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Originally Posted by Chris
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In essence they're all valid points. No, you can't protect something just by unplugging it or turning it off. If you have a big metal box (like, say, a Dutch cookie tin) and put a wooden block in it, then put a laptop, radio, etc. on the block and can close the lid without the device you're trying to protect touching the sides, you've created a Faraday cage that's basically EMP-proof. Likewise if you built yourself an all-metal shed with no large openings, or openings that could be closed with metal shutters, and put items inside that were, like the cookie tin, equally kept off the metal surfaces inside
and you make sure to run a grounding cable off to a metal stake in the ground, presto, you've got an EMP-resistant storage unit. It's going to
help some but it's not going to be perfect.
Remember, though, to heighten the disaster aspect the T2k designers indicated that "EMP was far worse than anyone expected" (a throwaway line I ignore, but that's just my campaign).
07-13-2012, 09:00 AM
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