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To: FastCoyote

How do coils, condensers, starter and alternator windings fare in an EMP?


81 posted on 12/27/2006 10:03:10 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

In the older vehicles, only the radio (and other installed electronics such as a radar detector) along with the diodes in the alternator would be affected. Why a magneto/generator ignition system would survive more readily than an alternator type system.


82 posted on 12/27/2006 10:56:41 PM PST by RadioAstronomer
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