Can a faraday box be built to protect our trucks from an EMP ?

 

don't worry about the EMP. the fallout and mushroom cloud will kill you way before the emp ever gets to the truck.

 

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Solar flares dont make mushroom clouds

 

If you're worried about EMP swap in a 12v Cummins.... It's full mechanical and only needs electrical for starting.

As for your question, it would be tough because the wiring in the truck would act as an antenna. You could build a cage around the computer but the wiring would absorb the EMP and spike the computer that way.

Only other option is a carb and points.

 

I dont have a cummins, 3 gassers. On a points ign, would the coil get fried ?

 

This sounds like a serious problem. I better find my plans for a foil helmet. Coil would be fine since it doesn't utilize any solid-state components. ECM, ignition/TFI module, radio, your laptop/desktop, coffee pot, microwave, television, cell phone, DVD player, alarm clock, etc are all in the line of fire.

 

Oh crap, we're screwed

 

sounds like someone has been watching doomsday preppers......I'll play along with a rhetorical question. Let's say an EMP does hit for whatever reason and
I have a genarator. If the generator wasn't running at the time of the strike,would it still work after the strike since it wasn't on?

 

Ok... Tank was kind enough to download some EMP knowledge into me so here goes.

Simple electrical devises are relatively immune from EMP. larger electric motors, generators, transformers, relays, etc. It's the smaller stuff that's at risk, especially transistors, IC's FET, microprocessors, etc.

Cars, by their very nature are faraday cages. Metal box, isolated from ground... Still, some cars are effected so they are likely only limited faraday cages. No studies have been done but likely it's the newer cars loaded with all the fancy computers.

So... Carb + Points should be almost 100% safe. As would a mechanical diesel like a 12v cummins. A DS2 truck would likely be OK and even an EEC-IV truck could survive.

An EMP blast from a solar flare, even the most outrageous one ever, is not likely to create a field strong enough to knock out cars. Telephone and electrical lines spread out for miles and miles and miles? Absolutely. There simply isn't enough wiring in a car to act as a good inducer. Also, there's the limited faraday cage thing too.

A 20 mega-ton nuclear blast, 200 miles up would be the worst possible EMP blast imaginable. Carb + Points and mechanical vehicles again would likely survive. The more electronics the less it's likely to survive but overall I think most cars would be ok.

The idea that ALL cars will be knocked out by an EMP is gloom and doom propaganda designed to make for interesting TV shows...

With all that said I think getting a hand crank gas pump and some crow bars would be more useful so you can still get gas out of the in ground tanks.

Oh... And lots of 5.56 or 7.62 ammo and the appropriate delivery device... If we're talking zombie apocalypse, we're talking rifles... Hand guns are just so you can get to the rifles...

 

Cjben, how'd you know my wife had me watchin that show.....lol. f100, isnt the whole Mayan thing supposed to be about solar flares ? I think ? If a nuke hit, i'm with 70 miles of NYC an 50 to Philly an live 15 miles from a nuke pplant, i'm screwed anyway i turn......lol. Nice explanation, btw. Ty

 

Cosmic rays. We're crossing the galactic centerline and are going to pass though a beam of sorts that emanates from the center of the universe.

 

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Those alien rays added too many more voices in my head, so i had to cover everything.....lol

 

I haven't seen the show... I haven't even turned my TV on in the last month or so... But, I will say this from experience. Whatever they said is most likely blown way out of proportion so people would watch the show. Y2K anyone??

As for the tinfoil stuff... It's terribly entertaining and some of it ends up becoming reality. I remember being looked at like some doom and gloom nutter in 2006 when I was telling people that the housing market was going to crash, banks were going to fail and we were going to be in a recession if not a depression. People wanted to know where my tinfoil hat was...

Then when everything crashed people were running around saying "Nobody could have seen this coming..." Ummm.... Hello??

Read it, be entertained by it, maybe some of will even come true, but don't get worked up into a tizzy over what you see on some TV show...

If it makes you feel better collect all the stuff to convert your 88 to carb with a DS2 dizzy as well as a points dizzy. If they were right you spend a weekend converting and you're good to go. If not... Well you have a bunch of parts on the shelf...