If lightning strikes within about 500 feet your panels will be fine although the wiring and circuitry connected to them will often be destroyed.
Emp resistant solar panels.
Oddly enough the simplest thing you can do to protect your personal electrical grid from an emp.
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You can expect a similar situation after a nuclear emp.
Securing a renewable source of electric power for water pumps refrigeration and sanitation is a prudent step.
But if damage occurs it is likely due to the wires between the solar panel and most often the solar charge controller.
Three ways you can protect your solar panels from an emp 1.
Most solar panels can survive emps caused by natural phenomenon like lightning within a close range.
The most common barrier to direct blasts of electricity and electromagnetic waves is to encase.
They will suffer damage and their overall power output may be reduced by five to ten percent but most of them should continue to work.
Quantum harvest manufactures a comprehensive line of portable emp protected solar power systems non emp protected smaller units and premade faraday boxes for the safe storage of electronic items.
The solar panels themselves should be fine.
Solar panels will actually do a surprisingly good job of resisting an emp.
A solar panel itself may be inherently resistant to emp to some extent.
What we do know is that emps are caused by both nuclear explosions and by the sun i e.