Is this now valid?

Close the charge switch to charge the capacitor and then open the charge switch, close the fire switch to emit an EMP and then open the fire switch to shut off the system.

 

The circuit is what you posted in post #38 previously and is correct.

 

Thanks Alex for letting me know.

Now that I understand the fundamentals, I am going to take a break and come back to this. The circuits will be much more complex. I am going to build in safety switches, a voltimeter, some way to drain the capacitor, insulation. But I think first I am going to build a prototype using harmless current to figure out how best to optimise the shape of the coil through experimenting, and to figure out how I can direct the EMP through vector shielding. Then I can figure out how I will design the final apparatus.

I've got more important things to worry about at the moment so I will come back to this.

Twenty years and we're finally rolling!

 

Is this now valid?

Close the charge switch to charge the capacitor and then open the charge switch, close the fire switch to emit an EMP and then open the fire switch to shut off the system.

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Gee, looks an awful lot like what was suggested all the way back in Post #20.

 

Gee, looks an awful lot like what was suggested all the way back in Post #20.

Except my one can be understood by a normal person because I have better communication skills than you. And mine is safer than yours because mine has a charge switch which allows the thing to be switched off whereas yours constantly recharges the capacitor.

Owned

 

Does anyone have experience doing this? I'm wondering a ball park size capacitor I would need to fry my old laptop at 10 metres.

 

Does anyone have experience doing this? I'm wondering a ball park size capacitor I would need to fry my old laptop at 10 metres.

Yes. No. Owned.

 

I'm wondering a ball park size capacitor I would need to fry my old laptop at 10 metres.

Just wondering, doesn't this violate rule #6 in the terms of the site?

 

It will when I'm using a large capacitor, high amperage wire and switches.

You are missing the knowledge of the basic components.
2uF or 5000F charged to whatever volts thise caps can support, when you short them you get limited amps.
And when you dump that charge into a coil you gonna get non-linear limited amps.

And to boot, all that said, that's not how emp is created. It needs to be many magnitudes more amps and many magnitudes faster.

Now, it may be that you are confused between emp and just magnetic density (Tesla and gauss are terms to learn). Just to make a big magnetic field you actually don't need a lot of amps, you only need the right coil to make big mag field.

At least you'll learn some along the way in the failing experiment.

 

Except my one can be understood by a normal person because I have better communication skills than you. And mine is safer than yours because mine has a charge switch which allows the thing to be switched off whereas yours constantly recharges the capacitor.

Yes, poorly drawn ascii schematics are definitely easier to understand than those drawn well with a good schematic editor.

I'm wondering a ball park size capacitor I would need to fry my old laptop at 10 metres.

Try 100F , 10KV and 0000AWG wire.

 

Except my one can be understood by a normal person because I have better communication skills than you. And mine is safer than yours because mine has a charge switch which allows the thing to be switched off whereas yours constantly recharges the capacitor.

Owned

And you still can't read a schematic. There is nothing in mine that constantly recharges the capacitor -- when not in use, leave the switch connected to the coil, which serves to short it out when not in use. Yours allows both switches to be closed at the same time, probably burning out your coil, perhaps even starting a fire or, at the very least, presenting a very heavy load on your source since you need a very low resistance coil to get any kind of a decent EMP out of it. With mine, that can't happen because the source can never be connected directly to the coil.

 

Just wondering, doesn't this violate rule #6 in the terms of the site?

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Doesn't look like a violation, at least as long as it's his laptop he's trying to fry.

It's akin to someone trying to make a circuit to make a capacitor explode for experimental or research purposes.

 

And you still can't read a schematic. There is nothing in mine that constantly recharges the capacitor -- when not in use, leave the switch connected to the coil, which serves to short it out when not in use. Yours allows both switches to be closed at the same time, probably burning out your coil, perhaps even starting a fire or, at the very least, presenting a very heavy load on your source since you need a very low resistance coil to get any kind of a decent EMP out of it. With mine, that can't happen because the source can never be connected directly to the coil.

I told you from the start I couldn't understand your diagrams but you insisted on pushing squiggles onto me which is why you didn't to teach me anything.

 

Doesn't look like a violation, at least as long as it's his laptop he's trying to fry.

So this will be a directed beam? If he were to succeed it would be more than just his computer that would be destroyed, since he wants it to work over a 10 meter range. Succeeding is little or no chance, but giving information to any one wanting to destroy something by electronic means is a violation when the rule is taken literally.

 

I agree, it doesn't matter whose laptop they intend to destroy.

Of course, the other side of the coin is, the OP is never going to pull it off.

 

I take it you guys are the local snitches/arm chair lawyers around here.

Let's ban the TV show Myth Busters as well.

 

I take it you guys are the local snitches/arm chair lawyers around here.

Let's ban the TV show Myth Busters as well.

Unlike you, Jamie and Adam knew what they were doing.

 

I take it you guys are the local snitches/arm chair lawyers around here.

Let's ban the TV show Myth Busters as well.

It's already been off the air for a while so I don't think either Jamie or Adam will care very much. Not quite sure why you are so butthurt. But hey, keep taking shots at people and see what that gets you.

 

I suspect this will cost more than you could afford.

 

This just isn’t going to work but it could cause severe injury including burns and electrocution.

Without even a basic understanding of the relationship of voltage, current, and resistance as described by Ohm’s Law there is really no chance that a working EMP generator could be built.

If you research actual EMP generators at all you will find them much more complex than a power source, a capacitor, and a coil—and I am not talking about the safety enhancements mentioned.

What you are most likely to create, if anything at all other than smoke and personal injuries, is an electromagnet of unknown strength that will have no effect on anything not very local to it.

A directed energy device of any kind is a complex undertaking and you are missing some fundamental requirements to create an EMP, never mind your vague idea of how you might direct it.

It would help a lot if you‘d research existing, practical EMP devices (and I am not suggesting YouTube videos on how to make one). The nature and practical demands of a working device might dissuade you from your current attempt but at least it will show you that you need to understand more if you want to proceed.

If your complaint is that you can’t understand the sources, well, I suppose I consider the response to that self-evident. I won’t wish you general luck because I think everyone including you is better off if you find another interest to pursue but I do hope that you are not injured and don’t injure anyone else and for that you will need some luck, so narrowly good luck in avoiding that.