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Data Mining reveals extent solar activity damage

Started by atreidesheir, November 16, 2014, 08:41:53 PM

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atreidesheir

Even low voltage systems appear to be affected by solar activity over time.
The end of the article says experts are looking into the effects on household electronics.
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/insurance-claim-data-reveals-the-hidden-damage-from-geomagnetic-storms-df5c2e4d895e

Wonder how battery powered systems and bbd chips and the like are affected.
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RobA

Totally fascinating and an ingenious approach to trying to figure it out. My conclusion is that we should only buy tube based equipment. I wonder if things like BBD's and Ge transistors are safer in-circuit or out. Either way, I think it's time to build a Faraday cage for all my semiconductor parts ;).
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atreidesheir

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RobA

Quote from: atreidesheir on November 17, 2014, 11:27:45 PM
Even a small effect surprised me.
Yeah, I wouldn't have expected much of anything significant above the normal mucking up of things due to stray radiation. I wonder if you could get a similar correlation by looking at data errors in computer systems. I could be harder to see because of error correction in memory and stuff like that on the systems that would be of most interest, but it could be interesting.
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