs don’t use a standard 12V battery like a ICE, I’d curious how it would be wired in.
All this does is short the terminals together to shunt voltage when it exceeds a certain level. That's why I think this is a scam. No way they had a new design surge suppressor made for 12V. It's probably the same one used in 120 and 240V systems. In other words, your car system will be fried long before it kicks in.
I had one on my Kia from last year, sold the Kia left it on some lucky guy gets zapped and his car will work!!! I just put a new one on my Corolla today. I also put one on my house. I would run out and turn everything off at the box before sheltering in place IF I have time.... but otherwise I got that covered and highly recommend it
Brother, great neck knife but you might want to reconsider using 550 for a lanyard. Might want to consider something that will break away. Unless that’s 550 sheath over metal pull chain. If so, disregard. Great content
Sounds like another gimmick. So all your fuses will be fine? All your small gauge wires will be ok? Doubt it. What happens when your entire vehicle is electric? How does the body handle emt? We are all electrically charged inside and out.
@@EMPShield I don't know enough about this to really have any opinion on the claims being made. But following that link you show just seems to indicate that you are a partner for an academic research center, is there anything you can share that shows that these have been tested by some sort of federal/standardized body and has been independently evaluated to pass the claims that are made?
Maybe my understanding of a mass coronal ejection is flawed, but I don't see how connecting another path to ground helps, when all components are energized simultaneously. It's like saying you're protected from fire because you have a fire extinguisher in the corner of your home, then the entire house bursts into flames.
Fires are easier to deal with, because you can deal with it early. There's no way to respond to a 1-second EMP. By the time you even think you have to respond, it's over.
That won't work. An emp will target all electric systems in your vehicle at the same time and the wires and other systems in your vehicle will not be able to transfer it to that device.
It's all about impedance. With any electrical device. If this devise can provide the impedance and reaction time needed to shunt the spike it will work because it is technically a part of the entire electrical system in the vehicle or home or whatever...
Well let’s all hope that we never have to find out if this thing will work or not. I realize everybody’s concerned with bugging out. However, it really doesn’t matter if you have a vehicle that can take you to another location, a bug out vehicle, if you just got exposed to large doses of radiation. You now have radiation poisoning and you’re going to die a very painful and what you will consider too slow of a death. Let’s be realistic here. If there is a nuclear explosion, a country that sends a nuclear bomb to another country, the whole world is getting nuked. It’s not like one or two countries are going to send a couple of bombs towards each other. The whole world is going to get involved and every country in the world will have nuclear weapons going off in their country, several of them. There really will be no place safe. Even if you have a bug out plan and great stored resources if planet earth is in a nuclear winter and massive amounts of radiation are all over the entire planet your best hope is that you were close enough to where one of the nuclear bombs went off that you died so quickly you didn’t even realize you died. I had a physics professor who also taught World War III to the US military. When we got to the Chapters dealing with radiation and nuclear bombs he first said that we had to stick with just the textbook information because he couldn’t really give out any information that he taught to the military. The next thing was that he can appreciate all the hard and amazing work that preppers do. He said, however, that he really doesn’t think they fully realize what’s going to really happen when every nation that has nuclear weapons sends them all out to hit all the different countries. He was the one that first told me that if a nuclear war occurred to get as close as I possibly could to wherever one of the nuclear bombs is going to impact. He said that you don’t want to be alive afterwards. He said the ones that die instantly are the lucky ones. The ones left behind are not going to be feeling so lucky.
What about the battery? Maybe I am misunderstanding, but the way it would affect (that I have been described to) is the power source would be faulted. Computers, sensors, lights (etc.) Are down stream of the power source. So in thought, protection of the source would be first priority correct? Again, I'm learning, please be kind.
With all due respect those wires look awfully small and I don't think you fully understand how an EMP works I hope you didn't spend much on that. Also you might want to put a bike in the back of your truck just in case.
we get that question a lot. It comes down to speed. The wires will be just fine because of the speed the device is able to shunt and the induction rate the vehicle will have. The device shunts at 500 trillionths of a second and continues until the charge is dissipated. EMP Shield is currently working on the grid pilot program. Here is a link showing our partnership with the United States Nation Security Collaboration center - nscc.utsa.edu/partnerships.html
@Benjamin Fletcher First your perception of how a EMP is going to effect your vehicle is incorrect An EMP is going to hit the entire vehicle at once meaning all the sensitive electronics are going to be exposed to the EMP blast at the same time as the shield rendering it useless. Second Electric current produces heat proportionate to the conductor and the conductor's conductivity. A small wire is a small wire an EMP can be astronomically larger than huge. It doesn't matter how fast the unit is if the wiring can't handle the load it does however, mean the wiring in this unit will burn out 500 trillionths faster than the rest of the electronics effected by an EMP blast. Shinny object Vs reality. If your looking down the barrel of a loaded and charged gun when the trigger is pulled during a flood that your drowning in how effective is body armor?
JMK, the world leader in RF filters since 1975, an American company. They use caps and resistors from the ancient world of electronics and they have special sauces.
Most suppressors are are metal oxide varisitor and will go completely short at a set voltage, and if the current is too much for them to handle, they will explode.
Watch us learn more about EMP's and how to plan ahead.
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I heard if you disconnect the battery it will be good enough. Nice video thank you 😊from neighbor to the north Canada 🇨🇦
I got news for ya. The Carrington event fried wires. How many wires run that truck over there? Whole lot i bet, Bubba. Your starter, your alternator, your plug wires, coils ETC. All fried. Get your self an old tractor with some spare parts in a cage.
They do have a blanket the prophets from EMP so wires rubber won’t be effected too! I saw it just not long ago!?
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@@georgevavoulis4758disconnecting the battery won't do a thing unfortunately.
Imagine a million stranded Mexican.... They want your running truck!!!!!
I contacted EMP Shield, and asked one question. The answer to tha question was...no, we have never installed our device on a vehicle and tested it with an EMP generator. Wouldn't you think that would be the first thing they would do, and use the videos of the tests to increase their sales? Without testing, this thing is pie in the sky.
Yeah that ain’t how you suppress emp or even redirect electrons from your gear…. No such thing as an emp generator. It’s a nuke.
Thanks for saying that. It seemed like the only thing that would work is an actual cage. Your comment was enough for me to not look into this any further. It looks like the snake oil gimmick "plug this box into your cigarette lighter port. It gives you much better gas mileage." It should be illegal to sell that shit, and blatantly lie about it. It's like a placebo box, but worse. Because placebos somehow benefit a few people.
This thing is BS.
Like Uncle Ricco finds out the hard way that his time machine doesn't work?😂
think you could ground it easier with wire draging on the groundattaching it to grounded copper pipe when parked..
I worked for a company briefly that specializes in EMP protection for the military. And from what the electric engineer said was that the more metal the EMP signal has to travel the less dangerous it becomes to the electronics and that even some modern vehicles would be ok even after an EMP attack it just depends on how much electronics the car has for example vehicles model years 96 and below would probably survive with minimal damage but the newer ones would be screwed.
I heard 1999 and earlier were likely safe?
Yeah I would think so too but I think he was meant later 90’s in general when explaining it. I would even think there would be a few 2001- 2004 that would possibly make it too.
@@mcqtomm the whole point is less electronics. It's not like there's a finite year where the car would be fine. Points and condenser could be fried, it's less likely but possible. The more electronics you have the higher the chance a capacitor gets blown.
Tough part is the EMP actually hits the wires, if the wires are shielded, the wrong length, etc, the car will survive. Odds are the rebound will blow the hardware through the wiring regardless of shielding.
Keep spare parts.
I have an 89 Grand Marquis, will it need EMP protection?
@@jtdubi3 It's not as clear as all of that.
Lightning passes through the car 99.99% of the time. The car will start and keep going. We're talking about an EMP and frankly we just don't know.
The EMP is going to have a magnetic wave bouncing all over, if it energizes the car and goes to ground you're fine, if it hits the wiring of the car all bets are off.
I got 2 EMP proof vehicles....they're called horses.
My back can't handle riding a horse. That would be an absolute nightmare...
@@lunaticgaming7967 buggy with shock absorbers.
I haven’t rode a horse in the last 10 years I was 8.5 years old when I last rode one 😂almost 19 time sure flys by
@@Securenode357 learn to ride.
@@lunaticgaming7967 go carnivore diet. Drop the carbs and sugar and you'll be amazed. Dropped 25 lbs and my back and joints feel 90% better!
I used to build EMP shielded electronics enclosures for Apache helicopters and other military equipment when I worked for an aerospace machine shop. Basically they were micro electronics totally enclosed in alloy boxes with total inner/outer gold plating. There were a lot of other stuff that made it a total package that worked.
What do you recommend for us normies ?
What about your vehicle s in an aluminium building..if your car is in it?
@hilarydunaway4807 sadly wouldn't make a difference at all. You need to have 3 to 7 pharaday cages inorder to protect your vehicle. But definitely doable in the shop/ building your talking about.
@@hilarydunaway4807if you where to do somthing like that I'd say keep your survival rig in it 24/7 obviously lol.
@@hilarydunaway4807 it would be really shitty to spend all that money and time emp proofing a garage only to have the emp go off while out driving and be screwed
I would need to see this device tested. Until then, an older mechanical diesel pickup is the way to go.
Facts
So your "older mechanical diesel pickup" has no electronics, such as a starter or ignition switch?
I think that it is a bunch of horse shit.
@@robinstewart6510 Those devices are robust enough & wouldn't be affected by an EMP. Anything that has a microprocessor is what will be rendered useless
@@Eric2300jeep .. You assume those devices are robust enough. You have no evidence or testing to say one way or the other when it comes to your vehicle. At the same time, most electronics in modern vehicles are fairly well shielded/isolated. They have to be to withstand lightning, electrical shorts, and similar occurrences. In the end, it's all a gamble.
Gentlemen, it’s 2023 and faraday cages have come along way. They now have faraday cage fabric that you can put up like a tent, they’ve got bags, and they even have faraday blankets. The easiest and best way to EMP proof your car/truck/bug out vehicle is to buy the faraday cage fabric and put it around your vehicle target points on top of putting the fabric as insulation in your garage. My uncle is not a prepper, but he went through a stage where he thought he needed to have some supplies on hand. he has some extra money and I was the first person in my family to go to college, falling in love with science. We built in his shop where he has his hunting/bug out area/man cave a EMP proof area. If you have the resources and the space, I would highly recommend that you build an EM proof area and leave all of your stuff in there so you know without a doubt that that area is protected. Whether you have a spare vehicle even if it’s a $500 vehicle or whatever you have out rigged as your battlewagon or hunting vehicle that you build a standalone garage/shop type area and put the EMP fabric. Now to reinforce if you want super peace of mind you can build into your shop a real faraday cage, then put the EMP blanket around the equipment. That is the most sensitive. So you’re doubling up you have all your sensitive electronics let’s say in a safe or whatever you can double up the EMP blanket over that with the faraday cage built around your shop and you have created a hard point that nothings going to get through that. I would just recommend doing that because anybody can make a faraday cage. It’s not that expensive and takes very little research on RUclips to Make.
Do you have videos you put together showing the set-up you built? It might help us all get our creative juices flowing. I had a thought about trying to make the standard metal storge cabinets you can buy from big box stores into faraday cages but I'm a bit fuzzy on where I'd have to grind down to bare metal and how I'd seal cracks, hinges, etc
A Faraday cage would not work by wrapping it around components. If your garage is a real Faraday cage then the tyres are rubber and the floor is not conductive so the car will be isolated from any current so no need to wrap anything further. The emp will travel through any exposed cables though even if you wrap components in anti emp fabric. Such as a battery charger connected to the car. The problem with this device is it might create a ground loop. It might work if the ground was something other than the car. I have protected micro electronics against emp from high frequency welders and it's not easy, even though the emp is not as strong as it would be if there was an emp attack. If you want to wrap you components up you will have to disconnect all the cables aswell. Any cable outside a Faraday cage that comes in will allow excessive current inside the cage and destroy any electronics it meets unless that cable is also fitted with a emp suppresion system..
Remember the scene from War of the Worlds with Tom cruise where he drives into a mob with his minivan? That's exactly what will happen now that you're the 1 guy with a working vehicle. Besides that fuel pumps wont work either. Unless your up in the mountains by yourself vehicles will be dangerous, they'll give away your position and attract unwanted attention. Best bet is to have a good mtn bike or horse.
Ever play the game Day Z? One of the reasons it's so hard to have a car in that game is because a) getting spare wheels is a huge pain in the ass. B) gas is abundant but the cans to carry them are few and far between. And most importantly c) other players hear the car and immediately try to kill you for it. And while sitting in a car you are exposed as your vital spots are literally behind a square of glass that is easy to aim at.
So yeah you make a good point. I try to stay on foot and in the trees
Better to have a vehicle to get to the bugout location less radiation in side of a vehicle
Won't the same people want the bike or horse too?
The first 2 or 3 days you may be ok
@MEDIC MIKE yes but they'll draw less attention plus they don't need fuel. That car will eventually be a paperweight, as long as you can keep calories going in you can ride the bike for a long time.
Here's what's inside the box: A combination of varistors, capacitors, inductors, carbon blocks, avalanche diodes, fuses, relays... It's essentially a surge protector.
Probably some cheap TVS and a simple crowbar circuit. Honestly I'd pass...feels scammy it probably is.
dont forget about the rock hard insulation material surrounding everything inside so you cant easily inspect it.
The key to this unit is that in reacts extremely fast less than one billionth of one second. So it reacts quick enough to protect. No devices before could react soon enough to protect and the previous solution was burned out after one event. A second event meant no protection. The our military is converting.
@@davidroney3224no, the military does not use these scam boxes
@@USNDeepsea1991 Yea they pored some kind of potting material over the insides!😲
Problem is....you can never be 100% sure this is going to work until after the event.
yeah but without it or any shield its all hopeless....we will go back to the Great Grandma Times.......they made it
I doubt this is going to do anything against a powerful EMP. The device itself will probably be fried too.
Also usually only devices which are already powered are vulnerable to an EMP. So if the car isn't already on it will probably be ok. That's why satellites are powered down when passing through solar storms.
Thankyou. No ones ever explained it in straightforward terms. Appreciated
Thank you for this video. Once I'm walking and able to use the left side of my body again and get fully recovered from the severe stroke that I had my wife and I am planning on doing the off grid homestead prepper lifestyle. This is a new dynamic that we now don't have to worry about. Thanks again
If you've had the mRNA vax then chances are you may wanna remove the excess Spike Proteins from your system with the Brom/Ac regiment (and Nattokinase if you're not on a blood thinner).
The mRNA vax is causing cancer, clots, strokes and heart disease by excess storage of the spike Proteins. Brom/Ac removes the spike Proteins.
A roll of aluminum foil would work better.
Retired Electrical Engineer here. I’ve been trained, then successfully designed, tested and fielded EMP resistant equipment.
I’m calling total BS. Any engineer who has worked on EMP resistance gear can tell by just looking at the box you’re holding it will not do what you claim.
Don’t waste your money on this box.
Heard back from EMP Shield. They have never tested a vehicle equipped with their product in an EMP generator. Save your money.
@@dmedlin8118 Don't forget to add an insulator between your device and your cookie tins or aluminum foil. I built a faraday cage from a metal trash can. Sealed all the gaps & lined it with cardboard box material to insulate the items inside from touching the metal walls. The surge will hit the metal of the can & zip around it without going within it (how Tesla used to sit inside a Faraday cage while lightning went off around him just inches away).
The EMP Commission's 2008 report noted above is one of the few published studies that specifically addresses the effects of an electromagnetic pulse on both cars and trucks, in particular with an eye on whether the pulses would destroy the low-voltage electronics prevalent in then-modern vehicles. Pry, one of the authors of the report, said that no other report or study on an electromagnetic pulse's effects actually subjected cars to pulses and he's not aware of any similar study since then. As noted in the report:
"We tested a sample of 37 cars in an EMP simulation laboratory, with automobile vintages ranging from 1986 through 2002. Automobiles of these vintages include extensive electronics and represent a significant fraction of automobiles on the road today. The testing was conducted by exposing running and nonrunning automobiles to sequentially increasing EMP field intensities. If anomalous response (either temporary or permanent) was observed, the testing of that particular automobile was stopped. If no anomalous response was observed, the testing was continued up to the field intensity limits of the simulation capability (approximately 50 kV/m).
"Automobiles were subjected to EMP environments under both engine turned off and engine turned on conditions. No effects were subsequently observed in those automobiles that were not turned on during EMP exposure. The most serious effect observed on running automobiles was that the motors in three cars stopped at field strengths of approximately 30 kV/m or above. In an actual EMP exposure, these vehicles would glide to a stop and require the driver to restart them. Electronics in the dashboard of one automobile were damaged and required repair. Other effects were relatively minor. Twenty-five automobiles exhibited malfunctions that could be considered only a nuisance (e.g., blinking dashboard lights) and did not require driver intervention to correct. Eight of the 37 cars tested did not exhibit any anomalous response."
Early cars caused EMP interference with TVs and radios of the time. Cars produce EMP fields and are heavily shielded to prevent them from causing problems for other devices. As they are so shielded to prevent emissions they are also pretty well protected from them.
good to know Ty
@@thee_number_six6227i remember cell phones doing the same thing with the radio going, usually can hear interference when getting an incoming call
@@thee_number_six6227that would be EMI not EMP.
Thank you sir I was awesome
This is a very complex topic. More than likely your vehicle will survive a solar flare 'carrington event' and maybe even an emp. Depends where you are. EV's are another issue. If they are plugged in getting charged when it hits...done. But most of those chips in your car don't have a damn thing to do with whether your car will run or not. In fact, pick the ones that do, and buy a replacement and put it in a faraday bag. Once the last nuke has gone off, and most of the world is destroyed you can put it in and go for a drive. The issue is the grid. EMP's....well, if nukes are being set off....the problems are too numerous to even speak of or list or predict. The consequences are literally immeasurable. There is nothing more dangerous than a false sense of security.
You must not own a new chevy lmao If your seat is not in the right position that sucker won't start. Lmao
Do you know what the best way to find out which chips, relays, etc. are essential for a vehicle to run. Still planning on getting one of these Shields, but the electronics in my '97 Wrangler have been on my mind. I do all the work on it and full half of the parts I've had to replace were relays, sensors, etc.
@@ResilienceOnPurpose Get a replacement computer model for it and keep it in a Faraday bag!😁😁
@@ResilienceOnPurposeive got a 97 Wrangler and been wondering the same thing. If u ever get any good answers as to what components u need to faraday up could you share please? Thanks in advance
Just make sure you’re also hauling a clean, unused gas can, a HAND pump bulb-style siphon hose, and a big Phillips screwdriver (to pop open gasoline caps on those other cars that didn’t buy the device) so you can keep on going-and-going-and-going (like the Energizer Buggy)!
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And keep a good supply of octane booster on hand for petrol motors. It takes roughly 2-4 weeks for ethanol to settle out of modern fuel and become like a sludge, so any fuel you siphon past that will become worse and worse until it literally ruins your petrol engine due to pre-ignition.
If you are running a diesel then you'll be fine. You can run old low octane petrol in a 50-50 ratio with used motor oil out of the oil pans of cars and as long as you filter the motor oil it'll run fine through a diesel motor without doing damage. It won't run as well as actual diesel or biodiesel, but in a SHTF scenario any kind of running is as good as gold.
After studying CME's such as the Carrington event in 1859 and EMP Starfish Prime in 1962, I'm very skeptical that it would perform as advertised. It would be difficult to accurately simulate these type of events in a lab.
Yeh like what good will it do,(even if it works), if the entire grid is down.
It's a get the money now and there's nothing it's going to do to help.The spike is going to absorb into every metal terminal tht it can find in every space and will be catching many appliances on fire
Yeah I was going to invest but for the money and a chance of it not working I'll do without
@@ŘƏĐŴÖÖĐ not to mention the roads would be grid locked
@@ŘƏĐŴÖÖĐ you can get to the sporting good store to loot the ammo
It is the OBDII vehicles that have been around since 1996 that have EEPROM chips that can be electronically flashed, which an EMP burst could flash one of these chips that have to be worried about. OBDI vehicles from 1988 to 1995 have EPROM chips that have hardwired, or burned in, set of instructions that would not be effected by an EMP blast.
now this is some useable information thank you
Great source of information. If this does in fact work, and you can roll out, be mindful of people that will do anything to take what you have. Stock up on guns and ammo so you at least have a fighting chance on you egress out of town.
If nobody's car works, I don't need to bug out. Just defend my ground.
Working with some MI Army Natl Guard folks earlier this year, got to talking and they showed us...to their knowledge, DOD has had these very devices installed in their vehicles. Shows us how easily they install too so I bought one for the truck when they were doing their ~$100 off promos. Hoping never have to test it. Also suggest grinding paint off any metal surface thoroughly where the ground wire attaches.
MJ thats correct! Thanks for comment
These have gotten so expensive they are no longer affordable.
@@bobbytowesr3387 don't worry bout it. let me give you some food for thought...think about it this way, doesn't the fact that there is no metal parts of your auto touching the ground at any time make you question how it could act as a lightening rod and telegraph that energy into the ground? and remember that old advice you were given that if you are in your car and the roads are wet and a power line comes down on your vehicle you should stay inside and don't touch any metal parts. because the rubber tires are what are touching the ground (all be it that if there is rain, that is on everything, that could in theory be a conduit).
still, 4 rubber tires. so, how is attaching that wire to the auto frame functioning as a ground exactly? another thing, when did any lightening rod ever need to be powered by a battery? if you ask me, those devices look more like an old internet modem from back in the day...you know, to send & recieve signals. to me it sounds just like more snake oils being sold by the folks that brought the world pandemic coV-19. but, i know nothing about nothing. so, i have to, question everything.
be well & thrive,
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@@salli8324 do you know why your car tires are black? The rubber is impregnated with carbon, a fabulous conductor of electricity. An early test of rubber tires almost killed a toll booth worker and the driver when they passed the coins over due to the static electric charge built up from the rolling tires. Tires are great conductors of electricity. Feel free to do your homework.
@@gungadingo , some home work i have done on carbon was that carbon is not a conductor. however, if that car owner was running on 4 bald tires, perhaps those were steel belted tires and were very good source of conduction. but i don't know those details because i was not there. and i know nothing, so, i have to question everything.
be well & thrive,
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Turn your garage into a faraday cage and keep an old car in there. Carry a bicycle with you in your everyday vehicle so at least you don’t have to walk home. That’s my suggestion.
I just bought a mechanism online that allows you to time travel. It has a headband with a positive and negative charge and a dial for the time. You just plug it in after you put on the headband, you get to see what your life looks like in the future..
Napoleon's uncle used it to go back in time
Could you please go back to 20 years ago and convince me to buy gold?
THIS IS PERFECT!! WHY, Because it has never been truly tested. If a lot of people buy it, they make a lot of money now. IF an EMP does happen and it DOESN'T work, nobody will be able to call/text/go to them to ask for their money back! PERFECT!! LOL For all we know, it is a box with a 12 volt LED an a label and nothing more.
I am skeptical about a box of tricks that'll work as an EM shield, the best shield for your vehicle would be to ground the metal body to the ground thus making a faraday shield for the sensitive electronics.
How would that work? By ground the car would the emp bypass the sensitive equipment of the vehicle?
@@mibd7812 Essentially yes. Your vehicle is basically a metal box aka a faraday cage. Electricity follows the path of least resistance and so grounding your vehicle the electrical pulse would conduct through the metal panels and frame and then out through the grounding wire and tires (although rubber they have carbon added to conduct static so you don't get a shock after driving)
@@timberwolf0122 thank you for that knowledge right there
@@mibd7812 it works on the same principal as tin foil hat
Mad genius would love to see a video on an old junker with say romex grounded to a spike then just dirt.
To Protect you vehicle from an EMP event, you would have to cover all wiring and ECM module with wire mesh or a complete covering of metallic foil to prevent EMP from generating current in the wiring which would overload the ECM module (brain box). Many of the wires coming from the ECM carry very small currents and voltages going to sensors and ignition components. All your wiring will act like an antenna, charging the wires far above the voltages the ECM module can handle and will burn it out. Many of these devices sold for EMP protection contain a device on each wire lead called a MOV ( metal oxide varistor). These devices work by shorting an overvoltage condition for a short time but often times the MOV will be destroyed in the process or retain a residual resistance after shunting an overvoltage which would affect performance of the ECM module to run the vehicle so it's probable that this device would have to be removed after a protection event. I am an electrical engineer so i have had experience with MOVs and seen what they do when overload conditions exist. Each MOV in this device should be fused in case they short out after clamping the higher voltage, some MOVs will actually destroy themselves after clamping high voltages or the cicuit board traces of the MOV module will burn out trying to hold massive currents when the MOV clamps the voltage spike. Just FYI.
They make a canvas cloth that has steel mesh incorporated throughout the material. It's pretty expensive and comes in 59 inch wide rolls. You can sew or glue it together for a "tarp" that will cover your vehicle and the ground around it.
What if you ran like 4 - 0 GA ground wires from like your negative battery cable to the earth, or from like a chassis ground to the earth, or maybe at all 4 corners of the car? Would that possibly be able to give a path of least resistance to the emp? So maybe when you park, you just get out and ground, at home you could put a quick connector of some kind on there. Obviously when your driving your screwed but what ya gonna do.
As I wrote that question, I realize I may be way off the mark here but hopefully someone will explain it to me.
@@ChefBoyarDEEZ that would make your vehicle wiring act even more like an antenna and still wouldn't protect the ECM or Traction Control unit from getting spiked. Covering the car with a faraday cage( screen wire basically) would provide some measure of protection but remember, a magnetic field that strong would go through screen wire also. Imagine throwing a rock in a pond, the waves created from the force of the rock world make waves and those waves are close to how you would visualize magnetic waves from an antenna pulse but more closely imagine a doughnut shape growing bigger as it travels away from the EMP source and an EMP pulse from an atomic bomb would be like an asteroid hitting the pond at 100, 000 mph for comparison. You could just keep you vehicle in a metal storage building, completely enclosed, even the floor too so as to redirect the magnetic wave. The metal building would create a bubble around whatever is inside it. The building itself would get very hot due to the currents developed in the metal but this would absorb the pulse mostly. The building would need to be made of ferrous metal like steel to most effective and all panels would have to be bonded to each other very well. I used to work on RFI (radio frequency interference) shield rooms for testing electrical power cables at up to 100, 000 volts at 20 amps and the rooms were covered inside and out with sheet metal that was soldered at every joint and the whole room (20ft x 20ft) had ground rods at each corner going 20 ft into the earth. There was no cell or radio service when you shut the doors.
What if you removed your ecu entirely and stored the ecu in s Faraday cage? When you were ready to "bug out" could you reinstall it and be good?
Yep a FARADAY CAGE secured to EARTH ground
EMP will fry the circuits immediately and having some wires to a battery will not stop that. Think of it this way, if you shuffle your feet on carpet, and then touch a light switch on the wall, you will experience the shock before the surge can get to the power panel and have it trip the main if it was that sensitive. The damage has already been done at the switch. Same with a vehicle CPU. The charge in the atmosphere will zap everything equally It would be a matter of chance that the charge in the atmosphere tickles and trips the EMP protector before the car circuitry. If it fails, how are you going to get your money back?
Wouldn't you need a Faraday cage to surround your whole vehicle.
@@glengarbera7367 that's exactly what I was thinking 🤔
This has been tested by the Government and they stopped testing for failure at just over 40x.. it works.. don't know how, but I just know it does..
That’s an interesting analogy.
A problem I see with the comparison between the two is the difference of how electrons move in a static DC environment (rug example) and an AC (EMP) environment.
As another poster mentioned, it’s not easy to model these complex EMP events. USA and Russia both performed several simulations decades ago and that’s the data tables scientists still use to this day.
We understand them in mostly theoretical (circa 1960’s) terms- long before our world became dependent on microchips.
Frequency, exact duration and distance from any EMP will play the most critical roles whether or not our vehicles will be able to start afterwards.
Take the battery out 30 mins before the nuke hits itll be fine
Weather it works or not, I now know more than I knew before. GOOD JOB EXPLAINING EMP.
Thanks....
Here, have some more knowledge. *whether it works or not.
Very informative video! One of the few that had their info instead of just foggy ideas about EMP's.
It still doesn't solve the problem of the inherent complexity of modern vehicles, EMP or not, but one of these days I'll be getting one for my jeep, one for my home, and hopefully they make one suitable for a motorcycle by now.
I think bikes would be a great investment. also extra tires & tubes...and a very big lock with thick twisted cable.
Ya man, electric bicycles with hub motors can easily be recharged with solar, and still be pedaled if necessary, and they can be used to generate electricity, and the battery can power and charge many different things , imagine being were it's cold and using the bike battery with a DC to DC converter to produce 12v to power an electric blanket, and use a few solar panels to charge during the day . Charge your phone and flashlight with a USB on the bike. 👍🤪👽📡🧟🛰️🏍️🛰️
You shoulda told us, that you spent the night in a Holiday Inn & we woulda known, you were "Spot On" with your research.
Unfortunately, this fine reference to “Holiday Inn Express” (originally) will go largely missed and your genius under appreciated. I SAY UNDER, because I appreciated it sir, assuming you’re a He Him pronoun user. I apologise if you’re a homosexual cross dressing millennial or you piss in a litterbox. Lol
Great explanation! I like to think of electricity as a fluid in pipes. It has it's flow and pressure but if you rank up the pressure, the valve and sockets will start to leak and break!
All Right!!😂 Yoou had me at the raspberry!!🤣🤣 Im so glad I found this info. It was presented well, and easily, so even I could understand it!!
Well, my friend, I don't have a vehicle, don't drive, so don't need this device, but you sold me on it, if things ever change.
Your enthusiasm is obvious and refreshing and your accent is a delight to listen to, as is mine,(Scottish) I'm told.
I may have viewed one of your vids in the past, I'm not sure, but we appear to be on the same wavelength, from my quick glance at your channel, so you've earned yourself a new subscriber.
I'm not a prepper by any means but I've always said if I was going to prep for anything it would be for an EMP. When I'm driving home from work I frequently look at my GPS and say if an EMP struck right now how long would it take me to walk home. Yeah I'd like to protect myself from that as I work 35 miles from home.
Sneakers, a hat, water bladder, flash light, a gun and get huffin
Your car is protected, but it will be stuck behind ten thousand broken down vehicles
When I was younger I always carried my skateboard in my car. I never knew when my car would break down. This was before cheap cell phones. I once skated 10 miles home.
@@robpolaris7272
I've lost count of the times I've traipsed over ten, a few times twenty, miles, having gotten a date home and missed the last train or bus myself.
A skateboard would have been fun.
I suggest you better have some maps to n a compass cause my understanding is that GPS won't work either n maybe even the compass will be useless. And a big out bag to because I ain't walking no highways when that happens.
Thank you for the knowledge about EMP shield. Amazing. No testing. Pass.
I have looked high and low, and have not been able to find a video of an EMP Shield equipped vehicle tested by running it through an EMP generator. Show me a few of those, provided by an independent entity, and I'll buy one. One would think that if the thing worked, there'd be videos of a test like that all over the place.
It's what I've been saying ☝🏽💯
Back pre 9/11 I was working for a contractor we were tasked with military EMP testing had multiple vics, everything from a 1943 jeep, mid 50's WM300, mid 60's chevy 1/2 and 3/4 C series, military humvees emp shielded, as well as older/newer dueces/M935 series 5 tons. So they would do the testing in evening. 1/2 the shielded mil vics survived, all the older vics survived, our rental suburban went max smoke, I often wonder what hertz mechanics wondered when the thing was dragged back. Best EMP proof is Mil or no critical components. on my 71 W200 I have a grounding point where I park and clip it in. Same for my 89 F250 IDI. On my 71 I have the old points distributer and coil in a grounded 50 cal can, Also a spare HEI unit and voltage regulators/starter relay. this was a long time a go but I think the best deal is a separate ground rod. But this new technology may be cool.
@@deepbludude4697 what is MIL? And would it take any special precautions to ground a modern vehicle, or just connect it to a solid ground rod? What would happen to a vehicle if the battery was already disconnected during the emp?
@@bitcoinsmash1650 MIL -Military refering to the milspec shielding... I pulled the trigger on one of these, I have a 96 powerstroke diesel shit tons of component's/computers to buy all the spares would have broke me so I spent 350 bucks on this IDK if it will work, but if it does then ill have a big ass 4x4 boxtruck to endtime around in. and I still ground the trucks when parked.
@@deepbludude4697 Do you basically just have a stake in the ground with a wire that you connect somewhere on your truck’s frame? My truck has tons of at risk components and my electrical know how is currently limited to wiring a sound system.
I just bought a points distributor for my old 79 f350 …..easy conversion if need be!
Usaf built a huge emp test bed in New Mexico, big enough to test a B52 on it, after decades of testing everything that moves they had enough data collected to be able to emp proof every design to follow, they shut it down in late 80's or 90's as to generate the field took an Insane amount of electricity.
Make sure you have a long hose to pull the gas out of the tanks buried underground at the stations since the pumps won't be working.
I am very skeptical of this. If you hook this to your battery the battery wires are also hooked up. The emp charge will still follow all the wires so it would still fry everything. The only way I could see this working is if you actually ran your battery wires through it before they powered the rest of the vehicle.
I think a bicycle or horse would be the only thing left for travel because where would you be able to get gas or electric for your vehicle
it has nothing to do with the battery. An EMP pulse will affect anything that is not shielded. This phony little plastic box will not protect anything. Not even a car radio. This is a scam.
@Ron Keeley what you say makes sense to me. So I am having a difficult time believing this EMP protection device would work.... just don't know what to do
Finally someone who breaks this down Barney style for me. Thank you
Problem is, in the event of an EMP and it doesn't work, how you gonna call customer service? lol, Cool vid man, I didn't know this stuff existed. Need to protect the Harley!!!
I like the tech....everything you said was on point...my only question is with the microchip and transponder in the truck key.
It's painful to listen to him try to explain this. Here, let me try. A radio transmitter (normally) transmits enough power in a narrow frequency band that a signal (radio program, TV show, radio control, etc) for an antenna to receive a small amount of current - enough for purpose of the signal (the same whether its a radio broadcast, cell phone signal, garage door opener, over the air TV, whatever). An EMP is somewhat similar to a radio transmitter, except instead of a narrow band, it transmits on an extremely wide range of frequencies. Lightning is an example of this - if you've ever been listening to radio during a lightning storm and heard interference - this is a small EMP, and it will interfere briefly with all radio frequencies (so no matter where your radio is tuned, for that brief spurt, the signal from the lightning is stronger). A Nuclear bomb EMP works like that only it is 10's of thousands of times stronger - so instead of making a blip of static, the interference will damage the receiver. The signal is so strong, that it doesn't actually even need an antenna to do this - every piece of metal (think wire - each wire in a circuit) will act as an antenna and pick up this pulse which will then travel along the wire, seeking an electrical ground and burning out all the electrical components it travels through along the way. Since every piece of wiring acts an an antenna, the electronic doesn't have to be a receiver (it could be a computer, or your car's electrical system) - and it doesn't even have to be turned on.
In the Navy, the radios I worked on all had components strategically placed in them to divert damaging high voltage pulses to ground. Another approach to this would be to make what's called a Faraday cage (basically a big metal mesh box that's connected to ground), and put your sensitive electronics inside it. I'm skeptical about this EMP shield. I think at best, it might protect the car's computer, but there may be other components that would prevent a car from being useful (think electrical fuel pump, all the fuses (for sure), probably even all of the lights would be burned out by an EMP).
Kind of like building nuke bomb shelters & offering a huge money back guarantee for them. If the event happens and the national infrastructure crashes (or fries), I think people will have much more to worry about.
It was kind of funny to read there ad on Amazon stating if it doesn't work there's a $25,000 insurance policy 🤣🤣....are you going to wire me that money?
Good explanation!
I remember seeing a youtube video demonstrating how a microwave oven interferes with wifi because they are both at the same 2.4ghz frequency.
So on a car with a distributer, what parts should you keep inside to replace when it happens? Distributer plugs wires and fuel pump? Is that it ?
Would parking your vehicle in a fully metal clad shed have the same effect?
Great vid!
These folks are near urination, KS, USA.
Good products, reasonable price
If emp strikes there's no grid for fuel anyway, not to mention this gadget would almost certainly not work as you would need a faraday cage around your entire vehicle that is grounded, especially for anything as powerful as a nuke. Any transistor exposed is fried on contact
I agree. But why the hell would the western world going green? Arguments aside with climate change, we are set us up catastrophic failure like back to stone age. We as a society is so dependent on electricity/technology that 90% would die in just one year!!!
sounds like the sort of thing you could deploy from a cherry picker mounted in the bed of your truck. couple rolls of wired up chain link on hydraulics
The military will have diesel maybe the army will take a few cans of chew for a full tank
@@nicksearles3996 Diesel still has electronic component's !
A bicycle or a horse would probably be the only thing left for travel and they would be in high demand
Thank you so much for explaining these!! Considering it all everything we own now!! ❤❤❤❤
Interesting video. Love your research and putting it in Layman's terms.
Psy-op approved. You fell for it. It's a test. Study more.
In layman's terms, it will not work.
Your are a very smart southern gentleman!
I'm a little skeptical about an EMP event affecting shielded condutive material (i.e., wires and circuits made of aluminum, copper, silver, gold, and so forth). Exposed conductive materials (i.e., wires and circuits) are another matter and may pick up the free-floating electrons. But so would our bodies, which are less conductive. It's important to note, however, that an EMP event is not believed to be harmful to humans. Furthermore, when a cardiologist was asked about the effects of an EMP event on a peacemaker, for example, the doctor stated that the pacemaker would most likely remain unaffected because it's shielded. The same would be true for the wires and circuit boards in a vehicle because they, too, are shielded and are designed to work in rather harsh conditions of heat, cold, and moisture.
Look up shielding. I don’t believe cars have shielded wiring.
@@jbaker8871 I doubt cars use bare copper wires.
There’s always a point in any circuit where those wires aren’t protected.
@@jbaker8871 As an auto electrician of 40 years I can tell you that there are plenty of shielded cables in your car.
Vehicles aren't shielded. Buy a classic car or really old junker, better yet a old diesel with mechanical fuel injection
Better than my idea 😅 i have a bunch of 4’x8’ lead sheets from work because we do lead lined drywall in hospital xray rooms and when ever we have left over I always peel the lead off and take it. I was thinking about wrapping my truck’s computer system in lead and praying that would work. But i have no science to back up my idea lol
Probably wouldn't work. The EMP also strikes the wiring and the wiring will lead the EMP to the computer.
Better to take the lead lined sheetrock and line your garage with it.
I'm skeptical. The black and the green wires both connect to the same circuit, since the battery negative, in every car, connects to the body and chassis. There is no electrical connection to the earth, unless you add some kind of strap that drags on the ground.
I agree, the chassis ground and the negative terminal of the battery are the same electrical points, without the addition of a earth ground there's no way this is going to dissipate any electrical charge to this vehicle. If it were the 18 gauge wires would probably fry too.
It's snake oil. Fear mongering people into buy a silly product that does nothing
everyone says the same thing. I do not know what's inside the 2 dollar conduit box with the fancy sticker. But apparently it's a magic sponge.😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@TrustIssues76 And not worth the money they are charging either!!! 😜
Thank you for breaking it all down featuring this solution.
In the event an EMP happens you better watch that vehicle 24/7 365 and you better be willing to kill lots of people to keep it.
I’m happy to live in the rural desert with not much people around me. I would say I’m comfortably ok and prepared.
Kill people to keep your car? Wow. Priorities.
@@tricianm6213 I didn’t say I would I’m just saying that is the only way you would keep it if you have the only running car. People would kill you for it
@@tricianm6213 the killing people to keep it will be more out of self-defense cause people will come for it. And if they see you have a running car they will want to see what else you have.
@@tricianm6213
I would...no problem...what's your point?
I always just leave my old truck on a sight grade so I can just push in the clutch so she will roll forward and I pop the clutch and she starts right up. It is a 3 speed on the column.
awesome!!! that was a concern I had with my bug out vehicle
Enjoyed your video! Thank you so much for the information!
Playing ACDC - Highway to hell - in your bugout-car during a EMP-attack gives a new perspective.🤣🤣
I've worked on many of traffic signal cabinets struck directly and indirectly by lightning. And they all have lightning and over voltage arrestor wired in. I have never seen the electronics completly survive a direct lightning strike. I've seen power company high tension lines touch a traffic signal ariel line and fry everything in the intersection including the light bulbs( LEDs). My opinion is these arrestors maybe better than nothing, but not full proof. A car is a Faraday cage in itself, thus protected from lightning. Who really knows about EMP protection proof!
Cars are NOT Faraday cages. Search "car lightning strikes" on RUclips for examples. A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure used to block electromagnetic fields. A Faraday shield may be formed by a continuous covering of conductive material, or in the case of a Faraday cage, by a mesh of such materials. To a large degree, though, they shield the interior from external electromagnetic radiation if the conductor is thick enough and ANY HOLES ARE SIGNIFICANTLY SMALLER THAN THE WAVELENGTH OF THE RADIATION. Windows are very large holes; they do nothing to block electromagnetic radiation. The wavelengths of the pulse from a nuclear blast are very short. So, a solid metal sheet would be needed to shield anything effectively. For example, certain computer forensic test procedures of electronic systems that require an environment free of electromagnetic interference can be carried out within a screened room. These rooms are spaces that are completely enclosed by one or more layers of a fine metal mesh or perforated sheet metal. The metal layers are grounded to dissipate any electric currents generated from external or internal electromagnetic fields, and thus they block a large amount of the electromagnetic interference. ANY WIRES extending OUTSIDE of the mesh will act as ANTENNAS and conduct the electrical energy into any device to which they are connected. In that case, a LIGHTNING ARRESTER on each of those wires MAY provide some protection in that case. I have never found where this device or any like it have been independently tested in an EMP environment. Those testing facilities are very expensive to build and operate. The only ones I know of belong to the US Gov. Some utility companies have facilities to test their equipment against lightning strikes but that is a completely different beast.
There is an antenna that is just a slot in a metal surface. Amazingly it is called a "Slot antenna". The longer the slot the lower the frequency it receives/ radiates. On jet fighters for example. So the hood to fender gap becomes one down to around 28 MHz. CB hello. To avoid this multiple grounding points along/around hood are needed. Ground exhaust pipe at multiple points. Car doors. Use phospor bronze spring contacts. Then use the device shown. Or get an old car. Laugh at emp. At home get an old microwave oven, cut off cord (emp path) and store back up cell - use for info storage. Chess, Bible copy, first aid, maps etc. etc. - sw/bcst portable, small ham radio, battery charger and small solar. Microwave is totally sealed for RF.
Exactly that. There have been several tests, using cars up to 2006, if I recall. They ran them through an EMP generator, and all but one either continued to run or restarted. The one that didn't start immediately, did so after some "minor" unspecified repair. Last thing I saw on the subject estimated that between 10 and 20% of vehicles would be killed totally, while the rest would run, but subsystems like radios, lights, and a/c units might fail to some degree.
I have one of these on my solar incase of lightning but I guess the side effects of emp protection is nice too..
Looks cool. However i would think you would need your electronics shielded w a faraday cage. I might check out their data and test setup.
I've been waiting for someone to show this 👍🏾
I love your voice, you say you don't know a lot but this was a very intelligent way to explain things! Thanks!
Can you tell me how the empty shield protects your keys because most modern cars are push button or have have chips in the key itself
Place your spare key in a farraday bag or box. Boom
@@anthonymartin5794 I don't carry my spare key with me when I travel or when I park at Work. I park my vehicle I get out I go into my semi and then I come back to my car later
Stick a spare key in a farraday bag they have them on Amazon the car won't start in that bag hide it behind the seat where nobody will be looking for it.
I purchased a small faraday cage designed to hold key fobs
@@mikebaker833 most keys have a physical backup
Hey, thank you for your awesome information in InSight. But here’s the good news. If there is any good news about nuclear war.
Electromagnetic pulses (EMP) from nuclear weapon detonations at altitudes from 30 to 400 kilometers (18 to 50 miles) can damage or destroy sensitive electronics.
I learned this last week. So based on this. You’d have to do the research to see if you live near a target. A known targeted area because of industry, military, or something else. But many people in the smaller towns and other areas possibly would not be affected by an EMP attack on a major city.
Likely hood of EMP effecting a metal box with rubber wheels is highly unlikely. Cars get struck by lightening everyday and continue to function with no issue. Even direct antenna lightning strikes don't interfer with cars.
@@dmedlin8118 true, but cars are also big Faraday cages, how do u think military vehicle are hardened against EMP. Most modern cars during build cycles are basically hardened the same.
We got struck by lighting in a Pontiac grand prix years ago. Skin tingled a bit, smelled the ozone in the car....car just kept runnin' no problem.
Had an F250 that got struck on the antenna by lightning in my shop. Vehicle was struck while driving and continue to run. The only thing the owner noticed that quit working what's the air conditioning in the radio. The owner got home and shut the vehicle off and got out of the vehicle and left it sit overnight. Next morning the vehicle was cranking but it would not start. Towed it to my shop where we found numerous harnesses melted as well as the antenna and antenna lead. Harnesses and the radio were repaired the vehicle still would not start. And none of the power accessories would work. Engine control processor and body control processors were replaced before we got function back for both the engine and the power accessories. This is not the norm but it does happen.
@@montejones5788 Yes but your electronics failures were almost certainly due to shorts in the melted wiring rather than the strike it self.
Well in my opinion, any piece of copper wire in your vehicle would serve as an antenna and an inlet or Pathway to sensitive electronic equipment that runs all the systems in your vehicle you would have to sealed every single wire. This is not only impractical but impossible. A possible solution is keep your vehicle inside a metal shipping container with the door closed at all times. Then place your cell phone on the hood of your car, then have someone call your phone if you can hear it ringing, then your Faraday cage needs some more work. Good luck
I've read their website and I'm not convinced. In the installation in the video, the device is protecting over voltage conditions on the main 12VDC charging system. But how are the 5VDC engine control sensors protected? These are fed from a separate power supply usually in the engine computer (PCM, ECU). The sensors and conductors to the electronic sensors are also exposed to the magnetic field from an EMP and therefore can have their own induced voltages. I don't see how the device in video provides any protection on the engine control circuits. Very misleading!!!
It's a fake. Don't waste your money.
Its a scam !
Great job of explaining.
Does this also make a forcefield around the vehicle to make it bullet proof as well?
Don't give these crooks any ideas...
Good information I'll be looking it up.
Could you imagine having the only running rig after a emp. Lots of evil people would try to take it..
yep, i dont see the point in trying to save me rig. end up getting killed for it. surviving would be all about stealth, dont tell anyone that you have food storage and been prepared with survival gear, just get killed over it otherwise.
Thank you for this video, it's so important, but I wonder how much our governments, US and UK have thought to harden essential equipment? Power stations, emergency vehicles, communications gear, computers etc. I'm not being over dramatic when I say that EMPs now will be used as a weapon and can be made artificially by bombs and not only the sun. I do not expect too much equipment is 'hardened' in the UK which is frightening. Spare parts to fix all this equipment will probably have to come from China and Taiwan. Deliveries are already being disrupted by strikes at ports, but the hold up to get parts after an EMP will be very long and possibly never arrived, depending which countries are affected. I'm making my Faraday cage for my electronics better this weekend.
I don't know, but at $389 for the emp shield, would it be less expensive just to buy replacement electronic parts for your vehicle and store them in your faraday cage?
Not a bad idea
@@robertlugo6564 - better idea... also good to know if your vehicle has fusible links, and where they are....
path of least resistance... $1 vs $389
Very good information.
Thank you, sir.
My company installs EV charging stations and premises surge protectors in SoCal.
At 6:40 you mentioned that box will protect electric vehicles from an EMP.
Before someone would wire in an aftermarket device to a >$100K vehicle, I’d be interested in looking at the schematics (or if you are concerned with IP, just the brief overview of the discrete components used) to understand if it can do what claimed.
Since EVs don’t use a standard 12V battery like a ICE, I’d curious how it would be wired in.
POS electric cars arentt 100K LOL
All this does is short the terminals together to shunt voltage when it exceeds a certain level. That's why I think this is a scam. No way they had a new design surge suppressor made for 12V. It's probably the same one used in 120 and 240V systems. In other words, your car system will be fried long before it kicks in.
I had one on my Kia from last year, sold the Kia left it on some lucky guy gets zapped and his car will work!!! I just put a new one on my Corolla today. I also put one on my house. I would run out and turn everything off at the box before sheltering in place IF I have time.... but otherwise I got that covered and highly recommend it
Wheres the link for these?
Brother, great neck knife but you might want to reconsider using 550 for a lanyard. Might want to consider something that will break away. Unless that’s 550 sheath over metal pull chain. If so, disregard. Great content
I hope you Don't believe this will save your cars.. if so, we would have it on our military cars etc.
We do.
I should sell these what a great idea. So when this does not work everyone is screwed any way and I don’t have to give any refunds. Perfect.
Sounds like another gimmick. So all your fuses will be fine? All your small gauge wires will be ok? Doubt it. What happens when your entire vehicle is electric? How does the body handle emt? We are all electrically charged inside and out.
@@EMPShield I don't know enough about this to really have any opinion on the claims being made. But following that link you show just seems to indicate that you are a partner for an academic research center, is there anything you can share that shows that these have been tested by some sort of federal/standardized body and has been independently evaluated to pass the claims that are made?
EMP Wave as it approaches your car: Them wires look like a mighty good antenna I should expend some energy there.
Maybe my understanding of a mass coronal ejection is flawed, but I don't see how connecting another path to ground helps, when all components are energized simultaneously. It's like saying you're protected from fire because you have a fire extinguisher in the corner of your home, then the entire house bursts into flames.
Fires are easier to deal with, because you can deal with it early. There's no way to respond to a 1-second EMP. By the time you even think you have to respond, it's over.
Great explanation sir!
Great video, thanks!
I would love to order one through an affiliate link if you had one.
Just putting that out there.
This is a scam. Don't buy it. Learn about EMPs from good, reputable sources. Not from somebody trying to sell you something.
A lightning rod with a ground will Ground the charge so by putting a chain that draggs the ground under your truck should Ground a emp charge or a cme
That won't work. An emp will target all electric systems in your vehicle at the same time and the wires and other systems in your vehicle will not be able to transfer it to that device.
You are correct faraday cage is the only way to stop EMP
@@bryanlewis7732 exactly, at best this device is an over-engineered surge protector.
www.empshield.com/testing/ Check out the data for yourself. I did...
It's all about impedance. With any electrical device. If this devise can provide the impedance and reaction time needed to shunt the spike it will work because it is technically a part of the entire electrical system in the vehicle or home or whatever...
Well let’s all hope that we never have to find out if this thing will work or not. I realize everybody’s concerned with bugging out. However, it really doesn’t matter if you have a vehicle that can take you to another location, a bug out vehicle, if you just got exposed to large doses of radiation. You now have radiation poisoning and you’re going to die a very painful and what you will consider too slow of a death. Let’s be realistic here. If there is a nuclear explosion, a country that sends a nuclear bomb to another country, the whole world is getting nuked. It’s not like one or two countries are going to send a couple of bombs towards each other. The whole world is going to get involved and every country in the world will have nuclear weapons going off in their country, several of them. There really will be no place safe. Even if you have a bug out plan and great stored resources if planet earth is in a nuclear winter and massive amounts of radiation are all over the entire planet your best hope is that you were close enough to where one of the nuclear bombs went off that you died so quickly you didn’t even realize you died. I had a physics professor who also taught World War III to the US military. When we got to the Chapters dealing with radiation and nuclear bombs he first said that we had to stick with just the textbook information because he couldn’t really give out any information that he taught to the military. The next thing was that he can appreciate all the hard and amazing work that preppers do. He said, however, that he really doesn’t think they fully realize what’s going to really happen when every nation that has nuclear weapons sends them all out to hit all the different countries. He was the one that first told me that if a nuclear war occurred to get as close as I possibly could to wherever one of the nuclear bombs is going to impact. He said that you don’t want to be alive afterwards. He said the ones that die instantly are the lucky ones. The ones left behind are not going to be feeling so lucky.
What about the battery?
Maybe I am misunderstanding, but the way it would affect (that I have been described to) is the power source would be faulted.
Computers, sensors, lights (etc.) Are down stream of the power source. So in thought, protection of the source would be first priority correct?
Again, I'm learning, please be kind.
With all due respect those wires look awfully small and I don't think you fully understand how an EMP works I hope you didn't spend much on that. Also you might want to put a bike in the back of your truck just in case.
we get that question a lot. It comes down to speed. The wires will be just fine because of the speed the device is able to shunt and the induction rate the vehicle will have. The device shunts at 500 trillionths of a second and continues until the charge is dissipated. EMP Shield is currently working on the grid pilot program. Here is a link showing our partnership with the United States Nation Security Collaboration center - nscc.utsa.edu/partnerships.html
@Benjamin Fletcher
First your perception of how a EMP is going to effect your vehicle is incorrect An EMP is going to hit the entire vehicle at once meaning all the sensitive electronics are going to be exposed to the EMP blast at the same time as the shield rendering it useless. Second Electric current produces heat proportionate to the conductor and the conductor's conductivity.
A small wire is a small wire an EMP can be astronomically larger than huge. It doesn't matter how fast the unit is if the wiring can't handle the load it does however, mean the wiring in this unit will burn out 500 trillionths faster than the rest of the electronics effected by an EMP blast. Shinny object Vs reality. If your looking down the barrel of a loaded and charged gun when the trigger is pulled during a flood that your drowning in how effective is body armor?
@@EMPShield can you show us any paper work about the DOD tests on this product?
effin great explanation, the simple and straight is often easier to comprehend, and im a physics major in training lol thank you, ya hick.
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great explanation, thank you sir!
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DISCONNECT YOUR BATTERY BEFORE EMP FOLKS..
The video is helpful . The easy solution is disconnecting your battery
Disconnecting your battery will not do a thing to prevent the EMP from ruining your circuits. You'd better rethink your strategy.
Skeptical, I get the feeling that we may find out...
Best of luck. Maybe I'll meet you on the road in my old ass car.
Most suppressors are are metal oxide varisitor and will go completely short at a set voltage, and if the current is too much for them to handle, they will explode.
Great job explaining a complex idea. Thanks Man.
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