Pyrotechnic igniters

Jan 10, 2020 3 Replies

When you secretly replace all the customer's regular 0603 resistors with exploding resistors it's fun for the whole family! Like replacing their usual coffee crystals with Folger's crystals


I suspect that they take a lot of energy to ignite. Replacing ordinary resistors would probably have no effect.

There are explosives, probably used in nukes, that are very hard to detonate. The slapper type igniters are for those.

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com

It's more like secretly replacing their dilithium with Folger's crystals.

But it's easier to simply put tantalums in backwards like PARC did with the first Diablos.

Maybe what is used in airbags?

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--Spehro Pefhany

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