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Croatian electronic time-delay fuze from 1992

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goran_croatia

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This fuze was produced in small number (not more then 100 pieces) in 1992 for special units of Croatian army. So it is very rare. It was constructed and produced by Brodarski Institut in Zagreb. The case of the fuze was made using two plastic boxes which were used in industry for packaging rubber rings and bolts made by croatian factory "Ferimport". Two empty boxes were glued together and in one of theme there is electronic mechanism and in the other one are three batteries of 1,5 volts connected in seria which gives total of 4,5 volts. The part with electronic mechanism has transparent cover with paper label with basic information about the fuze and three led diodes can bee seen which are lighten depending how much time is left to detonation.

On the top of the fuze there is a switch for activation the fuze and plastic case with holes for fixing wires of electric detonator which are then screwed to place.

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Great info again!
And just for in case again the notorious question; did they use a manufacturer code?
 
This may seems a stupid question but could you switch it off by the switch at the top, once it was armed it would keep running and if tampered with set it off also,,,, Dave
 
millsbomber said:
This may seems a stupid question but could you switch it off by the switch at the top, once it was armed it would keep running and if tampered with set it off also,,,, Dave
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Once armed by turning the switch in position "on", the fuze could be disarmed simply by turning the switch in "off" position. The full delay is 1 hour,14 minutes and 10 seconds. But in case of disarming it after for example 1 hour after it was armed, the fuze would be automatically set on next arming by turning the switch in "on" position to delay in time which had remained to full delay time from previous arming (in this example if it was disarmed after 1 hour, in next arming the same fuze would delay 14 minutes and 10 seconds to detonation).

I hope that I helped :)
 
Did all fuzes made have the same running time? Was the odd running time predicted by the components used or was was it set this way on purpose?
 
EOD said:
Did all fuzes made have the same running time? Was the odd running time predicted by the components used or was was it set this way on purpose?
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Yes, all fuzes made have the same running time. The running time was predicted by the components used.
 
goran,

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Joe
 
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