Completion of the Program to Evaluate/Improve Instrumentation and Test Methods for Electroexplosive Device Safety Qualification.

摘要

Qualification of weapon and missile systems for electroexplosive device (EED) safety has been a continuing problem in the military services. Quantitative measurement of stray energy in EED's has been hampered by limitations of existing sensors. The report describes a new video diode detector instrumented EED (VIDEED) which responds to both the normal pin-to-pin energy (which would heat an EED bridgewire) and to the pin-to-case voltage (which might cause EED ignition due to arcing). Also described in this report are the amplifiers,cables,adapters and recorders which make up the rest of the measuring system. Mention is also made of the test procedures used in testing the VIDEED system.