EMP-proof my P1000?

[OldToby]

In my continuing efforts to spend money on hobbies, I’m thinking of EMP-proofing my 2018 P1000 and wonder if anyone has thoughts. My initial thought is to identify all parts that would be fried/disabled by an EMP, get replacements for those parts, print hard-copy instructions for r/r, then stow everything in a Faraday cage. Has anyone thought this through and come up with a list of vulnerable parts?

 

[Adam490]

In my continuing efforts to spend money on hobbies, I’m thinking of EMP-proofing my 2018 P1000 and wonder if anyone has thoughts. My initial thought is to identify all parts that would be fried/disabled by an EMP, get replacements for those parts, print hard-copy instructions for r/r, then stow everything in a Faraday cage. Has anyone thought this through and come up with a list of vulnerable parts?

@100Acre lol

 

[HBarlow]

I'm wondering what EMP is.

 

[OldToby]

EMP is probably many things, but I was using it to refer to electromagnetic pulse.

 

[HBarlow]

Ahh. Thanks. I had a strange experience apparently caused by that phenomenon.

I had a new at the time '06 Dodge Ram-Cummins diesel dually and we were in Nashville at the winter home of the Grand Ol Opry for a performance of the Rockettes my wife wanted to see. It was just before Christmas and was an afternoon performance, clear and sunny but a little cold. We were in the theater for about two hours for the show. When we returned to the truck the electric door locks would not open with the remotes. I used my key to unlock and we got in the truck and sat down.

The starter would spin the engine with the key and the engine would start momentarily then shut down. It would not run. I tried it repeatedly without success and sat there wondering, "what the hell was going on?"

The radio had lost it's saved stations also. That gave me a clue.

Suspecting a scrambled computer I got out and removed the ground lead clamps on both batteries. I sat in the truck for about 15 minutes then reconnected the battery grounds and tried again.

The engine fired up as normal and everything was back to normal except we had to reprogram favorites into the radio.

I never knew but assumed a powerful radar in the area swept the truck and wiped computer memories. Dodge keys had and probably still have a code in the fob that the truck has to read or the truck would fire, start, and shut down immediately.

 

[100Acre]

An EMP or electromagnetic pulse is usually created by a line of sight nuclear device detonated in the upper atmosphere say above Nebraska or Kansas. Which would wipe out the entire electrical grid for the whole country. What it does is basically electrically charges the atmosphere and it is a trickle down effect causing widespread power outages and fries anything with a modern day computer chip. This can also be caused by the sun and what is called a CME or coronal mass ejection. This happened around I want to say something like 1859 and was known as the Carrington effect. The only thing that we have that was run on electricity was the telegraph wires and it fried many of the telegraph wires, it burned down some of the telegraph buildings and, caused many telegraph signal is for lack of better word to act out on their own so the things that we send SOS and all that stuff the little clicker things were just click away without anybody touching them.

 

[100Acre]

I am obviously no expert but if you have a way to park your pioneer 1000 inside a faraday cage or metal building that was sealed and may be grounded? Of course with the rubber tires it may not affect it if it was just in a steel building with no openings maybe?

 

[OldToby]

Unfortunately that’s not very practical for me, to build a big faraday cage. It is in a steel-sided shop with steel doors. So maybe that’s good enough.

 

[Ohio4x4]

Unfortunately that’s not very practical for me, to build a big faraday cage. It is in a steel-sided shop with steel doors. So maybe that’s good enough.

I saw these on YouTube a couple years ago. EMP & Lightning Protection for Vehicles (DC-12V-W)