SHTF with an EMP with an Aim Point or Eotech even work

I had a brief thought about all the couch commandos putting holographic and red-dots on their black rifles.

Then I thought, these are all EMP hardened right? Nope.

I'm guessing if there is a EMP that disrupts society probably caused from a solar flare, does everyone have back up irons?
I know most people train with their optic and some have back up iron sites, but now the trend is plastic back-up irons.
I'm not sure I trust these back-up iron sites as a primary when you really need to depend on them.


Anyone elses thoughts?

Some say that the electronics are too small to be effected.. but there is no definitive proof that they will withstand an EMP

I have no idea of the exact makeup of the internal electronics of a aimpoint but I would think they are very basic and would probably be just fine. Has nothing to do with large or small but more the complexity of the circuits. Aimpoints are probably nothing more then a simple led driver circuit.

To test, simply put high voltage into the circuitry. I know my acog wont have any issue with those [Coffee]

Uhhhh High voltage is not the same as an EMP. Just sayin.

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Originally Posted by J

Uhhhh High voltage is not the same as an EMP. Just sayin.

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Yep, but voltage surges in EMP what fries circuits.

Correct, but impulse duration and frequency are things you just can't forget about.

Applying a 48V DC power source to a circuit might not do a damn thing. Between being applied before VRs and being 100% DC, they could be completely benign.

But apply a 25ms 48V impulse to a circuit AFTER the regulators, and additionally across all inductors and capacitors and batteries, as an EMP would, and you will probably have a completely different result.

Your test is not reliable, plain and simple. If you think that applying a high voltage to a circuit is a reliable test for an EMP you are either horribly mistaken, horribly uneducated or just otherwise completely off base.

I probably have an idea of what I'm talking about here.

Should be good as long as your scope isn't grounded. The biggest zaps will come from stuff plugged into the wall as there is a current going through them already. Basically the EMP would affect the high voltage lines and spread through the grid blowing every circuit and transformer along the way. The household lines would still send enough voltage through any devices plugged into them to blow their wiring. Scopes, especially with a metal tube inside a metal box (like a safe) shouldn't be grounded and probably won't be affected by EMP;s. The more coiling in a wire, the greater the bump in voltage an EMP causes, and since all of our main power lines are coiled bundles of coiled wires they provide the paths for surges.

Next thunderstorm run around your neighborhood with your rifle over your head?

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Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey

To test, simply put high voltage into the circuitry. I know my acog wont have any issue with those [Coffee]

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Or my MTAC and XTR's either

"you are either horribly mistaken, horribly uneducated or just otherwise completely off base."

im all three. :)