Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!edsews!charette
From: charette@edsews.EDS.COM (Mark A. Charette)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: 9-volt / rocket launcher?
Message-ID: <7679@edsews.EDS.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 89 16:33:14 GMT
References: <2557@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Organization: EDS/TSD - Troy, MI
Lines: 17

In article <2557@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) writes:
> 
> How can I use a 9-volt battery and other componentsx
>   to heat something up enough that I can light a fuse with it?

As your Subject: line infers - try one of the igniters from the model
rocket companies. I used a 9-v battery last summer with the kids (the
penlight cells in my igniter were dead) - worked fine all afternoon (about
20 igniters worth). The new ones have a very fine nichrome wire which
doesn't draw excessive current. The old ones (around 20 years ago - really !!)
just about needed a car battery to get them hot.

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