Emp Proofing Solar Panels

Your home s solar panels after an emp.

Emp proofing solar panels.

If lightning strikes within about 500 feet your panels will be fine although the wiring and circuitry connected to them will often be destroyed. Most solar panels can survive emps caused by natural phenomenon like lightning within a close range. Would solar panels survive an emp attack. So unless the owner of the solar system has the foresight to store spare parts in a faraday cage their working solar panels won t do them much good.

They even make it easy to plug batteries in to get you through the day after the grid goes down. You can expect a similar situation after a nuclear emp. A severe solar storm an emp attack with a high altitude detonation of a nuclear warhead or even simple computer hacking could cripple the grid perhaps for days and in several scenarios decades. Depending on the strength of the electromagnetic pulse emp most solar panels would likely not be affected.

Our emp hardening is modeled after military designs that protect the system solar panels and your appliances while in use. Part ii of this article which will be released tomorrow will talk about what is involved in protecting larger volumes and installed panels. However the larger the solar array is the more likely that there will be damage to the supporting equipment including the wiring charge controller and inverter. Sol ark solar inverters are emp hardened meaning they re specifically designed to withstand all the disruptions of an emp whether it comes from a nuclear weapon or the sun.

If there was an electromagnetic pulse would you know how to protect your solar panels from an emp. The problem is that the solar charge controller used to charge the batteries and the voltage inverter that converts the battery power to 120 volts ac will probably be destroyed by the emp. One of our engineers tested solar systems and panels at white sands n m. Sol ark all in onesolar generator system power through whatever happens where to buy add batteries and or panels to a sol ark for any of these applications.