For those of you who were interested in using electrically fired igniters
for recovery deployment, here's a superb paper on the use of surface mount
resistors as igniter bridgewires. These have the advantages of repeatability
and availability - you are not dependent on a commercial igniter of unknown
characteristics

        http://www.rocketresearch.org/erg/gse/ignitorpaper/index.htm


Also CC PIClist just for interest.


            Russell McMahon

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