Ferrous Metals For EMP Protection
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- I should have included a sheet of Copper as well in my demo as Copper does not shield either - virtually just as poorly as Aluminum.
Many "back yard engineers" use Aluminum or Copper in their gaskets for their EMP Shielding in Faraday Cages (see my Ammo Box and Trash/Paint Can videos).
Be aware of "suit wearing" guys in labs that will demonstrate their gaskets with Spectrum Analyzers and RF Power Meters, but they don't simulate the magnitude and EHF frequency aspects of Super EMPs. Such gaskets they sell have NO Ferrous properties and thus only shield the electrical part but not the magnetic part of EMPs... they look pretty, but not very effective.
I recommend Nickle Plated Steel Braid as both Nickle and Steel have magnetic shielding properties and Nickle is more resistant to rust. Steel Wool (not Stainless Steel Wool) is a low cost alternative, but it will rust over time and leave tiny pieces of Foriegn Object Debries (FOD) behind. If you do use Steel Wool, you will need to keep your Ammo Box Faraday Cage in a plastic Zip Lock bag with desiccant packs inside to absorb moisture. Also, the Steel Wool will break apart every time you open/close the box. This is why Steel Braid is better. If you write to me at my e-mail address at the end of the video, I can send you more info on EMP gaskets.
This video contains a brief demo on generating a rudimentary Electro-Magnetic Pulse, how shielding materials work, and a slide show afterwards that describes some aspects of EMPs, Electromagnetic Waves, and EMP Faraday Cage protection techniques. The experiment is nowhere near a real Weapons Grade EMP, but it serves as providing the basics without all the math. The experiment is simple enough to run at home with some basic electronic components.
Best viewed in 1080p.
See my other videos: "Paint Can Faraday Cage", "Trash Can Faraday Cage", and "Ammo Box Faraday Cage":
• Paint Can Faraday Cage
• Trash Can Faraday Cage
• Ammo Box Faraday Cage
If Sara O'Connor had known that "secret" (of the steel) she never had used those wasted bags of snacks made with "aluminum" where she hid her phone, thinking Mr Arnold *Terminator* would have stopped sending her odd and annoying messages "from outer space"... Now I know how to improve my shields! (Thanks!)
@Nomine_Pater Too funny, but true!
Thank you for these videos. I've also watched Dr. Author Bradley's (EMPDoctor) videos where he has made his own tests using aluminum foil. It seems, as long as you make good seal, to fully attenuate these high voltage, high frequency pulses around an environment, items insulated inside the environment will not be effected. But, I like the steel enclosure better than aluminum. I also like EMP Shield's approach by using the pulse as power to shunt to ground the pulse picked up on an electrical system in about 1 nanosecond, before that pulse can effect sensitive components in electronics in that same electrical system. They did field and injection tests by Keystone Compliance and exceeded D.O.D.'s required specs for U.S. Military use. Here is a link to their testing that you may enjoy looking at. But, these tests were performed to 50KV/meter. They did do "off book" testing at 90KV/meter, up to 250A, with no degradation to product after 40 repeated EMP simulation repeated tests. Pretty cool! www.empshield.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/EMP_Shield_Military_Testing_16_March_2019_Public2.pdf
I wish I knew engineering like you do. I could really benafit from one of those back packs for my mother. Maybe slightly modified. She has asthma and I’m seriously worried for if this war actually pops off…
Thanks for the reply. High frequency AC is RF and it is not intuitive, we mostly understand the world from a DC perspective, so many engineers help spread the knowledge. We all can't be engineers, lets say you may be an accountant, and thus you would be able to help me with finance. Back Packs? Are you talking about my portable respirator? That is a different video. It might help with asthma but I would not recommend mine because it is not clinically tested... there may be similar things out there somewhere. The thing is I did make my activated charcoal filters on the cheap. They worked well with my Backpack Respirator. That might be something you can research.
I wish I knew what healed me from that... I received too many things but, as far as I remember, when I received a treatment with cow bilis (Pectobiliar) with hot water, I stopped from coughing. Get natural!
@@Nomine_Pater Most medicine from the 20th century is from "medicine men" from tribes all over the wthem. All natural. Many are ancient cures. The pharmaceutical companies just refined tyem.
Wouldn’t it work better if the aluminum foil was completely wrapped around it and sealed? To make the aluminum more effective? Just curious. If I could make a complete steel box I would
No, that is the popular misconception, Aluminum does not block enough EMP at high frequencies, so some will get through even if you sealed your item in a welded Aluminum box. I could have done my experment by putting the Reed Switch in an Aluminum box and in a Steel box... the result would be the same. The Aluminum box would not block an EMP from any direction.
What is really scary is this:
The US has many goverment sites that tell you to simply wrap your devices in Aluminum foil. What they don't tell you is that Aluminum is 10 times less effective than Steel foil for Weapons EMP, but Steel foil is a very uncommon item. So they just tell the public something simple that "seems" to make sense and is inexpensive, and thus "pacify" the public and keep us at rest. This is not a conspiracy theory, it makes sense, there is little chance that more than 0.1% of the US population will survive a nuclear war, so why tell us to take the more involved, more expensive, more effective approach when just wrapping it in Aluminum may "help" but it won't help humans in the end. Also, if there are any gaps in the foil, and there will be, the extremely high frequencies from an EMP will get right through the gaps (as I show in my slides).
Only government officials and the very elite will survive a nuclear war and the aftermath. You would have to live underground in a bunker (I have two videos on this) for at least a year. We are not talking about one bomb going off and then you can walk about the area a month or two later... we are talking 100's of bombs going off all over the world, the fallout will rain down for months if not years. Not to mention an enemy will set off random EMP bombs to catch people off guard with their electronic devices out of their EMP proof containers. Basically giving people a false sense of security... and then...bam! Everything is destroyed. It's a shell game approach.
I am 60 now and have decided not to ride out WWIII nuclear war... I will watch it with an iced cold beer.
I am not trying to scare you, but the US is very, very, poorly prepared for the "people" to survive, but the president and most DC politicians and high rank military officers will. Elon Musk certainly has the means to build a 10+ million underground bunker to keep him alive for years, but I don't think he has given it much thought.
Be safe, and pray. Even if you don't believe in a higher being, how could it hurt?
See my Paint Can Faraday Cage, it is the lowest cost solution. Next to that is the Trash Can Farady Cage which is good for bigger items. I am making a video on 5 Gal Paint Can Faraday Cages so be on the lookout for that. Oh, I am also going to post a video on what you should keep protected. Cell Phones are low on the list.
The cell towers will be knocked out in the first wave of EMPs and priority will be given to Washington DC and military bases for repairs. The satellites will be knocked out too so GPS won't work, the Internet will be down too, so searching/emails/texting/social media won't work. But I do recommend you keep a cell phone protected because you could store notes and contact info on it... any maybe have it on the outside chance you could use it for communications .
@@paulromsky9527 yes I have notes saved on my phone and some on my laptop. But I never counted on my phone after emp cause of the towers so I bought some 2 way GMRS/ham radios for me and my family to communicate with and have a few other little things protected in a metal ammo can like flash lights and stuff, and gotten together some other things that are not electronic that will help after everything goes down. So mostly I save stuff on my phone or even pictures and will protect it if I can. I also went a printed off a lot of information in case I can’t protect the phone or something happens I will have that and not have to rely on the internet
I got a metal ammo can, and a giant EMP cloth that I put my phone in and tried to call it and it didn’t get a signal so hopefully those are good enough. Just had to make sure the seal was good on it
@@paulromsky9527 oh yeah I know. I’m just trying to do what I can to help my family with inflation what it is. I obviously hope it doesn’t come to that but I honestly hope all of DC rots in raven rock when they go to the bunker…