Unfortunately my home was hit by lightning. I lost all my TVs that were only internet TVs using Wi-Fi not hooked to cable. My wife's computer that was on Wi-Fi, my computer and a bunch of other miscellaneous items in the home and I have been battling with EMP shield for over a year now for their lightning protection guarantee. I have a statement from the electrician that it was definitely lightning damage. I've sent pictures of the install and they still keep hemming and Hong and won't honor the lightning protection guarantee. My only hope is that it will actually work for an EMP cuz it failed on the lightning. I will say it was a direct hit. It even caused a fire blew up the power distribution center my camper as well so it was a massive lightning strike. But that's where the $25,000 protection is supposed to come in and they have yet to honor anything. I'm not happy
Me too. I bought several, but the one of my pool pump offgris solar got hit by lightening. They denied mine because it wasn't installed by an licensed electrician (even though my son installs solar professionallly);and they said I needed a different emp shield version in it) nowhere on their website did I find a requirement to have a licensed electrician install it and mine was offgrid. I wanted to hope it works, but I'm not sure anymore.... good thing my house didn't get struck by lightning....or an actual emp to find all this out.
I was in the insurance business for 25 years and retiring since 2018. I can tell you and everyone that listen, don’t file the insurance claim unless you have no others alternative. Once you claimed it, your premium will increased higher than you want to pay. If you want to switch to other insurance company, the new company might decline your application or you will have to pay high premium. EMP Shield could be the cheapest investment that everyone can have and affordable! Good luck everyone
I purchased 3 EMP Sheilds. I put an EMP Shield on my breaker box, one on my Generac Transfer Switch, and one directly on my Generac Generator ignition switch. The fourth EMP Shield will go on my vehicle.
@@TOOLMANTIMSWORKSHOP the reason the same type of EMP Shield can be used for auto and Generac ignition switch is for the same type of EMP. Not sure if it is a EMP 1, 2, or 3 that travels through the air. Where some EMP travels through the power lines.
The three phases of an EMP are: E1, which is the largest spike but also only lasts a nanosecond. The E2 lasts about a microsecond and the E3 is the one that lasts the longest and permeates in air and can last up to a few hours depending on the magnitude and amplified pulse. It would also be lengthened if you were in the epicenter of the impact.
I would love to reverse engineer one of those things. I guess that little box holds within it some electronics and a condenser. I'll bet its parts only go for a few dollars.
I have a home and 2 cars EMP shielded. I also put items in faraday bags and cages. If the event does happen, the electrical surge will likely destroy household wiring. The EMP shield should protect that as well as all items plugged in within 250 feet of the device.
Save your money, just buy a standard whole house surge protector, they are required on new homes anyway. You may be spending a hundred or two for a label that says emp and I am not sure the emp shield would meet the nec requirement, it may or may not.
@@kenpeters9807 Ken, I honestly cannot say one way or another but I am not sure you can either. How would you or I really know, I am not sure the company that sells them really knows. It may just be marketing hype and I happen to think it is, all I am certain of is they look exactly the same from an external point of view and they are designed to the same job. I do not trust anything that really cannot be tested, I am certainly not going to waste money on a maybe. I will take my chances on the standard version and spend the extra cash elsewhere. I already have in point of fact.
@@charlescoffey9523 charles. It’s not marketing hype. I know this for a fact. Very extensive testing (EMPs can be lab created). I held a TS and was in Defense industry. In 80s and 90s we were already doing extensive EM creation, experimentation and testing. EMP Shield has extensive military contracts meeting extreme testing and proof requirements. If youre interested I will try to find something that tells you about the speed of EMPs (long since gone from my archives. Believe me, there is a definitive difference!
I'm a bit wary as far as protection against a military produced emp goes , but i could be interested in regard to a hobby of mine where a lightning strike is more than likely . My yacht has a 30 foot lighting conductor fitted , technically known as a mast . Actually it has two , but that's neither here nor there . A lightning strike which does happen from time to time so far to other people (touch wood i've managed to escape thus far) , can be particularly devastating to electrics and electronics . Mast head aerials would still suffer , but they are reasonably easy to replace , the expensive bits are below . There are other factors to take into consideration , but i could be persuaded on this one .
Hahaha Tool man Tim All I can think is tv show Home improvement Tim “The Tool Man “ Tayler When stuff always go wrong Very very funny TV show I watch when on TV back 1991
As a money guy I really appreciated you bringing up the importance of having your money in order and a rainy day fund before buying something like this.
As a money guy, I appreciated you bringing up the importance of having your money in order, that's why I purchased an EMP Shield because I lost over $4,000 in electronics due to a power surge. Glad my money is protected now.
By the time a fuse senses the over voltage , the damage is done and your electronics are fried. The EMP Shield senses and shunts in 500 trillionths of a second, which protects your devices. A standard surge protector and/or fast acting relay can not do that and therefore can’t handle a EMP. A EMP is 100x faster than a lightning strike. Let that sink in.
You do realize that an EMP will easily go through walls, right? A surge protector or fuse will probably keep the electricity from impacting your electronics in a normal situation. But your devices have already been directly hit, charged, and fried by the electromagnetic pulse itself. The only way to protect your whole house from an EMP is if you put a giant metal dome around it and coated the inner wall of the dome with rubber. (And if you were entirely self-sufficient when it came to power, and you kept it all within the dome and not touching the walls... Now, an EMP shield or fuse or surge protector, whatever, WILL likely protect against a coronal mass ejection, because CMEs have a much less broad electromagnetic frequency range than an EMP. A CME will fry your house's electrical system, but if you have a strong enough fuse, it will at least stop the electricity from getting into whatever is plugged into an outlet. Vehicles will be impacted, the entire power grid will be impacted, but if your phone or laptop isn't plugged into anything at that moment, it'll probably be just fine. You won't have electricity anymore though, and you probably shouldn't try to plug anything into any outlets anymore because you have no idea if a CME is still going or not. Btw it's not a good idea to try to use a generator either because it'll likely have a charge / be fried as well.
@@SilvexPhoto Long story short: A Faraday cage's first line of defense is redirecting the electricity, its second line of defense is making sure no electricity enters the container. Because no electricity is able to enter the container, any electronic device inside is safe. (As long as the container is closed) Now what is an "EMP Shield"? Well, it's a tiny metal box with a bunch of electronics directly inside of it, with wires coming out of it (at least as far as I can see). Not only will this do absolutely nothing to protect anything, it won't even be able to protect itself, it will simply break. 1. It isn't containing anything, nor is it physically covering anything up. Unless you had a giant metal dome around your house, or your walls were solid metal with wallpaper made of rubber, and no wiring actually inside the walls, well you're not protected against an EMP at all. 2. If it were somehow generating some kind of electrical frequency that could stabilize or nullify the (very wide range of) electromagnetic frequencies generated from an EMP, then the device itself would obviously require electricity. And given that it will likely need to be wired up to an outlet, and because EMPs obviously affect the power grid, it'll get wrecked before it can even do anything; and that's assuming it even can do anything. Not to mention, I can't think of a single frequency or force of nature that isn't physical that can stop such a wide range of electromagnetic frequencies, if it can somehow do this, good for it. But that would likely require some kind of extremely sophisticated system, and guzzle electricity like nobody's business, and that's only scratching the surface. For it to somehow be generating all these different electromagnetic frequencies that can supposedly stop the ones from an EMP, it would likely be generating the same ones from an EMP itself, making *IT* the threat. Not to mention, such a wide range of electrical frequencies being blasted into the air all the time. Even if these somehow weren't immediately harmful, they would more than likely be slowly breaking down everything electric around them, especially the device itself. It would also probably give people migraines, or it could *ATTRACT* lightning strikes given that it's constantly creating a charge in a bunch of different objects and surfaces. So I personally don't see any realistic way for such a device, like presented, to ever work as implied. Something like the device presented, but it actually works completely as intended? That would practically be magic, no way would it be publicly available, especially not for $300. I mean, what DOESN'T sound magical about a little box you plug into your wall and it blocks a WMD?
Dude, when you responded to the question what good does a “guarantee ” do if the economy collapses, then mention the $25 warranty, I laughed. Seriously, you dodged the question, then promoted a worthless guarantee if the economy collapsed. 😂
EMP Shields also protect against a 1. power surge and a 2. lightening strike. I had a power surge and it destroyed almost $4,000 in electronics. You are missing the point. Don't do anything for protection if it makes you feel better.
I purchased an EMP Shield for my solar controller. It totally discharged my batteries and damaged the controller forcing me to buy another. I'd NEVER advise someone to buy this thing as they do NOT stand behind their warranty. Incidentally, they have NOT adequately tested this thing so there's no proof that it will actually work.
That stinks. I actually was considering one for solar as I already have the Siemens for my whole house. So I'm assuming the company did not assist you regarding their warranty? What was their response?
@@stmcgarret They basically just ignored my complaint and called me concerning the negative comments that I was posting everywhere. They finally did give me a refund but deducted 20% and treated it like a restocking fee. I'd NEVER recommend this company to anyone. I bought a surge suppressor from the Midnite Solar people and put it on my controller which is also a Midnite controller. I've never had a problem since.
@@tekki2060 Thanks for your reply. That is terrible. I've looked into Midnight Solar but now am convinced they are the better company to go with. Best to you.
@@SimpleLivingForever I have a Midnite Classic 150 controller and SimpliPHI batteries. Everything is wired to a combiner box. I've got 2.4 kilowatts of solar panels and I'm going to put up my wind turbine this summer. So far everything has been working real well. Other than the EMP Shield issue I've had absolutely no problems and would recommend these products to anyone.
Use this coupon code to save $50 on your purchase of an EMP Shield www.empshield.com?coupon=toolmantim/
Unfortunately my home was hit by lightning. I lost all my TVs that were only internet TVs using Wi-Fi not hooked to cable. My wife's computer that was on Wi-Fi, my computer and a bunch of other miscellaneous items in the home and I have been battling with EMP shield for over a year now for their lightning protection guarantee. I have a statement from the electrician that it was definitely lightning damage. I've sent pictures of the install and they still keep hemming and Hong and won't honor the lightning protection guarantee. My only hope is that it will actually work for an EMP cuz it failed on the lightning. I will say it was a direct hit. It even caused a fire blew up the power distribution center my camper as well so it was a massive lightning strike. But that's where the $25,000 protection is supposed to come in and they have yet to honor anything. I'm not happy
Hint: It won't do shit for an actual EMP. Its literally a scam. As you've seen by them being a scammy company to you arelady.
Me too. I bought several, but the one of my pool pump offgris solar got hit by lightening. They denied mine because it wasn't installed by an licensed electrician (even though my son installs solar professionallly);and they said I needed a different emp shield version in it) nowhere on their website did I find a requirement to have a licensed electrician install it and mine was offgrid. I wanted to hope it works, but I'm not sure anymore.... good thing my house didn't get struck by lightning....or an actual emp to find all this out.
@@Djachq lol. its a scam either way
If there's an EMP...there ain't gonna be no insurance claims being filed.
Kind of.a clickbait teaser line but at least I didn't watch the whole thing.
I was in the insurance business for 25 years and retiring since 2018. I can tell you and everyone that listen, don’t file the insurance claim unless you have no others alternative. Once you claimed it, your premium will increased higher than you want to pay. If you want to switch to other insurance company, the new company might decline your application or you will have to pay high premium. EMP Shield could be the cheapest investment that everyone can have and affordable! Good luck everyone
Don't forget to get in shape, plenty of ammo and gun cleaners.
I purchased 3 EMP Sheilds. I put an EMP Shield on my breaker box, one on my Generac Transfer Switch, and one directly on my Generac Generator ignition switch. The fourth EMP Shield will go on my vehicle.
the first they sent me went on my house, and the next two I just bought will be going on our trucks, thanks for takign the time to comment
@@TOOLMANTIMSWORKSHOP the same type of EMP Shield that went on my Generac Generator ignition switch is also used for autos.
@@TOOLMANTIMSWORKSHOP the reason the same type of EMP Shield can be used for auto and Generac ignition switch is for the same type of EMP. Not sure if it is a EMP 1, 2, or 3 that travels through the air. Where some EMP travels through the power lines.
That makes sense thanks for sharing that
The three phases of an EMP are: E1, which is the largest spike but also only lasts a nanosecond. The E2 lasts about a microsecond and the E3 is the one that lasts the longest and permeates in air and can last up to a few hours depending on the magnitude and amplified pulse. It would also be lengthened if you were in the epicenter of the impact.
I would love to reverse engineer one of those things. I guess that little box holds within it some electronics and a condenser. I'll bet its parts only go for a few dollars.
I have a home and 2 cars EMP shielded. I also put items in faraday bags and cages. If the event does happen, the electrical surge will likely destroy household wiring. The EMP shield should protect that as well as all items plugged in within 250 feet of the device.
Glad to see someone thinks like we do. We have the whole house, solar and vehicle EMP Shields. Better safe than sorry.
Save your money, just buy a standard whole house surge protector, they are required on new homes anyway. You may be spending a hundred or two for a label that says emp and I am not sure the emp shield would meet the nec requirement, it may or may not.
Finally found a Siemens FS140 for $139, those Aholes on those prep-per sites were wanting $300 for them!🤬🤬
A surge pt]rotector is not fast enough. Better do your homework. The emp shield will act as a surge protector
@@kenpeters9807 Ken, I honestly cannot say one way or another but I am not sure you can either. How would you or I really know, I am not sure the company that sells them really knows. It may just be marketing hype and I happen to think it is, all I am certain of is they look exactly the same from an external point of view and they are designed to the same job. I do not trust anything that really cannot be tested, I am certainly not going to waste money on a maybe. I will take my chances on the standard version and spend the extra cash elsewhere. I already have in point of fact.
@@charlescoffey9523 charles. It’s not marketing hype. I know this for a fact. Very extensive testing (EMPs can be lab created). I held a TS and was in Defense industry. In 80s and 90s we were already doing extensive EM creation, experimentation and testing. EMP Shield has extensive military contracts meeting extreme testing and proof requirements. If youre interested I will try to find something that tells you about the speed of EMPs (long since gone from my archives. Believe me, there is a definitive difference!
I'm a bit wary as far as protection against a military produced emp goes , but i could be interested in regard to a hobby of mine where a lightning strike is more than likely . My yacht has a 30 foot lighting conductor fitted , technically known as a mast . Actually it has two , but that's neither here nor there . A lightning strike which does happen from time to time so far to other people (touch wood i've managed to escape thus far) , can be particularly devastating to electrics and electronics . Mast head aerials would still suffer , but they are reasonably easy to replace , the expensive bits are below . There are other factors to take into consideration , but i could be persuaded on this one .
If they have a $50 replacement guarantee, thats probably what it cost to make them.
New (other) CA electrical code requires surge protection at panel, not to that level though.
I'm still undecided emp shield or Siemens model.
Hahaha
Tool man Tim
All I can think is tv show
Home improvement
Tim “The Tool Man “ Tayler
When stuff always go wrong
Very very funny TV show I watch when on TV back 1991
Perfectly said. Hats off sir. The most common sense conversations on the Internet to date.
I bought one for my vehicle.
I purchased three units.
excellent video , thank you
I’m afraid of being broke. That’s why I work.
Can you do a comparison of emp shield vs defcon?? For cars.
Can I use an EMP Shield with a townhouse?
As a money guy I really appreciated you bringing up the importance of having your money in order and a rainy day fund before buying something like this.
As a money guy, I appreciated you bringing up the importance of having your money in order, that's why I purchased an EMP Shield because I lost over $4,000 in electronics due to a power surge. Glad my money is protected now.
Good video!
Thanks man I appreciate it
have EMP on my RV and solar
the mono sound is killing me xd
Emp yup I actually had my own I remember
Thank you
How is it different from a fuse, if the powers to much fuse burns out and saves your stuff that's what fuses are for.
By the time a fuse senses the over voltage , the damage is done and your electronics are fried. The EMP Shield senses and shunts in 500 trillionths of a second, which protects your devices. A standard surge protector and/or fast acting relay can not do that and therefore can’t handle a EMP. A EMP is 100x faster than a lightning strike. Let that sink in.
You do realize that an EMP will easily go through walls, right? A surge protector or fuse will probably keep the electricity from impacting your electronics in a normal situation. But your devices have already been directly hit, charged, and fried by the electromagnetic pulse itself. The only way to protect your whole house from an EMP is if you put a giant metal dome around it and coated the inner wall of the dome with rubber. (And if you were entirely self-sufficient when it came to power, and you kept it all within the dome and not touching the walls...
Now, an EMP shield or fuse or surge protector, whatever, WILL likely protect against a coronal mass ejection, because CMEs have a much less broad electromagnetic frequency range than an EMP.
A CME will fry your house's electrical system, but if you have a strong enough fuse, it will at least stop the electricity from getting into whatever is plugged into an outlet. Vehicles will be impacted, the entire power grid will be impacted, but if your phone or laptop isn't plugged into anything at that moment, it'll probably be just fine. You won't have electricity anymore though, and you probably shouldn't try to plug anything into any outlets anymore because you have no idea if a CME is still going or not. Btw it's not a good idea to try to use a generator either because it'll likely have a charge / be fried as well.
What is recommended?
What abit shielding from Direct Energy Weapons.. Affordable shielding for my car and btrailer.
Toilet paper?! Buy a bidet hose. Buy Crossword puzzle books
Thanks!
No sound, just video.
Plus EMP shield won't work. Scam
How do you know?
@@SilvexPhoto Long story short: A Faraday cage's first line of defense is redirecting the electricity, its second line of defense is making sure no electricity enters the container. Because no electricity is able to enter the container, any electronic device inside is safe. (As long as the container is closed)
Now what is an "EMP Shield"? Well, it's a tiny metal box with a bunch of electronics directly inside of it, with wires coming out of it (at least as far as I can see). Not only will this do absolutely nothing to protect anything, it won't even be able to protect itself, it will simply break.
1. It isn't containing anything, nor is it physically covering anything up. Unless you had a giant metal dome around your house, or your walls were solid metal with wallpaper made of rubber, and no wiring actually inside the walls, well you're not protected against an EMP at all.
2. If it were somehow generating some kind of electrical frequency that could stabilize or nullify the (very wide range of) electromagnetic frequencies generated from an EMP, then the device itself would obviously require electricity. And given that it will likely need to be wired up to an outlet, and because EMPs obviously affect the power grid, it'll get wrecked before it can even do anything; and that's assuming it even can do anything.
Not to mention, I can't think of a single frequency or force of nature that isn't physical that can stop such a wide range of electromagnetic frequencies, if it can somehow do this, good for it. But that would likely require some kind of extremely sophisticated system, and guzzle electricity like nobody's business, and that's only scratching the surface. For it to somehow be generating all these different electromagnetic frequencies that can supposedly stop the ones from an EMP, it would likely be generating the same ones from an EMP itself, making *IT* the threat.
Not to mention, such a wide range of electrical frequencies being blasted into the air all the time. Even if these somehow weren't immediately harmful, they would more than likely be slowly breaking down everything electric around them, especially the device itself. It would also probably give people migraines, or it could *ATTRACT* lightning strikes given that it's constantly creating a charge in a bunch of different objects and surfaces.
So I personally don't see any realistic way for such a device, like presented, to ever work as implied. Something like the device presented, but it actually works completely as intended? That would practically be magic, no way would it be publicly available, especially not for $300. I mean, what DOESN'T sound magical about a little box you plug into your wall and it blocks a WMD?
I WILL FEAR NO BEER.
ALL MY GUNS ARE GROUNDED.
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Dude, when you responded to the question what good does a “guarantee ” do if the economy collapses, then mention the $25 warranty, I laughed. Seriously, you dodged the question, then promoted a worthless guarantee if the economy collapsed. 😂
EMP Shields also protect against a 1. power surge and a 2. lightening strike. I had a power surge and it destroyed almost $4,000 in electronics. You are missing the point. Don't do anything for protection if it makes you feel better.
🤣🤣🤣, Another EMP Shield BS Shill getting kickbacks!😱😱😱
100% disagree...full of BS
Trust the guy who is giving you a coupon for $50 to buy one, lol.
You can buy a surge breaker to put in your breaker panel for far less.
Very good video!I have allready bought 3 of them..house,shop.truck...
I purchased an EMP Shield for my solar controller. It totally discharged my batteries and damaged the controller forcing me to buy another. I'd NEVER advise someone to buy this thing as they do NOT stand behind their warranty. Incidentally, they have NOT adequately tested this thing so there's no proof that it will actually work.
That stinks. I actually was considering one for solar as I already have the Siemens for my whole house. So I'm assuming the company did not assist you regarding their warranty? What was their response?
@@stmcgarret They basically just ignored my complaint and called me concerning the negative comments that I was posting everywhere. They finally did give me a refund but deducted 20% and treated it like a restocking fee. I'd NEVER recommend this company to anyone. I bought a surge suppressor from the Midnite Solar people and put it on my controller which is also a Midnite controller. I've never had a problem since.
@@tekki2060 Thanks for your reply. That is terrible. I've looked into Midnight Solar but now am convinced they are the better company to go with. Best to you.
Sorry for the damaged of your system. I was wondering how did you wire your system and what kind of solar power system do you have?
@@SimpleLivingForever I have a Midnite Classic 150 controller and SimpliPHI batteries. Everything is wired to a combiner box. I've got 2.4 kilowatts of solar panels and I'm going to put up my wind turbine this summer. So far everything has been working real well. Other than the EMP Shield issue I've had absolutely no problems and would recommend these products to anyone.