I will take a look in my books but a HERF gun is based on Tesla's inventions. Yup the HERF gun is nothing more than an overblown Tesla coil. I quote from slashdot.
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I've seen this happen, and it's easy to reproduce. When I was testing out a spark gap I made for my tesla coil, I was doing it near to my computer. Not a very smart thing to do in general, but I was listening to MP3s while I work.  Anyway, as soon as I switched it on, my box locked up, made some $@#$@#$@#$@#ed-up "R2-D2" noises, and crashed. I immediately turned off the TC power supply, rebooted my computer, and it locked up again. I was freaking out for a minute that I had killed my box, but luckily it worked after I shut it off for a few seconds and turned it back on. If a small spark gap can knock out a computer from 2.5 meters away, just think what a BIG one could do.
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That Tesla was one odd guy. Aparently he started an earthquake by finding the resonance frequence of the earth(found that out in a science museum show). He is even the guy that proved that it is safe to stay in your car during a lighting storm. Though I wonder what the differnce is between the HERF gun and an EMP pulse. It looks like they do the same.
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telsa coil lights up fluorescents because of the static field around them When the Field gets strong enough to reach a decent conductor it Jumps in the form of an ARC
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You are confusing the Van Da Gaff machine with the Tesla coil. One works on static electricity and the other one works on high frequency electricity.
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