Timeline for How could a man-portable EMP shotgun generate a pulse?
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| Feb 16, 2023 at 16:21 | comment | added | Robert Rapplean | @Samwise, oh, that one's golden. | |
| Feb 16, 2023 at 8:15 | comment | added | Samwise | @RobertRapplean Of that I have no doubt, I think my favorite one was of an office microwave making a PC's clock run backwards... | |
| Feb 15, 2023 at 7:06 | comment | added | Robert Rapplean | @Samwise, I've seen reports of a woman crashing 1950's era equipment by walking past them in nylon stockings. i think that was in "Surely Your Joking, Mr. Feynman". I have a poorly grounded USB3 dongle that losses HDMI connection to the monitor when my cat brushes past. | |
| Feb 13, 2023 at 0:12 | comment | added | Sam Kitsune | Well yes, but actually no. When I said it needed to mess with a server, thats enough to take one down, but you'd need one quite a bit larger to take down a dozen of them dashing at you. | |
| Feb 12, 2023 at 22:56 | comment | added | Samwise | @SamKitsune Seeing as people have been able to disrupt servers simply by jangling bags of coins in front of them (I couldn't find the link though), a firecracker wrapped in foil is probably sufficiently powerful for what you need. The crux of it is just dump a burst of energy into a coil of wire with lots of turns and then quickly make it not have lots of turns... the faster you do this, the more potent the pulse | |
| Feb 12, 2023 at 22:50 | history | edited | Samwise | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2023 at 22:15 | comment | added | Sam Kitsune | With a machine shop, they could cook up maybe twenty of them and build something to trigger and fire them. I mean, it wouldn't even need that much explosive, just enough to crush the copper pipe. | |
| Feb 12, 2023 at 22:14 | comment | added | Sam Kitsune | Snirk ...great answer! I'd guess my team could cook up something a little better than a coffee can and a pie tin, I was imagining something like it, but using a small plastic explosive, a coil of copper wire, a large steel pipe with a cap on each end and a copper pipe inside, sticking out on one end. The coil would wound over the copper pipe and fitted into the steel pipe with the explosive, then capped off, a hole on one cap letting the inner pipe stick out. Ideally the outer pipe wouldn't explode, only the copper one on the inside, and thus making my EMP. | |
| Feb 12, 2023 at 22:10 | history | edited | Samwise | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2023 at 22:03 | history | answered | Samwise | CC BY-SA 4.0 |