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How do you test such a thing? Small nukes?
by superuser2 10y ago
How do you test such a thing? Small nukes?
- bhollan 10y agoAll it's measuring is for a voltage spike. The ones we had had a real input pin and a test input pin. You hook up an O'scope to the output, supply a one-shot signal to the test pin, and check to make sure the output did what it was supposed to in the allotted time.
- whoopdedo 10y agoLarge radio antennas can create electromagnetic pulses like what you'd get from a nuke blast. I lived not too far from a site that tested them[1][2]. Just before it was decommissioned there were a lot of news articles written about how they did the testing. I can't find any photos now, but they're out there somewhere. It's now a wildlife refuge.. [1]: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/woodbridge.htm http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/woodbridge.h... [2]: http://eservice.pwcgov.org/library/digitallibrary/hsdw/A_Folder/ArmyEMPSimulatorOp76-392/pdfs/armyEMPsimulatoropPropHistA76-0392.pdf http://eservice.pwcgov.org/library/digitallibrary/hsdw/A_Fol...