My understanding of EMP is piss-poor, but wouldn't it be as simple as disconnecting the electronics from the battery entirely so they're not powered down/energized?
EMP Proof TJ
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My understanding of EMP is piss-poor, but wouldn't it be as simple as disconnecting the electronics from the battery entirely so they're not powered down/energized?
Think of radios. When the signal hits an antenna it creates a very small voltage signal, which is amplified by the stereo to go to the speakers. A nearby lightning strike or EMP creates super-powerful radio waves where every bit of unshielded wire becomes an antenna that picks up voltage and sends it wherever it can go, potentially damaging sensitive components.
Disconnecting wires at the battery won't really help. Disconnecting wires at the electronic device will take away the long wires that are a big antenna, so that can potentially help.
ejay
TJ Addict
Every time I read or see something and think it is about the most ridiculous thing I've run into for a very long time, a thread pops up like this one and reminds that no matter how much silly I've seen or read, the supply is apparently boundless.
I'd speculate that since the TJ is a smaller vehicle with more or less older motor and fuel injection system the wire paths are shorter and thus less antenna length to pick up damaging energy.
Love to see that report.
Especially since we all hang radios all over our rigs...and lights...wonder what all those extra wires would do for resistance to EMP. More wire would be bad I imagine.
-Mac
Love to see that report.
Especially since we all hang radios all over our rigs...and lights...wonder what all those extra wires would do for resistance to EMP. More wire would be bad I imagine.
-Mac
ejay
TJ Addict
nathanotis
TJ Enthusiast
Jesus.
I hope they realize alien tech operates on an entirely different spectrum. Those hats are basically worthless.
of bigger concern in a SHTF scenario is my TJ, if it happens to have a full tank, will get me about 170-200 miles before it's useless.
If you're really concerned about prepping your TJ for post apocalyptic use, you need to be swapping in one of those old school diesels that will run on damn near any liquid that burns. Otherwise all you're doing is buying a few extra hours of use.
If you're really concerned about prepping your TJ for post apocalyptic use, you need to be swapping in one of those old school diesels that will run on damn near any liquid that burns. Otherwise all you're doing is buying a few extra hours of use.
even if you don't buy into the man-made EMP strike, the natural ones we get from the sun happen enough that it's likely we'll eventually experience one. The "Carrington Event" in 1859 created aurora visible in the Caribbean, set telegraph offices on fire, shocked operators, and brought networks down in Europe and North America.
We missed one of approximately equal size in 2012 by nine days...
We missed one of approximately equal size in 2012 by nine days...
I doubt anyone specifically tested the TJ. If anything, they probably did what the EMP Commission did in the early 2000s. They took a bunch of vehicles that represented standard equipment in use and tested them multiple times. While a lot of them had minor issues afterward, only one wouldn't run. Small, closed systems tend to do fairly well with EMP.
I don't see any point in testing a TJ. Everything on it was industry standard at the time. It would likely do worse than most vehicles of the era because it doesn't have a metal roof, which provides at least a little shielding. You can't look at the $5 trailer lights on the back and tell me they spent extra money on above average electronics.
I don't see any point in testing a TJ. Everything on it was industry standard at the time. It would likely do worse than most vehicles of the era because it doesn't have a metal roof, which provides at least a little shielding. You can't look at the $5 trailer lights on the back and tell me they spent extra money on above average electronics.
Joeinnewjersey
TJ Enthusiast
Pretty much any vehicle will be useless eventually in such a scenario.
What actually happened was it started, then a bunch of women that wanted their garages back got mad about that and they scrapped the whole program. Chris has it archived. Was a bad scene.
My very first job out of college in 1973 was working for a company doing EMP hardening of Minuteman III launch control facilities. That was when I learned there was next to nothing known about EMP. There was a classified waveform that was their best guess at what they thought EMP might look like. In the following years I saw a house of cards built by beltway bandits who were paid many $M to further expand this guess. Yes, EMP was experienced after a high altitude nuclear burst. No, not much more is known about it, nor what it’s effects might be. It is a mathematical model based upon the sketchiest of data.
I'll hop in my '77 Mercury & we'll cruise the apocalypse together. I have about 300 8-tracks and a spare belt for the player. We should be good.