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- - Explosive Tutorial II -
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- 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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