- Explosive Tutorial II -

	In this I am going to explain generally how an electrical detonation
works.  An electrical detonating system is somewhat safer than that of a
non-electrical system.  You don't have to worry about things such as the
wrong people walking by when your explosive goes off.  Instead of using 
a fuse you use an electrical igniter which is composed of two wires with
a thin wire on the tip made to glow red hot when an electrical current of
about six volts.  On top of the thin wire is somewhat of a hard powder on
the tip to help the ignition.  It is all set off by a detonator, which is
just a box which produces an electrical current with a few switches to 
break the current when not in use for saftey.  These can set off numerous
explosives at once if you string the wires out from your current source
in two or three sets of wires coming out instead of just your positive and
negative you have two or three of each.  Just one word of advise, ALWAYS
make sure your saftey switches are on before even thinking about attaching
the wire from your detonator to the ingniter in your explosive.


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