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I just obtained a "bug out " bike,an old Triumph Cub, complete with off road tires and a heightened suspension. whats the best way to shield the coil from EMP? anyone?

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Your tin foil hat?





JK:23_1_22:

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You don't need to. Points and coils are way too heavy duty to be affected by an EMP. It's those damned computer chips that can be a problem, or things in your house that are connected to those long wires outside that will absorb all that energy. That's where the problems lie

s

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park it in a garage to keep the fallout off of it.

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how much trouble is it to remove the coil ?
make a small faraday cage next to the bike and put the coil inside

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EMP waves are approximately 3 ft in length. Unless your coil or the chassis it is connected too has 3ft of conductive surface length or more you will not be impacted by EMP. As it was pointed out, the coil is not that sensitive of a part in that it doesn't contain sensitive electronics.

Coils are not that expensive, why not just get a spare and place it in a custom built faradays cage? Cheapest method would be too wrap a cardboard box with overlapping tin foil. The foil will absorb and EMP effect and the cardboard will insulate it's contents. Since your box would be less than 3ft in dimension it shouldn't conduct an EMP wave unless it was touching a larger conductive surface like a metal shelf. A simple solution to avoid contact conduction would be to place the wrapped box within another cardboard box.

Dave

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Lucas electrical circuits are not affected by EMP. An electrical system has to actually work to be affected.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
BTW here's a product ya might want in your tool kit:

Have you inadvertently let the smoke out of the wires on your classic British car?(also works on motorbikes) This, then, is the solution to your problem!
Here is presented for your perusal one Lucas Replacement Wiring Harness Smoke kit, P/N 530433, along with the very rare Churchill Tool 18G548BS adapter tube and metering valve. These kits were supplied surreptitiously to Lucas factory technicians as a trouble-shooting and repair aid for the rectification of chronic electrical problems on a plethora of British cars. The smoke is metered, through the fuse box, into the circuit which has released it's original smoke until the leak is located and repaired. The affected circuit is then rectified and the replacement smoke re-introduced. An advantage over the cheap repro smoke kits currently available is the exceptionally rare Churchill metering valve and fuse box adapter. It enables the intrepid and highly skilled British Car Technician to meter the precise amount of genuine Lucas smoke required by the circuit.
Unlike the cheap, far-eastern replacement DIYsmoke offered by the "usual suppliers", this kit includes a filter to ensure that all the smoke is of consistent size, It has been our experience in our shop that the reproduction Taiwanese smoke is often "lumpy", which will cause excessive resistance in our finely-engineered British harnesses and components. This is often the cause of failure in the repro electrical parts currently available, causing much consternation and misplaced cursing of the big three suppliers.
These kits have long been the secret weapon of the "Ultimate Authorities" in the trade, and this may be the last one available. Be forewarned, though, that it is not applicable to any British vehicle built after the discontinuing of bullet connectors, so you Range Rover types are still on your own...
This Genuine Factory Authorized kit contains enough smoke to recharge the entire window circuit on a 420 Jaguar, and my dear friend and advisor George Wolf of British Auto Specialty assures me that he can replace ALL the smoke in a W&F Barrett All-Weather Invalid Car(147 CC) with enough left over to test a whole box of Wind-Tone horns for escaped smoke. How much more of an endorsement do you need?
More, you say? Well, I once let the smoke out of the overdrive wiring on my friend Roger Hankey's TR3B, and was able to drive over 200 miles home from The Roadster Factory Summer Party by carefully introducing smoke into the failed circuit WITHOUT even properly repairing the leak. Another friend, Richard Stephenson, was able to repair the cooling fan circuit of his Series 1 E-type by merely replacing a fuse and injecting a small quantity of smoke back into the wires. So there!
So, if you're troubled by lost smoke, bid early and bid often! Thanks for looking!

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Nice....

mts...damnit.