[CodeToad]

Not even a microprocessor will be affected. There simply isn’t enough EMF generated by EMP to create enough energy to harm anything that small. Inductance is the name of the game here and EMP just doesn’t provide enough energy to induce high enough currents in such short wires to do damage. Nearby Lightening bolts generate more force and we don’t all freak out about those and we recover just fine from those bolts that do strike things like power lines.

[JRandomFreeper]

EMP just doesn’t provide enough energy to induce high enough currents in such short wires to do damage.

Back in the '60s, the 19 inch wire in GE televisions leading to the volume pot did a great job of picking up 2 meter AM.

Lots of complaints about that.

You must be new to electricity. After the tubes and 25 lb transformers and stuff.

/johnny

[tacticalogic]

Not even a microprocessor will be affected. There simply isn’t enough EMF generated by EMP to create enough energy to harm anything that small. Inductance is the name of the game here and EMP just doesn’t provide enough energy to induce high enough currents in such short wires to do damage. Nearby Lightening bolts generate more force and we don’t all freak out about those and we recover just fine from those bolts that do strike things like power lines.

I think the most likely scenario is going to be voltage induced through the windings in the power supply transformers and possed on to the circuit boards from there.

[Nowhere Man]

Not even a microprocessor will be affected. There simply isn’t enough EMF generated by EMP to create enough energy to harm anything that small. Inductance is the name of the game here and EMP just doesn’t provide enough energy to induce high enough currents in such short wires to do damage. Nearby Lightening bolts generate more force and we don’t all freak out about those and we recover just fine from those bolts that do strike things like power lines.

I know there were times when the space shuttle flew through the lower end of the Van Allen Radiation Belts in the Southern Hemisphere where it did disrupt some of the laptops aboard but after they orbited out of there, they rebooted just fine.