Non-lethal force vs cybershell suspect

[Jonathan Willis]

Originally Posted by lwcamp

Simple electric wires and motors are not going to be anywhere near as affected as electronic chips by induced transient currents. Again, if the current gets high enough, you could trip a circuit breaker or blow a fuse, but these simple electrical components are fairly robust.

It will be more than just wires and motors. A modern PCB has (in addition to the main processor) dozens of smaller integrated circuits and hundreds, even thousands of very small surface mounted components.

Only the main processor and maybe some of the larger secondary ICs will be optical. That leaves lots of small ICS plus all the surface mount components (which can each be less than a millimeter square) that could be damaged, and that would only take a few hundred millivolts getting into the casing.