How I Made an EMP Generator

I made a short-range electromagnetic pulse jammer that can temporarily disable electronics.
EMP Case File:
www.thingivers...
Parts List:
-High Voltage Transformer: www.amazon.com...
-Recharge Circuit: www.amazon.com...
-3.7 Volt LiPo Battery
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Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

[@schizo4725]

Wow, this old video from last year blew up a little bit out of nowhere, I'm really grateful to you all who are watching. Though, I have been getting quite a lot of comments and I wanted to address a couple topics regarding them. Firstly, I've been getting some comments about it's classification as an EMP generator, so is it an EMP? By the definition of an EMP to my knowledge, it certainly is. The device creates a high voltage in pulse waveform which the coil emits as a brief electromagnetic field. This occurs every time the circuit sparks, so it basically fires many weak EMPs in rapid succession, with some of those pulses being strong enough to mess with electronics. Given that, sure it's a shitty EMP, but it still counts as one. Still, enough of you brought it up that it's made me question my classification of it as such. Maybe I really am just wrong about what technically constitutes an EMP, but I'd appreciate some sources on that if you have them. Second, the toroidal ferrite core. I mentioned it very briefly, but I am and have always been aware that it weakens the strength of my EMP. Here's a story to help understand that decision: A few years ago when I was in high school, our small robotics club was adamant on bringing in some new members. Since we only had one robot to show off at the time, in a desperate attempt to have more showmanship in our interest meeting, they asked me to show off some random stuff I made at the time, one of those being an EMP (we're not gonna talk more about me carrying around an EMP device in high school). It had almost the exact same design and components as this one, just less well-put together and with the worst coil of all time (coils crossing over, sparks flying off of them). During our meeting presentation, as soon as I turned it on for our interested classmates from what I judged to be a safe distance (about 2 meters away), I returned to my fellow club members. The robot which had been working fine 2 seconds prior had suddenly shut down and we couldn't get it back on. My friend turned to me and said, "Jason, I think you knocked out Jeffery." From what I remember too, when we eventually did, the startup display was glitching and the program files had all apparently been wiped. It should be damn near impossible that my spark generator EMP could've even touched our robot from over 6 feet away, but our team was never able to think of another possibility. Realistically, while also unlikely, it might've been some kind of software glitch paired with one hell of a case of unlikely coincidence (hard to say since I'm not the one who programmed it). Still, after that experience, I've always been more paranoid working with pulsed electromagnetic fields since. If there is even a 0.01% chance that my EMP managed to reach that robot, I was not about to take that same chance with my only good camera. Therefore, I reduced the strength of the EMP by designing it with a coil that would have a much higher impedance. My goal with this video was to educate and demonstrate, not to achieve the most powerful device I could to end up on a government watchlist (I might save that goal for later. Dear NSA, that's a joke.)

[@mrjoelpt]

Hi the link of the file is not available on thingiverse, I wanted to use the case without the emp part

[@schizo4725]

I’ll upload a new one soon

[@cado8431]

@@schizo4725 I'm a new viewer of this channel but would like to applaud your work on this video. It was concise and interesting. I would like to see one done with a larger scale, say, to disable drones and autonomous robots... for educational reasons.

[@StephenEspitia]

@@schizo4725 open to a private chat?

[@stuff9283]

Interesting how KZbin is just now spitting this out to everyone

[@HyperspacePirate]

The ferrite core of your toroidal coil is causing the overwhelming majority of the magnetic flux lines to stay contained within it rather than radiating out into space. This device would be dramatically more effective if you used a large diameter coil with no core.

[@Dalkson]

new HyperspacePirate video?

[@infestus5657]

Of course you are here :D

[@ocanehauncanedichieilcane]

Waiting for your video on this ;)

[@GoingtoHecq]

Thank you lol. Next step, aiming it.

[@northrocks]

I agree. what he said😅

[@RATTLESNAKE209]

There's a lot of jokes I would like to make, but I really want to keep being able to travel by plane.

[@deletdis6173]

😂

[@sethrenville798]

If your jokes are unusual, they can't be plane

[@Tigermaki357]

@@sethrenville798 🤣

[@ptrkmr]

Bros posting “How to: felony edition” for all us and I respect that

[@williamdunn4811]

Hey man. When the AI goes skynet you'll be wishing you had a robot taser

[@HalloGaming]

​@@williamdunn4811people need to learn how AI actually works and stop blaming all their problems on it.

[@originzz]

@@williamdunn4811hey man, when the conservatives and royalists come marching, you'll wish you brought your human taser

[@alexmighty693]

need this for the new york subway for people with their bluetooth speakers.

[@michaelorton9887]

Need it for a smart ass kid my boss es son video game

[@yz250ftony]

There are more effective alternatives online if you look in the right place

[@ITpanda]

No just jam the Bluetooth frequency range. Still illegal just far less so and less likely to end up with free room and board.

[@eivorrudjyek9083]

Illegal

[@LandonStrauss-hc1sc]

Sounds like domestic terrorism, you could disrupt sensitive electronic equipment in the subway genius. Put down the crack pipe.

[@The_Loreseeker]

This looks cool, like an item you'd see in a video game - I'm imagining a survival-horror protagonist who needs one of these to get past a murderbot.

[@igxniisan6996]

I'm fully aware that you added the toroidal core to trap most of the flux inside and only the leakage flux to do the job.. but hear me out, you can actually make it "directional" by putting the coil inside a copper or aluminium pipe, basically something non ferromagnetic.. also keep a considerable amount of air gap between the inner wall of the metal pipe and the coil. This is to improve the shielding in radial direction.. Now next up you can improve the coil structure, instead of making it toroidal which will trap most of the flux inside weakening the em wave.. you can just make it "horse shoe" shaped with the two poles open and facing forward.. that way, a short range but more powerful em wave can be generated.. Note that if u do like this then you'll need two separate copper/aluminium shielding pipes for directing the em wave forward. That's all I can think of. Thanks for reading your build is great though.. good work👍

[@Speed001]

We getting put on a watch list with this one 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@YourNavajoBro]

My buzzed brain read that as suicide list, potato potatoe

[@RetroCube]

@@YourNavajoBroNot wrong tho getting put in jail for most/all your life may as well be ending yourself xD

[@HalloGaming]

​@YourNavajoBro somebody's trying to get taken off the watch list 💀

[@deletdis6173]

​@@YourNavajoBrogo Suns 🏀

[@aurelia8028]

Oh shut up

[@Theballonist]

Pretty sure this is highly illegal and I love it. I remember trying to find plans for cell phone jammers and learning that it would be illegal to walk around with one in public. Similar reasons for this project. Keep spreading that knowledge :-)

[@jdlives8992]

it’s not illegal if you don’t get . . . .

[@foximacentauri7891]

This is very low power, and therefore not illegal. In your microwave there is a 1000x more powerful device than this.

[@SirZechs77]

​@@foximacentauri7891 Also a good reason for not disassembling your microwave unless you 100% know what you're doing

[@janthran]

@@SirZechs77 really all you need to watch out for is the HV capacitor

[@aaron-gz]

​@@janthranwhat's this cylinder thingy-

[@fortyforty-seven1061]

A robot lobotomy taser, incredible!

[@danielbecker7483]

you wanna mean robotomy?

[@qdr1293]

@@danielbecker7483 gold.

[@rudeandrotteninside]

I used to like vaping because the devices look so cool but this is way cooler than that now that I quit

[@cannawithkendall1872]

This is marketable. Since everybody is carrying around an AI device these days I kind of want to carry around a small EMP device that shuts off the camera and they're listening equipment when they're near me because I have a right to not be tracked.

[@christopherstrebe1403]

Is it possible to make one strong enough I can use it from my room to fry car radios when their bass vibrates the whole neighborhood?

[@Shademastermcc]

Out here asking the important questions.

[@heph4estus570]

Bro, this is pretty cool. I thought making EMP is quite hard. This might be quite weak , but it proves that the concept works. Great work!, +1 subscriber for you!

[@noone1138]

Do you think you could make a list for all the parts you need. This is dope 👌

[@schizo4725]

Done in the description! I found the switches at home and the Induction coil was taken from a random fried circuit I had.

[@noone1138]

@@schizo4725 Cool. Thanks for the information Man!!!

[@Noah-qe8sw]

@@schizo4725 great vid but the thingiverse link does not work

[@MichaelOfRohan]

It has like 6 parts, including the wire lmao

[@sw6188]

@@MichaelOfRohan has like?

[@thethoughtfield]

the coil around the toroid is concentrating the magnetic field, that is what´s making it inefficient. you want the field to spread outwards, the ferrite toroid keeps it inwards

[@-DaisukiDayo]

Hey you sound like you know what you're talking about. How did he use a transformer (a component that only uses AC current) with a battery (that to my knowledge, provides DC current)?

[@thethoughtfield]

@@-DaisukiDayo that's simple, transformers work with fluctuations of current, which in turn create a fluctuating magnetic field. if you momentarily discharge a capacitor on a coil or transformer primary coil, that creates a fast growing current momentarily that also will decrease fast, all this creates a fast fluctuating magnetic field, which will induce high currents and tensions on other conductors.

[@-DaisukiDayo]

@@thethoughtfield sooooo transformers + batteries is ok?

[@serinfel]

Cool project, great vid, loved the music. You had me at the 3D printed box. 👍

[@reverentgarbage6677]

WE DISABLING THEM PIGEONS WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🐦🐦🐦🐦

[@theakiwar9118]

If I wasn’t on a watchlist by now, I definitely am now

[@rune552]

“I promise mom, it’s for a school project”

[@Just_Kys]

But you never actually showed the “how” part 🤨

[@evanbarlow5534]

That would probably result in its removal lol

[@MunchieProductions-vx4kb]

Learn to read buddy it said " how I made " not "how to make

[@HelamanGile]

The FCC wants to know your location 😅

[@ffemtx4]

So does the ATF.

[@tizio5103]

This is great! Please use your device to test anti-EMP bags, pouches, and cases.

[@neuroether]

What if the taser was a billion volts? Can you make a directional antenna for beaming the EMP?

[@toby9848]

Ik this was three months ago but I'll try to explain: A portable tazzing unit avaliable to the public without a license cannot reach the maximum of what you are asking because it it hard to make a circuit that can produce that voltage without being highly illegal. Even if it wasn't it would require license and training, not even factoring in a mental evaluation to see if you can be trusted with it. The emp produce by a theoretical emp device alone would be more illegal than the tazer, using it would cost alot of fines to the end user due to endangerment of the public. Majority of that endangerment could kill someone with an insulin pump, pacemaker, or even other technology they need to live. To add to it, no such unit could produce the required billion volts of which you are demanding.

[@LuisAlvarez-vv4ls]

Cam I get in on this

[@samueldavies646]

The taser isn't a billion volts

[@Ubermenschgaming_]

​@@toby9848"Crime bad" 🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@hellopomelo2]

Getting to a billion volts is kinda nuts, but i can tell you how to beam the energy: a horn antenna or offset feed parabolic dish

[@Stormii_x11]

I made a prototype of something like this. Good to know it would have worked.

[@CCNAandCybersecurity]

Very Cool, I don't plan on making it because I'd have the luck to break my devices with it.

[@Enter54623]

Ah yes, this will come in handy in the technodystopia

[@ZebbMassiv]

Yeah, I'm not taking you to a casino

[@anon2479-rz3qp]

lol that's not an emp, that's just short range continuous induction. you have to create and/or destroy the source of the EM field extremely fast to cause what can be called an EMP. usually this is done by literally blowing stuff up with high explosives. you just built a slightly overpowered mini radio that constantly changes the electromagnetic fields. EMPs don't do that, they only have one pulse, or maybe two, but one that does the main damage and is several orders of magnitude stronger than the pulse it uses to create the EM field.

[@dubfather521]

Pretty sure what he made emits electromagnetic pulses bud.

[@greenaum]

@@dubfather521 Yes but so does your grandad's pacemaker, it's not an EMP device though. OP is right.

[@harms123]

No, it is an emp device. The device is not running continous due to the spark gap. Per definition an emp device is just a device that creates electromagnetic pulses, which this does.

[@harms123]

@@greenaum The purpose is what differentiates a pacemaker and an emp device. An emp device sole purpose is to create electromagnetic pulses that interfere with electronics.

[@Darkstar327]

1:53 hidden stories theme

[@LifeLongArtist]

Everyday, I stray closer to the police breaking down my door with my history

[@KozelPraiseGOELRO]

Dude, you must be our technician when _the moment_ comes.

[@GamingVlogBoxStudios]

Hey Schizo! I just wanna let you know, I've successfully built my own! Was able to reset my watch and lock the oven door haha. Thanks for the tutorial man! (I have no evil intentions, just science)

[@schizo4725]

Glad to hear you had success!

[@GamingVlogBoxStudios]

@@schizo4725 Everything went well, except my mom's oven. it went kinda berserk. had to reset it using the fuse box

[@tylerdurdin8069]

Wouldn't the best Emp device be just a magnetron inside a wave guide with one end open on the wave guide?

[@darrellcook8253]

Parts you can scalp ftom a microwave oven. The magnetron and magnets.

[@TicTac-g7m]

Just take the door off the microwave oven and over-ride the door closure safety switch? Maybe not very directional though, and not frequency tunable (stuck at around 2.4 Ghz)

[@nunyabiz1712]

Gotta love those cold solder joints.

[@advance64bro]

Let’s prank grandpa!

[@Johny40Se7en]

Make a very powerful one which also has a few metres range and is as lightweight as possible, then we'll talk 😜

[@daede-qz3xf]

Maybe you can use the high voltage rectifier circuit board in the electric mosquito swatter.

[@dookiepost]

I wish my spare time projects were nearly as cool

[@CastleRaccon]

Could you make one for destroying hidden cameras, like the ones people put in hotels or restrooms. Then starting a company based on destroying hidden cameras

[@Blank-n7c]

Amazing electromagnetic pulse generator

[@_reddruid_]

A good defense against machines in the future

[@Kero-zc5tc]

Will this work on a pacemaker through walls from at least 10 m away? just curious

[@seanhoyt497]

Don't forget to have insurance too...

[@infestus5657]

Can you test its effects on radio frequencies?

[@dodgersfnshepard8673]

Would you have any recommendations on books or pdf to bring my knowledge up to speed on projects like this

[@theskrript_]

Good job, dude! You deserve far more attention

[@GRAVEAUDIO]

"schizo" ah, we are in good hands here boys

[@Mr.Phoreskin]

The fluke meter just got violated so hard😵

[@IonNight]

Some people are smart, and some think they need inserts in a box to make the lid removeable. I have made a ton of holes and never used insert, just make the holes undersized..

[@Adamtherealboss]

This reminds me of that time I tased some LCD clocks and they stopped working.

[@doogs5393]

You basically made a single stage Marx bank that induces a that coil, pretty neat

[@mtrest4]

Karl Marx would be proud.

[@markb1911]

@@mtrest4made me laugh

[@kormannn1]

Thanks schizo

[@hp.deskjet.2755e]

I have no idea who yt thinks i am but im invested into this shi

[@dand1486]

neat bbq lighter, no quarts requires, just lp gas and a rack of ribs

[@walthodgson5780]

I thought of this the other day when I was watching a car chase on the freeway. Some way to upscale this strong enough to knock out a car and small enough to be deployable by a cop.

[@flat-earther]

hi walthodgson, have you become a flat earther yet? If not I suggest viewing the 13 part series _what on earth happened_ in my about to learn how the earth is not a globe

[@TicTac-g7m]

It's already been invented years ago but difficult to use. A car body shields a lot, so it needs to go underneath using a remote control mini vehicle of sorts, which then directs the EMP upwards from underneath the car. Works, but field testing on real streets and real cars proved that 2 people are needed, that it's very difficult to steer to get underneath a fleeing vehicle, it might affect other vehicles, too easy to get crushed by the wheels of the fleeing vehicle, could easily miss with no time to pick it up (thus making it easy to steal), etc etc. In short... impractical in the real world.

[@bubbahottep8644]

Hope StyroPyro doesn't see this.

[@Fo6-mj2hg]

Bout to start a real life need for speed race

[@MichaelOfRohan]

You didnt emphasize the possibility of damage to the jammed electronics.

[@hackmedia7755]

I'm interested if it's strong enough to power an x-ray tube.

[@antholito]

Congrats, now you and everyone that interacts with this video is on a watchlist 😂

[@Elia04Ita]

Go go gadget, electronic warfare concealed carry

[@EddieDiggz]

Am I on a list for watching this now?

[@TheBlackFoxMaster]

Я делал плазменную зажигалку ещё несколько лет назад.

[@stevewilliams91]

Could you please post the wiring diagram?

[@GamingVlogBoxStudios]

Also what kind of casing have you put around the voltage transformer?

[@CarpetDunky]

Thank you I’ve been trying to understand in my little mind how this works

[@FoochieA]

I need to make this in a shape of a sonic screwdriver

[@jeloabmelak9783]

where did you learn electronics

[@d.w.9485]

Dang your voice made me do a double take. It's so deep now.

[@garbageman3992]

how does that thing not destroy its own charging circuit if its not wrapped in a metal cage or metal box?

[@neuthral]

an air core on the torus would be stronger i think the iron core eats most of the magnetic field?

[@georgemichelakis1202]

Beautiful work my friend.

[@DMTT100]

Why do the devices light back up after the pulsing? How can you make them permanently destroyed with a pulse?

[@schizo4725]

A.) because the field only causes a temporary disturbance to the circuit. More sensitive electronics may suffer permanent damage. B.) by building a much more powerful, legally questionable EMP with an extensive amount of money and knowledge of electric circuitry. Personally, if I wanted to fulfill your second question, I’d go with a hammer.

[@Karaon]

Nice, does it work on AED?

[@panama-canada]

Put one on the cell tower.

[@themonkeymang]

perfect for the upcoming robot war. until they develop armor against it.

[@AndreLuis-yh3dj]

Coloca lo em uma angulo da pra ler as medidas de tensao que foram induzidas. Em outro angulo da pra reiniciar o aparelho medidor. E no medidor digital wasion de energia eletrica? Qual seria o comportamento.

[@RyouConcord]

hmmm how to hurt robo cops (disable drones / dog-like walking things that surveil you)

[@MichelleHouseDev]

Felt like something fiction came true

[@shahminasrawi3751]

how do i inrease the effective range?

[@Yaktob]

read description, or look it up

[@MasterObi-m2b]

Once i made a pulse transformer but it was sooo powerfull it destroyed my dads expensive computer from 7meters away and a 20cm thick concrate wall with its EMP

[@ImGonnaShitYourPants]

i just got drunk and soldered a copper wire coil to a electric fly swatter that i had dismantled to try and make more powerful. woke up with a broken gameboy, calculator, and a mess.

[@darixenous_shadowscale]

It's a good thing it wont work on most things you try to use it on. :) In order for a proper EMP device to work, it has to actually be the same frequency of the circuit / device your trying to apply it to. And most important things are shielded to begin with. So if you don't know the EXACT FREQUENCY of a device, your EMP unit is useless. Now there is a form of EMP that doesn't care about frequencies, but you'd never be able to build it without having both a massive warehouse, and the permission of DARPA.

[@DanielSteinbacher-i6l]

How could I (theoreticly) make it stronger? So that I could (for example) turn off security cameras from long range?

[@schizo4725]

“Long range” is pretty vague but even at a few meters away, it would require a bulky design and enormous amount of power. Plus, you can’t precisely direct magnetic waves as beams. You’d be better off just physically destroying it from a distance.

[@LucaAugment]

capture cylder drone reverse enginer lol

[@pontiacg445]

You made an ignition coil portable, whoopie.

[@lukepav6533]

Yeah. Now for the dog and pony show.

[@-tweeomoz-1786]

Spy sappin' mah sentry

[@franke5073]

do you have also a Guide for how to make that maybe very useful tool? do you maybe also know someone in Deutschland who is Electrician ?

[@saadraza747]

electro magnegnetic pulse

[@Psycandy]

10 years from now cops will use this to stop cars

[@JohnnyCantTube]

did I miss the schematic drawing somewhere? with specific detail on spark gap length and the Toroid wind and inductance but it looks like a big series circuit on the output of the Marx Generator module. I have a Marx 'gun' with a 12x12mm microswitch that keeps burning out although its on the input side of the marx gen. in series with an 18650 (likely instantaneous current issues)

[@leosantos5456]

maybe you already solved your issue, but here it is: microswitches can't handle high currents. Use a relay (ideally a transistor or n-mosfet) as a switch instead. If using mosfet be sure the operate within the specs and use adequate protections about back-emf.

[@Impossible_Fishy]

Made an emp on accident, was just playinhg with a hv generator and my headphones kept disconnecting lol

[@182mcg1]

Use camera flashlight module

[@theethans898]

I’m gonna make one with 4s lipo 10000mah 100c, maybe use 4! 59 Kwatt?

[@Dudeitzmimi]

The coil is too small to cause any major issues but be careful. It's never fun when you piss off hams or the FCC

[@54nnu]

bro made the thing that killed shinzo abe

[@balintfarago5652]

That just a cheap high voltage inverter from e-bay and a coil...

[@toby9848]

Yes it is! And to add to it? The emp produced is only a textbook emp that is not illegal! So it works as advertised, just not as expected.

[@aspeckofconsciousness]

^^Slave to the law...

[@prototype9000]

use aircore transformer and capacitor

[@wollbart5169]

I want to draw my BP's like you they are awesome

[@TheRatDefence]

Nice song selection in the background, if only you could play nirvana songs over the build montage without being copyright-striked.