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Torpedo detonation???
Posted by: Nathan M. Greenfield ()
Date: February 19, 2003 11:27AM

Don't know if this has been covered; if it has, sorry.

Once the pistol, either contact or magnetic, made "contact" -- as in the electric wires crossing or touching (I've read two descriptions of this) what was the path of events that led to the explosion.

I assume that the touching of the wires led to a surge of electricity. Does anyone know how much electricity? How long was the wire that led to the explosive charge? The charge, I take it, was behind the nose of the torpedo, but the battery was further back...so how long was the other wire?

And, just to be really technical about it, do we know the colors of the wires and how they were insulated?

Cheers,
Nathan

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Torpedo detonation??? Nathan M. Greenfield 02/19/2003 11:27AM
Re: Torpedo detonation??? ROBERT M. 02/25/2003 01:55AM
Re: Torpedo detonation??? Rainer Bruns 02/25/2003 01:48PM
Re: Torpedo detonation??? ROBERT M. 02/26/2003 03:30AM
Re: Torpedo detonation??? Rainer Bruns 02/26/2003 04:42AM
Re: Torpedo detonation??? ROBERT M. 02/26/2003 02:47PM
Exploder Mech. link Nathan M. Greenfield 02/26/2003 11:04AM
Re: Exploder Mech. link ROBERT M. 02/26/2003 02:50PM
Re: Exploder Mech. link Rainer Bruns 02/26/2003 05:39PM
Re: Exploder Mech. link ROBERT M. 02/26/2003 08:13PM


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