Why are EMP generators so expensive?

[-Setro-]

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I see them for upwards of $100, but why?
You can build them by yourself, easily.

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[WaterOre]

i'm pretty sure there's a reason for a good electromagnetic pulse generator to be out of reach for the common man

[-Setro-]

i'm pretty sure there's a reason for a good electromagnetic pulse generator to be out of reach for the common man

http://www.instructables.com/id/EMP-generator/

[Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph]

WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING ON DOING, SETRO?

[Pie Crust]

Take one to Starbucks, fire it, leave.

[-Setro-]

WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING ON SETRO

walk around school hallways next to people using their phones :)

[AtlasBlue]

It doesn't seem like it would be THAT hard to build one on your own.

walk around school hallways next to people using their phones :)

Oooooh boy.

[Foxscotch]

http://www.instructables.com/id/EMP-generator/

disposibul

edit: haha. disposibul not constantinople

[Maxwell.]

correct me if I'm wrong but I don't even think you can fry any phones with the ones you make, I think the aluminium/steel case would protect it

the ones at 100 look much more powerful

It would be enough to murder hard disk drives. Head over to your school's computer lab.

this is why they're expensive
they don't want mentally deranged people like you getting their hands on them

[Headcrab Zombie]

walk around school hallways next to people using their phones :)

Something that size would need to be within a few centimeters of the phone to work

[Pie Crust]

It would be enough to murder hard disk drives. Head over to your school's computer lab.

[e-maxx]

disposibul

edit: haha. disposibul not constantinople

that entire paragraph is beautiful

Get a disposibul camera with a flash, take the charging circet out of the case. DON'T SHOCK YOUR SELF. The charging circet has a 330volt capasitor and if it's charged it will hurt. To discharge the capasitor touch the two wires conecting to a black cinider(the capasitor) with a screw driver, it should put out a shower of sparks. Make shore you take out the batteries.

[Headcrab Zombie]

It would be enough to murder hard disk drives. Head over to your school's computer lab.

Or you could, you know
not be a richard

[SWAT One]

This topic is gold.  I'm dying lol.

[-Setro-]

couldn't i just rip the head off of a bug zapper racket and replace it with coiled copper wire for EMP?