USB killer v2.0

coderman coderman at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 22:04:13 PDT 2015


On 10/15/15, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  ...
> However, for REAL damage, it would be useful to pulse the kilovolts into the
> magnetron:  Generally if you increase the voltage by 10, the power increases
> by 100.  Feed that microwave magnetron with brief (microseconds) pulses of
> 40,000 volts, rather than 4000, and it will probably generate close to 100
> kilowatts.  It would be necessary to establish that such a system will not
> arc with over-voltage, either within the waveguide or the associated
> high-voltage wiring.

high voltage solid state built into shielding around the
waveguide/magnetron cavity presents smallest external hazard and
compact too.

of course, another order-of-mag level up in explosively pumped EW weapons :)

now for buckysheet airogel supercapacitors to get cheap...


best regards,



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