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- From: jack@rml.UUCP (jack hagerty)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rockets
- Subject: Re: Igniters
- Message-ID: <636@rml.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:01:53 GMT
- References: <634@rml.UUCP> <1993Jan22.171306.10814@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Reply-To: jack@rml.UUCP (jack hagerty)
- Organization: Robotic Midwives, Ltd.
- Lines: 57
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- In article <1993Jan22.171306.10814@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >jack@rml.UUCP (jack hagerty) writes:
- >
- >... delided ...
-
- Well, I've been accused of being deluded, deranged and demented, but
- this is the first time for delided :^)
-
- >I missed your tirade, sorry about that.
-
- You didn't miss much. Just my complaining that this ultra lightweight has
- been given enough ink to risk becoming a hazard.
-
- >: Why did he vary the voltage and not the current? Because he could!
- >: Why didn't he vary the current? Because he couldn't!
-
- >Well, he did vary the current - he just didn't measure it. The current
- >changed every time the voltage was changed.
-
- Since several people have pointed this out, let me change my complaint
- to "Why didn't he *measure* the current" since this seems to be a more
- significant factor in ignition system performance than voltage.
- >
- >: Does dipping an ignitor in plastic and firing it under water determine
- >: how well it can ignite a rocket motor?
-
- >I think he was talking about having to immerse an ignitor in water to determine
- >the calorific output - that is obviously nonsense. I do not recall him ever
- >stating that any such test was actually performed.
-
- No, he actually performed the test, it's just that he buried the fact in
- some world class hand waiving about the coating and the difficulties of
- firing an ignitor underwater (the results are in the last row of his table).
- He seems to understand the concept of a calorimeter, but hasn't the faintest
- idea how one works. All he had to do was come up with a thermally conductive
- container (like a film can, back before before they were plastic), run
- some wires into it and immerse the *container* in the insulated cup.
-
- >Hopefully, the NAR will not see fit to republish the thing anywhere.
-
- Amen.
-
- >Anything of any use in the articles, you could easily obtain by making a
- >5 minute phone call to the manufacturer.
-
- Ah, but how impartial would *they* be :^)
-
- - Jack
-
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