I Built A Military EMP Gun! (New Method）
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I don't know why, but I love EMPs and EMP generators. In the last few years, I've showed you how to build all kinds of EMP generators. But there are a few methods which we haven't tested yet. And I don't mean EMPs generated by a nuclear bomb or a flux compression generator. There is another method ;)
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Countdown - Alexander Nakarada
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00:00 Intro
00:36 The Method
02:02 Create your own PCB's
02:48 How does it work?
03:52 The new Generator
04:17 Overview
06:00 First Epic Test
07:08 Mobile Phone killer?
07:27 detecting the EMP
07:49 Epic Pictures
08:29 Outro - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Excellent video Leon, this build was super fascinating! Now I kinda want to make a flux compression generator...
Thank you Bro!!! Haha yes, would be very interesting! But first I need the 50kV 0.5uF cap ;)
@@Teslaundmehr You might already know this, but it looks like you could get around one hundred 400V/47uF capacitors on eBay for $25 USD. Put in series, that could be a cheap way to get a 40kV/0.47uF capacitor bank! Even buying from Mouser or Digikey, it looks like you could get away with such a bank for around $100. Something to consider!
@@LabCoatz_Science That is actually a good idea, I have 200x 400V and I think 82uF or something. The only problem would be the High Inductance as well as the resistance. But I should definitely try it out!
Yes you can cause those vaxxed with Graphene Oxide to stroke out on command
Is that his name Leon?
Hello.... I've been experimenting with exploding wires for about 10 years. My current (no pun intended) setup uses a 100 uF/4KV oil-filled capacitor. The kinetic energy during discharge is about 800 joules which produces a very bright and very loud discharge, similar to a gunshot or large firework. I live within a residential neighborhood, and so I must attenuate the sound as much as possible so that my neighbors won't call the police thinking someone was shot! I recently got hold of an old satellite TV dish which I plan to use as a focused EMP generator. If I can excite an LC circuit at the focal point, I believe that I'll be able to transmit an EMP pulse several meters (maybe wishful thinking!). I'll let you know how it works after I build and test it. I love playing (safely) with this stuff!
Oh, by the way, PLEASE make sure that you have plenty of ventilation while vaporizing metal wires especially wires made of lead or other toxic metals. Breathing metal vapor is VERY bad for your health! Thanks.
Hey,
thank you for your answer, that sounds very interesting! Please let me know about your results! And yes, you are right. It's very toxic. I only vaporize lead free solder ;D
This. All metals are toxic if inhaled in vapor form. Especially aluminum. It's well known to cause a variety of serious health issues. Play safe!
Not to discourage you, but we have discharged 40kv into different coils from 1-10 turns and had a pop can inside it. The actual transferred magnetic energy was just about able to deform the can ,nothing more. Even if you would be able to have a fully resonant circuit, all you would create is a good ole sparc gap transmitter. The microwave dish will do nothing to focus the energy it would need to be vastly bigger since the main energy of an EMP is between DC and 100Mhz, a wavelength of 3m and up.
Definitely he needs more inductance
Hi, what do you think would have happened, if Leon had arranged the exploding wire in the form of a coil?
"it's not necessary, but looks cool"
You know you're building something awesome and doing it right when you get to say that!
I fell down the DIY EMP hole a few years back, but never knew of the exploding wire method.
Great video, i enjoy your content!
Thanks bro!!
So, basically you are just shorting the capacitor... What if attach a coil and use the emf to destroy stuff? I mean.. It would be fun ig
Yes, that would also be very interesting! At a voltage of 1.8kV more efficient than wire Explosion I guess...
short it through a pancake coil to keep a flat-ish field front?
Teach me
in my best beavis voice, fire fire fire
Would it be good for taking out spying drones? I feel like we need that to protect our homes these days. Shotguns can be dangerous, not so bad with bird shot but still dangerous, while a directed emp weapon with a range of 150ft or so would be completely safe to human life
I think it would be worth trying different thicknesses of wire as well. It is possible that the reason you are not getting a very strong EMP is because the wire is blowing too quickly, so it does not have time to establish a really high current (and thus high magnetic flux) before it is interrupted and collapses. I suspect there is probably a "sweet spot" for wire thickness and materials that will maximize the EMP output in this setup, which also likely depends on capacitor size, inductance, etc.
It would probably also be worth actually measuring the capacitor voltage before and after to see how much of the energy from the capacitor is actually being used when it fires (this would require disconnecting your power supply before firing the gun, and just measuring the capacitor voltage directly (you can use the discharge resistors as a voltage divider and tap into them to get a measurable scaled-down voltage reflecting the actual capacitor voltage)).
The silver wire exploding that glowing green was gorgeous!!! I have experimented with HV for a long time and I still get nervous around MOT's. Stay Safe My Friend...Good Job!!!
Yees man, looks like aurora borealis ;) I agree, mots are not a toy and I have big respect while working with them. An Isolation Transformer is a good Solution!! Thanks Brother, you too!
You must be terrified of a HID light then.
lol, I used to do this all the time testing Thyratrons, 40kv and 2x 20uf (40uf total) capacitor discharged through a second thyratron that switches the full energy to the wire within micro seconds, faster than a spark gap. There was never any "usable" energy for an EMP recorded during my time of testing (10 years doing it up to 5/6 times a day) The first thyratron has to fire in the primary site when it detects the arc in the secondary. To do this, the capacitor is fully charged and then disconnected from the source. Those oil filled capacitors can hold that charge for a year without bleeding down. They are about 3ft high, 6 inches deep and 20 inches wide, weight around 100lbs. The power supply is used in a 100kw transmitter running at 40kv plate voltage. and the Thyratrons original function is to short the HV if there is an arc detected on the line that feeds the tube in order to protect the tube and remove the energy available from the supply. 2 of them working in tandem are fast enough to protect a tube that would cost close to USD 150K . We only tested the functuon of the tyratron not the circuit so we dumped the condensator energy into thin wires and created basically the same as they used to do in old flash bulbs for cameras in the 60s and 70s only our wires were only a few inches long. I have been as close as a foot away from the wire behind plexi glass with all kind of sensitive equipment and never had a problem. We measure energies over a vast frequency range from about .5hz to 1Ghz. Btw, your parabolic mirror is only for show, it doesn't do crap at the frequencies the main energy wave is produced. It will do a little above about 1ghz, but the amount of energy produced at those frequencies is minuscule even in our setup. The noise we produced, well lets say it is quite loud and can scare the bejeezus out of some unsuspecting people even a few hundred feet away. Sadly, high power thyratrons are rarely used anymore as modern low energy power supplies are protected differently.
Thanks for telling your story, sounds very interesting!!!
Voltage and amperage are crucial in generating the pulse .Also you have a conductor running across the reflector re absorbing the energy being created it will produce counter emf into your rectifier bank
Thanks for the Information!!
@@Teslaundmehr run the 2 leads out the center of the reflector in parallel with a coil of wire between the 2 posts .you will have to adjust how far out the leads must be to propagate the wave front .there must be no conductors of any kind infront of the focal plane other than the filament to be vaporized
@@carlubambi5541 you will never harness enough energy. because the available pulse has such a wide frequency range and your coil only sees a small sliver of it.
@@germanjohn5626 .Always wondered how frequency would affect the pulse .Unfortunately only DC is used and there is no way to modulate the dC pulse either the pulse is positive or negative that's it .When using a Tesla coil to generate an emp,Or a tazer it's different you are using an alternating energy pulse .
@@germanjohn5626 It's true ,but every known device made out 8n the market today will 9noy be affected by specific frequency impulses You don't hit the right frequency the devices don't see an overload .It's funny how tela coils can take out loads of electronics and at the same time some electronics it totally immune to its impulse
That first pull of the switch was hilarious! 💥 Great video and channel.
I got a cap bank made from old soviet oil capacitors. They are from old radar equipment and had an initial rating of 10kV and 0.5uF. A friend replaced the oil for me and they are now tested to 110kV but you have to submerge them in oil for that. I only use mine up to about 80kV. Any more and it jumps over between the contacts. I never charged the cap bank that high though... 30kV is already loud enough to make your ears ring with ear pros on and you feel the shockwave. The cap bank has currently 3.5uF i think... works well for exploding 0.2mm wire. I never tried any other type of wire and all my cameras also still work but i could try it out again...
The easiest way to build one is a spiral line flux compresion generator. It does not use anything special, just a jelly roll capacitor with 8 to 20 extra turns in the middle well insulated as a spiral. It gets charged up and discharges with a fast switch like a spark gap. The current becomes a time compressed pulse of about 60nS because each turn halves the discharge time and multiplies the voltage by 2. Then have the discharge travel through a shredding element like one of those DTV antennas at the focal point of a dish and grounded through an inductor with all of it in transformer oil. The mode broadening by the antenna decreases the pulse time to less than 4nS 😲🤓😎❤
That sounds very interesting! Thanks for the explanation!
I used to think I was smart and knew cool shit? But them the Dunning-Krugger effect kicks in...... Like just now?
And it's at that moment that you realise you are not cool and you don't know shit!
This is criticism gladly accepted. May I come here every to remind myself from this day forward. Forever and ever Amen!
More Flashlamp than EMP but still cool. And I somehow like exploding wires with a capacitor 😁
Haha yes you're right 😂 But I will try to get the 50kV 0.5uf cap!😎
@@Teslaundmehr ka warum mir das gerade jetzt einfällt, aber: niederohmige Kohleschicht-Widerstände und diese dünnen Graphitminen für nachfüllbare Bleistifte 😉
Haste mal einen Draht in einem Glas Wasser explodieren lassen? Nichts besonderes oder? Mach das mit einem Kohleschicht-Widerstand (~1-10 Ohm) und das Glas platzt.
That was really fascinating tbh, thank you for sharing!
Thanks 😁
using a coil of wire instead to increase the em field, based on the em feild produced in those coil shrinking devices, and the lower end can cutters. both create a lot of EM that would just need to be directed.
Yes, and your 'mirror' didn't look very ferrous, also consider making a wave guide
I'm learning how to build one of these for the AI Wars that are coming up assassin Bots you know the whole takeover scenario
Well as a young electrician. I once was part of a rew that by accident t created ball lightning. All it took was two opposing 10 000 amp DC supplies and an oops on two wires. Also about 6000 volts . You can get the same effect with a submari e battery ... it is almost magical plasma churning about in a ball ...just floating hitting ground and gone ..Ah that few seconds of WTF will never be forgotten . Take care .
Awesome video!
Personally I want to build one of the EMP devices that works from collapsing a conductive cylinder thats between a magnetic field. Using a small explosion to collapse the cylinder to have a smaller area which the change in area causes an induced current and results in an emp.
Thanks!!! That sounds good, I guess that would be a small flux compression Generator?
@@Teslaundmehr yes! I believe that’s what it’s called. You probably have made a ton of videos on it before but for some reason the algorithm is just now showing me your channel for the first time.
I have a degree in physics, love Tesla and build real actual working Tesla Turbine Electric generators for a living… I’m literally your target demographic. what was YT waiting for? 🤭
Anyway, I could complain about the suggestion algo all day long, but for now I’m just going to go watch your other videos!
Share a few links if you have a few good ones that ya want to expedite my search process.
Again, love the channel! Keep up the good work!
@@Teslaundmehr I gotta brush up on my German so I can watch through all your videos, vielen dank!
Another thought, use that compact fluorescent bulb *AS* a helical antenna (for the operating frequency of your target), the current and magnetic field should go up as quickly as vaporizing a wire could make it go down (because plasma).
If the bulb survives, maybe it could be used in repeated pulsing mode!
The problem is that they are normally filled with mercury :(
@@Teslaundmehr true, even though the quantity seems small compared to all the other metal and metal oxide vapors you breathing from the wire vaporization (Seldom 100% pure Element)
I'm sure they're comments section on TH-cam we probably flame you for that one!!!
I'm sure you can get neon or helium or other gas discharge tubes without Mercury, just would they be available in a helical shape? A high intensity Xeon discharge tube intended as a pump for a pulse laser would fit the bill, but that might be too expensive...
You wouldn't happen to be friends with some glass blowers or maybe a guy with a good vacuum pump?
@@williamwilliamson1096 absolutely!!!
...glass blowing , custom gas mixtures, custom tube sizes and shapes, high voltage transformers, vacuum pumps...
Someone who makes custom neon signs would be the *ideal* person to partner with to make such a plasma antenna!
Hopefully you know someone who would be interested in doing any of this?
Straight out of the 2004 book "Electronic gadgets for the Evil genius" - First time I've seen it on TH-cam though. One of those real expensive kits from "Information Unlimited" (If I remember right).
Yes, I actually have the German book ;)
You could use a larger transformer, capacitor, and transmission cables and determine the emp by the thickness of the exploding wire.
Knew this was available if needed. Good for drones. Nice build.
I think the EMP needs a very short thick wire lead and a thick wire coil as well. The entire line from the condenser to the dish is a coil. Also, the capacitor must have a small ESR.
Großartig und dann noch unterschiedliche Materialien aus probiert 👍🏼
Danke dir, ja, ist wirklich sehr interessant, wie unterschiedlich die Explosionen aussehen ;)
Wow this was interesting. I've never seen this method before. When the magnetic field collapses and induces a high voltage it is capacitively coupled to the other end of the circuit even when the wire has melted so there is an RC time constant that will limit the max voltage you reach (not sure if I said that correctly lol). Maybe a higher voltage capacitor is all you need (what about the capacitor banks from a SGTC).
Also most of the electric field is near field radiation so I don't think it can spread far outside the wires when the magnetic field collapses.
These are just my thoughts. I really enjoyed this video
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I'm glad that you enjoyed the video ;)
@@Teslaundmehr You're welcome also well done for getting sponsored by JLC. I'm a big fan of your channel and have built my own tesla coil!
I'd not heard of the exploding wire method, excellent!
Thanks, in one of the next videos I will use a real pulse Cap ! (50kv)
use a multi stranded wire of different metals , as each metal "pops" it releases a emp .... the effect is multiple emps spread over a longer time period than one single wire based emp
I built a Van De Graaf generator couple months ago just for fun. It doesn't produce nearly the amount of power your EMP machine does, but it shuts off computer monitors nearby. I was quite surprised by this considering that the generator was poorly made and it was quite weak. It can only produce 1cm very skinny disappointing sparks. This would make it around 30kv. Despite its shortcomings, i was able to wreak havoc on computers. Watching your results makes me wonder that maybe it's not necessarily the wire exploding that produce the desired effect. My guess is that it lacks the high voltage or the surface area.
1cm arc in the air is more energy than a 1cm arc between 2 conductors
Hi Leon, this is an extremely insightful study - my question to yourself is what is the amount of power in (AMPERES) that the EMP Gun is pushing current?
In the 90s i came across a book that listed a lot of high voltage projects from a mini rail gun, wire exploder, and jacobs ladder and stuff like that. Its been a long time but they wanted to use about 300,000 volts and two giant capacitors for this projecr. I was a teen so i didnt understand most of it, the only thing i did knkw is that this would likely kill me if i ever thought of attempting it.
Anyway, i want to say they said the effective radius was something like 10 feet, and they also wanted to use 3mm wire no more than 2cm long.
Hey thats a very cool project! I was thinking to do it and found your video which is SUPERB. Thank you very much for sharing :)
I liked your design and its very helpful. But I was thinking that, for the parabolic antena to work, you should match the design to that of the wavelenght of the pulse. Diameter should be 20 times the lenght. Also I think the exploding wire should be at the focal point ;) but barely starting to think this out
Excellent, I've been needing one of these.....
hehe thanks!
tbh, this can be kicked into high gear using basic physics. if u use proper induction and set the phase to 90degrees, u will eventually get a proper phase shift. which will exponentially increase your voltage needed to create efficient emp wave to disrupt electronics
It'd be really great to see you do a collab with photoinduction, preferably by an offshore wind generation faculty with access to the main line to shore!
That way you're far enough away so you don't fry your neighbor's stuff, and it'd be a fun way to use up all those extra MWh we don't have the batteries to store yet!
Just don't get struck by lightning 😜🤦🤷😁😒
Will be interesting to see what you do next.
I will build a real one, I order a 50kv pulse Cap ;)
Suprised that you did not try graphite rods ie pencil lead the thin ones 0.3-0.5mm It has alot of cool/intresting uses. You should try a thyratron for less losses. Cool video keep up the good work!
Cheers!
Thanks! I will try it!!
Using a helical strobe tube may be self destructive but it will provide the coil discharge effect needed to produce a more effective pulse of EMP. As in any coil, there will be more magnetism produced with more turns. Watch yhe Oceans 11 movie, they had the right idea, discharging through a gas tube that was coiled around another. Both in reverse polarity to each other creates a huge push of the magnetic wave propagated like smashing objects together at high speed, the compression doubles the force. There is always a direction the feild propagates out each end of the coils so experiment with turning the core in relation to the reflector.☠🤯
That does look like the thing Doctor who built in the MacCoy years :). Actually I think it was for the same thing - to knock out Dalek systems in the fictional version.
I could get a real view from such a wire explosion setup 40KV and 10µF. Let me tell you let alone the sound which is extreme even with earbuds the whole building shakes like on a medium earthquake. Oh I forgot the extreme light from such an aluminium wire even If you don´t stare at it. Really cool stuff the pulse capacitors are worth the money ;)
That sounds amazing!
I can't believe how much the plasma cloud colors totally match the elements
Yes, its amazing! I wich I have some other metals to test, maybe in one of the next videos ;)
especially copper [Cu], or? 😊😅😂
You should rent a surge tester, like Baker DX, or better yet get one with a power pack that goes up to 40 kV with considerable current.
Also a very good Idea!
I dumped the capacitor into a piece of wire wrapped around a piece of iron and fried simple devices. If you want to make plasma make a basic rail gun setup with the projectile having a low melting point but has enough properties to make the magnetic field.
i love the melancholic music in a military related project haha
I'm surprised you didn't dig up any of the work los Alamos labs did on helical flux compression generators. There's a wealth of practical knowledge there.
Awesome build!
Quite the friend you have to let you borrow that big capacitor! Hope you repaid with some beer or something, lol.
I look forward to your next video/project!
Yes youre right! I'm absolutely appreciate the friendship😁👍🏼
Thank you for your support bro!!! Hope you will like my next Videos!
@@Teslaundmehr I'm quite sure I will!
Interesting! I do have one concern, which is that you can see carbon on the nuts that clamp the wire. This probably isn't happening at this scale, but if you make it larger, make sure not to use galvanized hardware to ensure that you aren't vaporizing zinc. That shit's bad for you.
Thanks for the information!
The moment we can build these into mobile anti drone weapons, can't come soon enough
I think the metal ions in the vapor cloud might be absorbing much of the EM pulse and converting it into visible light and heat. I don't know how you would get around that with this design.
It was a very inspiring video wanted to try to build it myself and was wondering what are the specs on the fly back transformer, ZVS driver, and pulse capacitor? Just wanna make sure everything is compatible any help would be appreciated. Cause I had already built the dolphin flashlight one, but was very weak, but your videos look very promising.
Have you thought of using a high speed rotating magnetic field to focus the energy from the plasma discharge and make it into a beam? Kinda like a quasar, but on a tabletop!
there is no plasma involved, smh - this is a basic capacitor unload hack
@@willyd61 ?
my point is there is no plasma involved with this setup.
@@willyd61 right, what I’m trying to say is it’d be sweet if there were.
Im wondering why you used that kind of reflector, will it really work with those frequencies?
Your clapped out old S8/S9 looks just like my old one lmao, the things go forever but im glad i upgraded
Low frequency EMP like you have made will not damage Electronics. The LF will not couple enough Energy into Electronics
"Unfortunately, the mobile phone still works." LOL! Truely an engineering geek!
Keep at it. One day we will all be saying "Amazing how well it works."
I was waiting for your video
Thats good bro ;)
You might not have made an effective EMP (principal is fine, just too low a voltage) but I bet you had a lot of fun blowing up wire. I had some "definatly not" pulse rated electrolytics that I would charge up to 1800V, and they would explode wires amongst other things with quite a loud report, so much so that on one occasion the police arrived to issue a cease and desist on "lighting fireworks" :) Thankfully I did not need to surrender the device, and just packed it away for camping trips where the noise might only scare wildlife that got too close to our campsite (i.e. to raid our food) :)
You're right, blowing up wires is definitely a lot of fun! Your story is very cool ;)
4:15 i think you can build one with the help of PET-A foil.
But kind of huge in that case.
I have been saving microwave parts for 10 years waiting for this video
i mean as a kid i would vut a powercord and connect just a strand of it to another powecord with a switch and would blow up wired like that for fun, ir id use a bit of aluminum foil wich made some nice sparks
About 45 acrylic sheet caps, 100x100 cm, each 3 mm thick, in parallel, will give you 0.5 μF, 50 KV. That's a few hundred pounds.
Thank you for explaining.
Thanks for watching!
Hi Leon, I am subscribed to your channel and am interested in your videos, which of your projects could I use to disturb my neighbor's loud speakers who always has the volume very loud?
Thank you.
Absolut supergeile Bilder hast du da ab 7:50 👍
Danke dir ;)
Please do a follow up and put alloys or contaminated/doped wires in to try make a better supernova 👍
Nifty ! .... there are of course countless ways to do this .... I'd think It ought to be quite possible to DIY an EMP that WILL take out a smartphone from yards away.
Thanks! Yes, you're right! I think the difficulty is to focus the EMP.
@@Teslaundmehr Though I can't say I recall ever seeing such a thing. Sounds like a job for Tech Ingredients or one of the many other great EE/DIY/engineering etc. channels out there.
Then make it fit in a backpack, with a small wire to a switch in your hand...
Leon, I think you are approaching this the wrong way. For example, you have a spark gap in the antenna (the fuse wire after it blows) in series with another spark gap. Think how much energy is wasted in the second spark gap. Do you really need it?
I don't see why you would need the fuse wire. You could simply replace it with a normal spark gap. You would initiate the discharge with your mechanical high voltage pull-switch.
You might also investigate whether a NEON POWER SUPPLY might be useful. Available from Amazon and eBay, these cost 42 GBP. The input voltage is 230V ac and the output is rated up to 10 kV ac. They are intended for continuous operation.
Also you can obtain "High Voltage Pulse Generator Coil" modules for less than 10 GBP. I think they work on the principle of the Tesla coil.
you probably could get better output and range if you used amicrowave transmitter
Yes for Sure! ;)
I remember reading something about this kind of idea, but doesn't the wire being exploded have to be part of a magnetic coil? (The idea was to have an energized strong electromagnet short out or shunt in some fashion.) Not sure how you could work that out on this kind of setup?
Yes you are correct with the key word being the wire being exploded... I don't think he got the correct information about how this works.
Electronic, amazing and enjoyable
Thanks 😊
excited 😍😍for new video😋
u r looking handsom in this suit😁
Thanks ;)
@@Teslaundmehr u r welcome😁
you shoul use a ccoper metal plate and the electricity shoul be changed the frecuency i dont remember if the lower frecuency or the hight frecuency travel longer distances but they use for a devide for library speaker that travels a like laser diode led so the explosion by the spark in the concave cooper disk and the frecuency should make it travel longer distances and combined with hight voltages very hight combined with magnetism like microweave cooper chamber inside the microwaeve kitchen device
This is so cool!
What are the applications of this device?
Nice video, thanks.
Destroying Vehicles haha ;) Thanks!
Some r new to learn explain components value name for easy to make.U r excellent.
nice video, also impressive bang! Just out of curiosity from where are you in Germany?
Thank you, Northern Germany ;)
@@Teslaundmehr cool i visited Hamburg once many years ago
Does it work for invisibility capes …transporter device kits
Is your oscilloscope still working... no? Well your EMP generator has worked successfully.
Very cool!!
Thanks!
I know someone with an engineer degree who made one of these with ease
It works up to 7 .2 feet away a more powered full generator .. should make 10 feet mo problem
at least this is basically a reusable diy filament strobe like those disposable "flashcubes" used in vintage cameras
"Military EMP" unable to stop a phone sitting on it 😂
Very cool
Thanks!
*EMP Gun?* If something electronic has been hit by an EMP blast, is it damaged forever or will it eventually revert back to working normally?
That depends on how susceptible it is to power surges and magnetic fields. Most chips or anything that requires you to be cautious about static discharge will likely be irreversibly damaged. Though you may get lucky and it attenuates to a filter circuit or capacitor in the device that can absorb it.
"unfortunately the phone still works" Kills me lolol
Very nice👍
would it be stronger if done in a vacuum? Maybe try exploding an old-school tungsten filament bulb.
hmm I think the effect would be the same...Why did you think so?
Now if that capacitor was much larger and the wire much longer, and that wire was wrapped around a shaped charge, you would really have something.
Is there a way that I can build a small EMP device that can destroy a LED street light that is preventing me from seeing stars from my yard, something that I can raise on a wooden pole so that it is close to the street light so that it fries its electronics?
Is there a method to get it actually strong enough to disable electronics? I mean you can probably make it stronger by experimenting a bit,but won't get it strong enough to disable electronics.
Make a helix antenna for Wi-Fi frequencies, Wrap the wire around a fluorescent tube of the right diameter, insulate the wire from the terminals of the bulb .
Achieving the highest 'instantaneous' current is the most important parameter.
And take it a step further and make a phased array out of them!!!!
And let's see what happens when you aim it at your Wi-Fi router
haha that sounds very interesting!
You need to elaborate more on what is going on here? I'm interested. Please sir can you explain a little more in depth for the rest of us who are probably intelligent enough to piece it together, with a bit more info? 😁
I'm saying no need to dumb it down pre-school like, just explain a bit more about your theory?...... That seems a lot like you've tested and confirmed that theory already? 😁
@@Jarmezrockswhat I was talking about is based on three things. 1) you can use a fluorescent tube as an antenna because plasma is a conductor. (Very noisy and inefficient if you try it, I'm only guessing the reason for that is low current of a typical transmitter and the noise from driving the plasma, but it also could have something to do with #3 and math that's beyond me)
#2) a vaporizing wire is a plasma!.(that's why they add so-called "quenching" gases in glass fuses) since the principal of operation hope the vaporizing wire to create broadband noise involves a nearly instantaneous change in magnetic field due to sudden termination of current, but because the vaporizing wire creates a plasma channel for a short period of time, the current doesn't immediately cut off it actually starts to peak and then drop off slower as plasma conducts current. It's still very quick though.
#3) conduction in plasma is *inversely* proportional to current, that means that it works the opposite of a wire. In a wire makes your current goes up so does the resistance limiting the peak amount of current that can pass, that's why you can have your space heater heater filament just sit there and glow, the design temperature and current your space heater takes is a balance point between the increasing rate of increase in resistance and decreasing rate of current draw.
BUT
In a plasma, it works just the opposite, the more current your passing the lower the resistance becomes. The rate of current passing increases exponentially! (The effect might not be good for conventional antennas, see comment under #1)
*My* *theory* is that the rate of change of the increase in current in a contained plasma will be greater than the rate of change of the drop off of current of a vaporizing wire, creating more of the abrupt change in magnetic field.
4) in such a small setup you need an antenna and/or tuning. Reason why it's because that limited energy is spread out across all frequencies of the spectrum, much like a spark gap transmitter. Unless he collects enough capacitors compete with the military , styropryro or photonicinduction he's not going to be able to get enough energy into the airwaves that a Target device could be sensitive to and become fried.
I know just using a helical type antenna isn't going to make laser like precision in directivity or in how narrow a frequency it will transmit in, but it will certainly help.
An antenna might help it resonate at the antennas resonant frequency, it should if the speed of light is fast enough that it can bounce back and forth a few times before the capacitor is discharged , and I would bet it is. I'd have to do the math to tell you how many times.
5) the helical antenna,
Easy to build it's just a coil, online calculators are available for dimensions, the size of the compact fluorescent is pretty close to microwave frequencies, and considering the width of the tube it should be reasonably wideband without putting a signal across the entire spectrum.
6) my first idea of wrapping a helical around a straight fluorescent tube was because not only is that about the right size for the microwave range in a helical. I was thinking how those can and coin crusher electromagnetic pressure devices work by inducing an equal and opposite Force via induction in the can or coin. So *my* *theory* became if an equal and opposite current is induced in a plasma within the antenna it too will begin to transmit, the plasma would probably get compressed in a -complimentary- -morphology- , sorry, same shape shifted 1/2 wavelength, in both time and space and that would cause a *reinforcing* transmission
*essentially* *doubling* *the* *power* !
I couldn't go all the way down to preschool level, high school is usually enough anyway without sounding condescending. Probably would have taken twice as many words too, and all day for me to formulate how to word it. (I remember most people only being able to understand me when I was talking in front of my 5-year-old daughter and I was trying not to be rude to her)
I did assume a few things like you knew how an antenna works for instance, if not let me know.
I also have ideas about how to set it up like a tec laser to create an ion channel for long range conduction much like an open air Wakefield laser. I'll leave you to look those up.
I built a tec N2 laser in high school, and there's plenty of TH-cam videos of people who've also built them.
As for a Wakefield accelerators, I can only dream of understanding that math before I die.
But hopefully, in my retirement, I'll figure out how to simulate ball lightning, before I go senile, and yeah I'll document it on TH-cam if I do.
Cool
Why not use an inductance coil on the exploding wire circuit to further boost the voltage?
Because than the frequency of the oscillating circuit than drops to much.
@@Teslaundmehr Hrmm.
Should be a way to compensate, if you're trading amps for volts.
Chuck Norris got one of these as a gift, in case he needs reanimation. He uses it to light his cigars.
haha :D
Have you ever built a bucket capacitor? I think it would be much less expensive and work with higher voltages.....
guy online built one, said its good for 14kv at around 12 f
dont know why but i think this could be useful in photography too for those who like doing it the really old way.
Instead of just using a simple wire, use a small coil. Like 20...100 Windings of thin, enameled copper wire. As you say in your video, you got stray inductance everywhere. If you have a small inductance in the parabolic mirror, you concentrate the flux there. Oh, and never fire an EMP in your laboratory. What if it works? It will fuck up all your Equipment! Have at least 10 m security distance to any valuable equipment. And consider your neighbours too.
At work I do occasionally EMV and ESD tests with way less energy than in your setup. And I regularly waste not only the units under test, but also other equipment :^)
Nice video anyway.
Thanks! The problem is when we use a Coil that the resonant frequency of the system is pretty low. Because of this the wavelength is very long. Hard to focus etc. What do you think about this?
@@Teslaundmehr The Coil should still explode, like the simple wire! You don't get the low frequencies then. Ideal setup would work like this:
1. Spark Gap ignites
2. Current starts to flow (LC-circiuit)
3. the energy from the capacitor moves to the magnetic field of the coil
4. just on top of the first square wave of the oszillation (first current maximum) the coil vaporizes and shortens itself
Then it works more like a explosively pumped flux compression generator, just you are omitting the explosives and use only energy stored in the capacitor.
Try something like a filament of steel wool, maybe isolated with a thin coat of lacquer. Steel wool like it is used in the kitchen is pretty cool, since you can solder copper wire to the ends of a filament and it is very cheap - so no problem if you have to change the coil after every shot. Also, if your coil is from steel, it will have a significant higher inductance due to the ferromagnetism. Just think of it like the windings and the core are the same.
The amount of metal you can vaporize with the energy stored in the capacitor is limited. So the coil can't become super big or else it will not vaporize due to a much too large thermal capacity. There is some experimenting (or calculating) necessary to find an optimal coil. After seeing your video I would guess 10 cm of steel wool filament are no problem, maybe you are even able to blow up a whole meter. Which would give you a considerable coil of some µH when wound around a toothpick or a pen (remove the winding body when you are done and fixate the coil either with lacquer, thread or fishing line).
Would really like to see you try and if it works. But as said above, be careful with your laboratory! I don't really know how much energy you have stored in your capacitor, I assume something around 1 kJ. If you just get an EMP of 10 J (1% efficiency) I would expect it to be very harmful to any of your equipment.
Always wanted to try this out myself - but as you say, those capacitors are very pricy. And buying one for 1000 € just to wreck my laboratory kind of kept me from trying...
Leon pulls twine rope and ends up being transported to the year 35,000 where he discovers that using twine rope was the problem.
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Haha that could be the Problem ;D
What if you discharge that capacitor into the magnetron tube of the microwave oven, that the transformer came out of?
For this we need a pulse magnetron, but that is possible!
How did you make the pictures at the end of the Video?
Hey, I use a ND1000 filter and an exposure time of 4 seconds ;)
@@Teslaundmehr thanks! Which cam did you use?
@@Phoenixfisch I use a canon eos 90D for everything ;)
how can you be certain that your emp is contained where you need it ? I think it would prefer getting out where the inductance is higher.
Hey,
so normally (when you have a big Cap 50kv 0.5uF) you turn the exploding wire into a small coil. You know what I mean? (round about 10-20 turns). This coil than explodes. We than have a kind of exploding inductor. Haha maybe I have to mention that in the video ;)
@@Teslaundmehr nice ! Have you thought of using a small torroidal core ? I know it will blow up but it may increase inductance where you need it ?