Keep an old style tungsten lightbulb handy, if it starts to glow, run and turn your homes main power off...

Why? EMP??

Why?

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damn it, why?

How long to react?

And dammit why is it happening? lol

BLUE BEAM

Light bulb, why you no glow?

haarp? solar x class flare? swirling vortex?

what would be the point of turning off your house power if a non-connected lightbulb is glowing????

Dude,


The voltage required to illuminate a tungsten filament in a light bulb that is unplugged is in the millions.

You would be vaporized before the light bulb illuminated.

Run.....where?

just using my logic here, but i think it would mean that like a super jolt of energy would be coming through, and if your power is on, then the massive power surge could cause anything electrical problems, and maybe make the wiring in your house catch on fire?

It will glow when there is a lot of electricity in the air, which in turn over loads our power wires, which in turn sends surges into your home. Just an easy early warning sign.
jph

So I'm aware when you troll "Really" hard?

Bro, have you ever watched the auroras in the north or south pole holding a light bulb, kinda fun man
jph

You understand that the bulb isn't connected to anything? If it's glowing, the energy is getting to it not through the power cables, because it is not connected.

So if there was going to be a power surge, it would make no difference if you turn off your main power switch. There would already be enough energy in your house to make a non-connected lightbulb glow, so that would mean all of your wiring and equipment is already being seriously radiated somehow. Turning off the switch would do NOTHING to help.

yeah, that makes sense. screwed either way, in that case. lol

Tungsten means "singing steel" it glows or hums when it is excited....
jph

I'm out, warning has been left.
jph

One name.... Nikola Tesla.......google o' wise one.

Thanks brother

That's why they want to get rid of all tungsten bulbs!

ding ding ding!

a 35 Watt bulb still requires 35 watts to illuminate.

If there is 35 Watts of "free energy" in the air around the light bulb then you would be dead.

ack!

If I take a fluorescent tube bulb under a high voltage power line, it will glow. Actually it looks like a star wars light saber.

Are you sure you are not confusing a tungsten light bulb with a fluorescent? Also a EMP event happens in microseconds to fuse silicon / oxide semiconductor technology.

Dont you mean a fluorescent bulb like tesla did? By the way you can have tens of thousands of volts with out doing any damage... every got a static shock ?

People up in Clarksville, TN were doing that a year or so ago. Out in their backyards with fluorescent tube bulbs waving them around for the tv stations to film. They all lived under the high voltage wires.

I think the OP means a flourescent tube. LOL. This is GLP.

Fluorescent tubes can be excited by electrostatic fields

Dude,

Isn't there an easier more informative way than keeping a glass bulb around?

How about just create a large coil of enough 14 Gauge wire then run the two end points into a piezo-electric buzzer. At least you would hear it in another room.