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 (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.
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 ;).
Even a small effect surprised me.
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.