EMP/SOLAR STORM.. WILL YOUR SOLAR POWER SETUP SURVIVE??

[@OBXSOLWIND]

The one thing I do know about CMEs or EMPs is our grid acts as a huge antenna. Turning off switches or breakers may not give you enough seperation from the massive amount of absorbsion of stray current that our grid would be enduring and trying disapate. Seperating your electronic devices from the grid is a must.. Hope that helped..

[@OBXADDITUDE]

Having unplugged electronic equipment, grounded or ungrounded being saturated by an EMI burst will be induced with enough potential to damage solid state devices. The best protection against this is magnetic shielding. Creating a passive or active electrically conductive structure around your electronics to dissapate the magnetic field is the best approach. However the greater the magnetic field anticipated dictates physical size and can be very large depending on the size of the magnetic field.

[@SoCalPreppers]

chock full of good stuff brother thanks for the tid bits and good shits brother....

[@OBXSOLWIND]

From my understanding exposed conductors like antennas or our uninsulated power grid will have the tough job of absorbing all this stray current. Having a large antenna up during an EMP or CME will not be a problem as long as it is not grounded or hooked up to your radios. The problem lies in active systems like all our creature conforts the run off of electricity. I guess the answer to you question is the least amount of exposed (uninsulated) wire you have the better. Cheers Brother..

[@ricardosalinas498]

Hey guy I really like your solar home setup you must have invested a lot of time and money your system is very impressive i am just getting started doing this solar thing buying small items at a time and putting a system together thanks for all the info God Bless

[@HomeDistiller]

from my experance with high Hz energy (tesla coils) i have blown up a GTI (a cheap Chinese one) via striking a belt sander that was plugged in close to the GTI (the same outlet) it hit the earthed chassis. and exploded the fuse in the GTI and also the mosfets, i replaced them and it worked fine again. so keeping spare mosfets for your inverters can be a good idea, i have also blown a fluro ballast (an old school one) with a strike to the globe.

[@OBXSOLWIND]

I would try to help anyone I could. I am fortunate to have a great group of friends and neigbors who are like minded. Those who would try to take what I have with force would be met with force. Walk on eggshells when it comes to your friends and neighbors. I have never backed down or tryed to hide what I was doing. The key it to live life at its fullest. Doom and Gloom is the worst thing you can do when trying to get your point accross...

[@JustinCaseSolarPower]

the Hit to your House through the power lines can and most likely will be very small. Yes they do act as a Antenna. and that is very bad. as it will blow out all the Sup-stations and Transformers on the way to you house, That is where the most problem will be. if that happens. Depending on where you live, You man not have power for the next 2 to 5 years. Transformers the big Jobs, are on a 2 year back order now. This is just to bring a different Prospective into the equation. Nice video Kevin.

[@HardcoreFourSix]

from what I have read EMP induces electrical energy in a conductor. that is why the grid is so vulnerable..long, long conductors=huge amount of energy that would fry transformers. The opposite would seem to be true, so if you are not grid-tied, your system might have a chance. I think the effect is also attenuated by distance from the detonation. Since atmospheric testing ended before the age of solid-state electronics, most of the public data and maybe even the classified stuff is guesswork

[@dave0723]

LOVE your Videos, just found them.

[@evangelon2]

Oh, and were can I get my hands on some of those sweet DC rotary disconnect switches that you have in your system? they look pretty badass...

[@firedawg529]

As always, great video

[@SoCalPreppers]

as compared to RFI that loves to travel the surface of the conductor, what does static or cme magnetic energy prefer, and stranded or solid cable to travel over? Or, for that matter, how about lightning? what is the best type of wile/cable for arresting static EMI as apposed to RFI? thanks brother ! great video!

[@nrodge1]

A solar flare is very weak. If you pulse a wire floating out in space with a magnetic pulse it will create a voltage across the wire, if you could measure it at that point, how much depends on the pulse. A lot of the new circuits use 3V so it's getting even more possible to over voltage a internal circuit with a pulse. And flash memory is simply electrons stored in a cell, all you have to do to flip one is put more electrons into it. 65 characters left this is a great medium to get technical in.

[@nrodge1]

I agree. The LAST resort would be human charge controller on/off, then diodes are next up then cheap controller etc... Big diodes will survive and if you have a bunch, even better. In a SHTF situation I will be too busy to turn off the panels at night and I know I will forget. You are right about the batteries and panels surviving, you already had one big EMP to prove it! Also have some spare AC sockets because the GFI sockets will go/blow the chip but you can change them out for convenience.

[@nrodge1]

Put some big diodes, a couple of those $7 12/24 CMP charge controllers and a spare inverter stored away in a sealed metal box. The diodes would prevent nighttime feedback into the panels and most likely you will use all the solar power in a SHTF situation so it will be hard to overcharge, but easy to forget to disconnect the panels at night. If the $5 controllers survive, so much the better but the big diodes will survive a EMP even if they are outside. All the fancy controllers have CPUs.

[@nrodge1]

Yes, the metal box is nice till you start running wires into it from the outside and even worse, up on the roof where there are long wire runs and big metal frames around the solar panels that act like EMP pulse antennas. People should be prepared for their fancy, expensive, wonderful controller to fail in a EMP or even lightning strike situation and have a cheap back up ready to go, that's the point of all this, even diodes would be good to have. Not being prepared is your choice.

[@nrodge1]

No, your fancy controller will most likely fail. Listen to people who know. Bits inside a flash chip (your CPU) can flip. OBX got hit and so did I by a EMP, it's called a close by lightning strike. A EMP will create pulses of high voltage in a circuit along any wires or in some case circuit board traces, look it up. Magnetic storage like your hard disk would probably survive because it would be such a short pulse. The electronics may be blown but you would probably be able to recover most of it.

[@thebrooklynprepper]

LOL Great vid brother and how you been!!!

[@OBXADDITUDE]

There are still electrically connected components that are in front of the power switches on equipment. A bolt of lightning arc's. The potential of that lightning will also arc inside equipment, but not if it is unplugged from the grid. Unplugging equipment is always the safest bet.

[@mccunecp]

I think in the future onces I get some perpty I want to get a shipping cataner to put my stuff in that way its I hop be protected.

[@OBXSOLWIND]

Your Wife won't let you have a hammer LOL !!! Cheers Brother..

[@OBXADDITUDE]

What is that white box thing sticking up from behind the apex of your roof behind those panels? Is that a directional antenna of some sort? Spark arrestor?

[@MrDrichey]

So if a guy was in the design stage pre-construction of buildings and systems, He ought to design a faraday/hardened room for all this stuff yes?

[@markojovic2161]

Heya! Have you heard about - Maxim Earth 4 Energy (search on google)? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my cousin got amazing returns with it.

[@KVUSMC-KU4SMC]

Great Video Kevin

[@ek9772]

MidNiteSolar has three SPD models.

[@OBXSOLWIND]

That is great input and I have always encouraged that and thank you. I do keep spare parts in a hardened enclosure. I think my point was if the grid was down we would have lots of spare time to manage our charging perameters..

[@thevaultohio]

The EMP voltage spike is more than enough to jump from the frame to the electronics under the panels.

[@MrTrekFanDan]

I know it sounds a little nuts, but... Can you 'chicken-wire' fence the entire room?-walls, floor and ceiling? Or something low cost like that? Just curious.

[@nightcorelover5631]

Excellent system! Are you willing to share schematics sop that I may be able to duplicate your system???

[@HomeDistiller]

um no, do you know how a tesla coil works? im inputing about 2500W and getting 5 foot long arcs, (or about 4 million volts, kinda, but not really as its RF) so that would work out to about 0.0008A assuming 100% efficiency (and id say id be lucky to get 50%), so not raw amps at all, much closer to the effects of an EMP.

[@TechStories79]

Did insurance cover your two charge controllers which went down?

[@digbot5987]

You talking about solar flares solar power want work.

[@TurkeyShootps3]

im throwing all my small electronics in my dryer and washer!

[@ristin59]

I have a couple of questions Sir. I've been told that during a electrical storm, event if you turn the power off to devices on your electrical grid, that protects them from damage. Is that true or should we also unplug them? Would turning off your electrical mains protect every electrical device?

[@fargley001]

Interesting timing with what just happened in Russia.

[@916deez]

I thought they banned hammers in NY ...if not they will

[@nrodge1]

I had a CMOS chip go into latch up due to a "pulse", those chips are known to do that. You can read about it at techluck.com on the forums about the CMP 12/24 controller. It all depends on the technology, but OBX is correct that putting spare SHTF simple cheap controllers or diodes into a metal box would be a good idea. If it's not expensive, why not? Also, having the skills to fix stuff will be very important and the public fool system failed everyone in that department. Skills are #1.

[@ScratchinMyAss]

Excessively Impressive.

[@evangelon2]

Your videos are awesome, it's been a little adventure to surf through them. My understanding of the EMP is that (like any electromagnetic wave) energize any coil or length of conductive material that it passes through (like you I am not a specialist in the field of nuclear radiation but do have a background in telecommunications and signal propagation). Logically this would suggest that wireless communications would be the most vulnerable to EMP as they are designed to sense or create very subdle changes in the state of charge within their frequency ranges. An analogue that comes to my mind is that an EMP hitting a walk-talkie (HT) antennae would be using a 1000 ton freight train going 100 miles an hour to push a button on your TV remote. It just not designed to handle that amount of force. Next would be any transformers, The coils in our appliances could have a massive surge generated in them which could blow out sensitive electronics, and theoretically backfeed the wiring in your house and hurt other sensitive devices. The power grid has massive surge arrestors (similar to the ones (I'm assuming you have gas filled shunts?) in your system to protect against lighting) in between key points within the grid that would theoretically protect one overloaded part of the grid from affecting another (example: Stepdown transformers at substations that are within the vicinity of lighting strikes can propagate a massive voltage that the surge arrestor will conduct to ground. (that is usually what is happening when your lights flicker during a thunderstorm, the grid is "venting" a lighting propagated voltage surge to ground and protecting the system). If an EMP is strong enough it could cause a transformer to self destruct, blowing the fragile insulation away between the primary and secondary coils. The "Cans" on the poles on the outside of your house however don't have that kind of protection, they could create massive surges on what is normally the primary side of the transformer. This could cause massive over voltages on the transmission side of the local power distribution, every transformer on every pole would then back feed every other transformer on every other pole all at the same time... (Boom). The secondary coils would then not only have a surge induced in them by the EMP itself, but also by the massive surge created by the primary sides of the transformer. That juice will be heading into your house... The long of the short of it is that the grid and our consumer electronics where never designed with the threat of an acute EMP, So who knows what will happen. My guess is that the farther you are away from the epicenter the less the damage there will be. There are countless other factors like incidental shielding, Coil cross section size and orientation relative to the direction of travel of the EMP wave to name a few. Next would be solid state electronics While they are very sensitive to EM radiation they have very small cross sections which make them very easy to shield (ever wonder why computer cases are metal?) The "Faraday Cabinet" is a great idea. The theory is that EMP will induce an electrical current within the metal itself, in simple terms this will absorb that part of the wave and it will severely weaken the wave within the "Cabnet/Cage" (they also neatly store stuff) As an additional layer of protection would to unscrew or disconnect the antennas of radio's, and if you really want to get nuts, disconnect the low voltage side of any power sources within any electronic devices. Unplugging things is a really good idea, as well as disconnecting as much electronics from other electronics as possible. The good news is that any sizable EMP attack on the US would be difficult. It would need to be delivered by air and detonated at VERY high altitude to effect the whole country. It would also need to be very powerful, That device would be nuclear in nature, and probably very difficult to build. Not to mention that "Nuc fuel" is tough to come by, let alone the types of scientific minds and equipment needed to implement it. I would be more concerned with a conventional nuclear attack... Ryan

[@ClearAdventure]

evangelon2 Great comment, thanks!

[@m.b.g.2235]

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[@wokest118]

it's all futility.

[@kcookish]

wow, BPearthwatch, just realized it, listening to your voice......

[@MrDSpicer]

NICE.....

[@buggymak]

Great channel.i will build a summer house in containers i'll think i solve my problems with the faraday cage.

[@metzenw100]

Awesome video. Thanks for the information.

[@Danaman117]

Biggest waste of power ever, inverter's..

[@manbeastx69]

As always I love to watch your videos. Thank you for posting and please keep on doing them.