How an EMP Works 

Good thing my ATV I have not Fuel injected 😊 means I'm safe

would a emp destory a electrical componant that wasnt on? like a phone?

@@unknownwolf4046 No, because your ignition system will still fry if it's gas. Newer electronic injection diesels are just as screwed, if that's any consolation.

@@BayAreaBully7667 yes. You would have to shield the component in a faraday cage/bag. If the wave of electrons that comprise the pulse are not absorbed/deflected/dispersed by anything else before reaching your phone, they will enter the circuitry and overload it, frying it instantly. Doesn't matter if it's on or not, disconnected from a battery or other source of power, the circuits will fry.

Is any of the damage reversible? Or if a cars ECU was not in use or in storage would it still be damaged?

The most useless killstreak

@@zareeftashfique8168 and it took too many kills to get lol, the story mode emp is what I cared about most

If anybody ever manages to set a real emp off in real life.. I’d be very disappointed in knowing that person wasted 13 kills to set that emp off…and should had instead gone for the Nuke

I love the club penguing coffee music in the background

Hell Yah!

@@howtheory sad to see club penguib is gone😭

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@@howtheory If I were Disney I would have your video taken down due to copyright infringement. Too bad I'm not.

@@theseek7278get a life

Thanks man

Just wrap whatever you want protected in a conductive metal

@@bicboi1930 and ground it.

I feel like you got that backwards… how do you make an emp with no nuke not so obvious. Your microwave works as a simple emp protection due to the faraday cage inside

EMP stands for electro magnetic pulse, I can literally rewire a disposable cameras capicitor to knock out any out any home router. you scale that electrical discharge up you can knock out electric cars and. cell phones it's literally nothing more than a high capacity electrical discharge. the fact you think you need radioactive elements tells me you need to go back to school kiddo. you don't need radioactive components to produce short wave EMP attacks. I could stand outside your house with my tampered disposable camera and fry your home Internet. its literally that easy

nuclear weaponry does produce employment waves but an emp explosive is basically just a wireless electrical overload to a given system. I don't know how it works fully but I know they are relatively easy to make!

If I'm losing, it will be great.

@@ironmantis25 I like this guy, he's so positive lol

So stupid and the least of all worries!!!

I appreciate that

Ayeeee ma guyy

It’s because no one knows why the bottom is negative and why the top is positive lol

It makes sense

Static is formed when two insulators rub together and the friction causes electrons in the most conducting material to flow freely. The material with the most electrons is negatively charged and the one with the least is now positively charged. That’s what happens in storm clouds. When enough static builds up, the electrons jump from cloud to cloud, or cloud to ground in order to equalise the charges. Now in order for electricity to jump through air the air needs to get ionised so it can be conductive. Every centimetre of a jump requires thousands of volts. So a lot of energy is in lightning.

Probably the distance was sufficient for the EMP to dissipate and not have enough energy remaining to affect the lights.

It all depends on where the bomb was detonated. The closer to the ground the less serious the effects. An explosion 250 miles above Kansas would cripple the entire continental US. And it's not an electrical charge that causes the problem. It the ionization of molecules in the air that causes extreme heating and burning up of electrical components.

Sounds like a doomsday plane or something

@@howtheory this is definitely happening, we are victims of power

@@agungbaskovic we stay on the creators side , Maker of Heaven and Earth 🌍 and through Jesus He gives us salvation 😅

Yes it will. The EMP will pass over the wiring and create a current in it. Anything connected to the wiring can be damaged by the extra current and if the current is strong enough, can arc to ground (chassis).

Any wire that's live with current at the time will be effected. When a vehicle is turned off, not all the wiring turns off with it. Some wires get constant voltage as long as a battery is hooked up. Only way to prevent it would be to pull the battery cables off of the battery.

@@garyr7027 basically, it's gotta be lucky and know nukes are coming in advance to save your car

@@garyr7027 i read somwhere but not sure how accurate it is... Even if you pull cabled of battery out and lets say you try to plug cables back in the ext day, your car will be damaged anyway. Because the radiation of EMP will be there at that area for 3 months or so.

Buy an extra ecm just be be safe

I did this 2 years ago but I used a lot of the sources mentioned on the wikipedia page if u wanna check it out :) Edit: by wikipedia page, I mean the emp wikipedia page

@@howtheory thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Completely agree

Nothing much, the devices just have to be hardened meaning the delicate circuits can't handle larger loads and function properly

@@howtheory so if it has too much of its own energy, i won't work.

I thought Faraday cage can avoid emp

@@muhammadwazienaqwayusuf3335 It can protect the item through conducting the current to ground around the item being protected.

@@dang48 grounding doesn't work on an EMP. It's not ac/dc that takes shortest path of least resistance to ground. An EMP can energize a metal conduit buried in the earth and travel to the inside of a building and fry everything inside. They make filters that work by failing open when the frequency exceeds a certain limit to prevent the charge from moving past.

EMPs don't affect the electrical components such as spark plugs afaik, it messes up with the delicate electronic parts 🤔🤔 no?

Still has to be old diesel vehicles, newer ones use EFI system and the ECU can fry.

But spark plug circuitry is already designed to handle insanely high current. If the circuit can handle a spark it probably can handle an emp.

Bailey Harrison emp will Disable the Battery.

What about a 60s era vehicle using a points ignition. No sensitive electronics. Even the voltage regulators were mechanical.

Interesting question. We don't have delicate microprocessors that the typical emp would mess with

@@howtheory :) It's coming.

I see and know all. (Btw if u are KGB agent, I just got it from wikipedia😉)

@@howtheory nooo I work for Mossad.

Oh true

If this is true, it is possible, but considering what we have and have not seen from Russia since that time, it seems improbable. If the Russians had the papers and employees, we should already have seen some sort of evidence of this in Russians' daily lives, eventually trickling down even into our own. So far, that does not appear to be the case.

@@N0B0DY_SP3C14L do you think there is more knowledge about emp related weaponry in existence than what the world knows nowadays? Or could Tesla have left real secrets that are now in the hands of the Russians? Suppose your guess is as good as mine...

@@N0B0DY_SP3C14L human greed and thirst for power knows no bounds. Most technologies are weaponized before being passed down for people to use. Don't be surprised if they have weapons from those lost docs is they have them.

@@N0B0DY_SP3C14L every single UFO sighting could be Russians, and only time can tell.

@@Hj61S827 The probability that I am your father is higher, and only time or your mom may tell.

Im no scientist, but I believe it would work. The inner workings of an EMP do not require external oxygen, which means these devices can cause an EMP within the vacuum of space. Once the electrons are emitted by the pulse, they should have no problems penetrating unprotected electronic devices(like satellites)

@@howtheory but they need either Oxygen or nitrogen, and earth's magnetic field. Only the neutrons would cause the emp, so imo it would be a weaker pulse

Yes it can travel in space.

Solar flares.

It would solve so many problems

Powerful. Hospitals go out. Police shut down. Shit show

Electrical signals are the basis of information transfer in the nervous system, making this the only possible area of concern. Nerve cells operate at about 40 to 90 mV between the inside and outside of the cells, which are separated by a double layer membrane about 0.1 micrometer thick. This membrane gives the cells insulation that would take a voltage in excess of 1MV per meter to breakdown. Since EMP voltages peak around 50KV even an intense EMP event would not cause a breakdown of the cell membranes. Furthermore, the triggering time of a nerve impulse is about 1 to 2 milliseconds, while the initial pulse of an EMP is about 1 nanosecond. This means that EMP would not cause false triggering of neurons. EMP passes through the body so fast, current cannot begin flowing in the body to cause any harm.

@Mixologist shut the hell up he just asked a question dipshit

@Mixologist plus that had nothing to do with the reason why

We're organic and don't have metal wiring or traces in us for the magnetic waves to induce a current internally.

Lol I said "Starfish prime"

Almost impossible. The human body uses current, but our delicate circuits aren't so easily reachable to the emp as regular electronic devices

@@howtheory Thats a relief!! Thankyou for replying.

A pace maker would be a problem

Rigged cell towers.

Very good question. Not exactly sure how the electromagnetic disturbances would travel and interact through water

Only one way to find out....

Dont electromagnetic transmitters travel at the speed of light

No

Theoretically yes. Practically maybe

I don't believe so. If the circuits are open, then the circuits will not overload. However, most electronic devices are always on, even of it seems off

It will. The wiring or traces inside will have a current induced in them. If the current is high enough, it can arc through the gaps in the switches to ground and damage your devices.

yes, all circuits that aren't sufficiently shielded will fry.

@@RealMacJones Well I guess if emp weapons are developed and used we're doomed

Lmao naw

Not necessarily. The delicate components like the capacitors, inductors, and resistors may get overloaded by the intense magnetic field produced by the emp

I believe the batteries would be alright. The circuitry and the delicate components(capacitors, inductors, resistors, chips) connected to the actual battery source is what will take the hit

Maybe. Not sure if that spark plugs will be affected. If it's diesel, it will be good because the engines use compression, not spark plugs

@@howtheory Plugs may survive but a diesel also requires a fuel pump for its compression. The fuel pump would be damaged.

That’s what I’m wondering. Like if you remove all your fuses and car battery too? Would it maybe save most of it?

It would still get damaged. The wiring or traces on the boards would have a current induced in them by the magnetic field. The only real way to protect them is shielding (ie buried in the earth, or protected by a faraday cage which would be another way of shielding them.

Both are effective lmao