05-12-2017, 11:33 AM
If things escalate to EMP attacks, functioning solar panels will be an insignificant portion of your worries. For example, a working microwave has little value when there is nothing to reheat. And also, your microwave will have been destroyed by the EMP. You can purchase EMP bags for small essential electronics like 2-way radios, but such items have probably never been field tested against a real EMP.
I don't know about your solar setup (or that much about EMPs), but on a simple system I believe only the charge controller and inverter would have to be hardened against an EMP. Somebody else with more knowledge can weigh in with more useful information. A friend of mine who retired from the military was telling me how to turn our shipping container into a faraday cage, and we pretty much came to the conclusion that the grounding requirements in our "soil" are potentially insurmountable on a budget so we never moved onto the other problems like the wooden floor.
ETA: value, content
I don't know about your solar setup (or that much about EMPs), but on a simple system I believe only the charge controller and inverter would have to be hardened against an EMP. Somebody else with more knowledge can weigh in with more useful information. A friend of mine who retired from the military was telling me how to turn our shipping container into a faraday cage, and we pretty much came to the conclusion that the grounding requirements in our "soil" are potentially insurmountable on a budget so we never moved onto the other problems like the wooden floor.
ETA: value, content