Cobraman502
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I'm curious to know if anyone has tested a flashlight against an EMP. I would think that copper flashlights might act like an emp shield.
Close, but not exactly. A true Faraday cage is grounded, so unless you happen to be holding the light at the time, or it is otherwise somewhat in contact with a ground, the protection is not complete. On the other hand, especially if the reflector is metal or metallicized and in contact with the head, the inner works are somewhat protected. If the pulse is strong enough to produce strong eddy currents in the body and head, some damage could still occur, but if you are that close to a pulse, there will probably other things to worry about. Personally, that is why I keep the incan P60s from my Surefire lights around. Living out here in the wilds of Iowa, with the closest targets fifty to sixty miles away, a nuclear EMP pulse should not affect my lights. On the other hand, it would probably take out enough of the electronics infrastructure between here and there to cause myriad other problems. A few upper atmosphere bursts or a large coronal mass would probably send us back to the 1800s rather quickly.Aren't all reflector lights a sort of a Faraday cage?
HDS lights, according to Henry, will survive an EMP.
They do make bags that are EMP proof, check on AM. for them.
It takes about 3-4 days for the effects to hit earth from the Sun. This latest flare up should not effect us at all here in the states from what I'm reading, to the point of knocking out our flashlights.
Always a interesting topic on what it would really do-have a open mind and be nice to different views.
After looking into EMPs and how it would potentially affect the electronics I own, my personal conclusion and guesstimate gleaned from everything I read and asked is that most small electronic devices such as flashlights and headlights will make it through an EMP just fine. There's simply not enough EMP conducting material even on a metal flashlight to attract the quantity of electromagnetic power during an EMP needed to fry it's circuits. So sleep easier with one less worry to be concerned with.
Even so, if desired as a further precaution store your flashlights without batteries in them and if possible remove the head from the battery tube to mitigate the possibility of EMP damage even more.
For the diehard prepper find a good polymer constructed flashlight for a backup and/or buy a number of small Dry-Shield 3400 bags and place the electronic devices you'd like to protect from EMP in them for storage. Double bag for even more protection. The bags would work for CME's too though it would be way overkill in my opinion as even a very strong CME would have less effect on a flashlight than an EMP.
If he was, he doesn't have to worry about that one any more. It passed by last night. And since we seem to be heading for a sunspot minimum, I doubt there will be many more to worry about for a few years.I wonder if this prompted the OP
The sun just belched out the strongest solar flare in 12 years
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...S&utm_campaign=FBvideo&utm_content=SOLARFLARE
This just made my day. You're lucky my keyboard only got sprayed with water when I spit it out laughing. :naughty:Since I started collecting lights, I stopped testing the Compton effect. My days of setting off Thermonuclear Warheads in the backyard are pretty much so over with. Not to mention the updated HOA rules strictly prohibit Nuclear testing. Not really sure why.