Blown Airbags
05-17-2010, 06:18 PM
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Disconnect the battery, wait 30 minutes, then R&R the air bags.
It takes 10V at 3A or more to ignite the squib, as long as you don't hook 'em up to a battery while it's in your hand you'll be fine.
Here's the funniest part; the US Government won't let you ship an airbag via the US Postal Service--disconnected from any power source and that could not possibly "blow-up" on its own.
Yet, that same government insists that you drive down the road with one 18" from your face, connected to a armed control module, ready to blow!
It takes 10V at 3A or more to ignite the squib, as long as you don't hook 'em up to a battery while it's in your hand you'll be fine.
Here's the funniest part; the US Government won't let you ship an airbag via the US Postal Service--disconnected from any power source and that could not possibly "blow-up" on its own.
Yet, that same government insists that you drive down the road with one 18" from your face, connected to a armed control module, ready to blow!
05-17-2010, 07:38 PM
#4
Here's the funniest part; the US Government won't let you ship an airbag via the US Postal Service--disconnected from any power source and that could not possibly "blow-up" on its own.
Yet, that same government insists that you drive down the road with one 18" from your face, connected to a armed control module, ready to blow!
Yet, that same government insists that you drive down the road with one 18" from your face, connected to a armed control module, ready to blow!
05-17-2010, 10:01 PM
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yea cliffs good for that kind of info... 
and many other things. id say do what cliff says, sans the install lol. I mean really spend equipment, but in most accidents if your wearing your seatbelt you should be fine. To be honest i dont really ever want to be in an accident where a 200mph explosive device is what saves my life....
and many other things. id say do what cliff says, sans the install lol. I mean really spend equipment, but in most accidents if your wearing your seatbelt you should be fine. To be honest i dont really ever want to be in an accident where a 200mph explosive device is what saves my life....
05-18-2010, 06:45 AM
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FWIW--You can make the air bag warning light go out by placing a 2.3Ω resistor across the ignitor wires from the control module--this tricks the controller into believing that the air bag is there and operational, sort of a MIL eliminator for the air bag system.
2.3Ω is not a commonly available value, however 4.7Ω is and two of those in parallel will provide 2.35Ω which is close enough. 1/4W resistors are fine, the controller passes a current limited low volatge signal through the squib to sense its presence, the resistor will trick it...
2.3Ω is not a commonly available value, however 4.7Ω is and two of those in parallel will provide 2.35Ω which is close enough. 1/4W resistors are fine, the controller passes a current limited low volatge signal through the squib to sense its presence, the resistor will trick it...
05-18-2010, 06:47 AM
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yeah but it happens, and in MOST cases airbag saves your life, just like a seatbelt. there are those fluke cases where people get in head on collisions at 100 mph and live only because they were NOT wearing their seatbelt and were ejected from the car. but in 98% of wrecks, no seatbelt dies, seatbelt lives.
trust me if you get into a bad wreck, youll be praying for that thing to go off. mine didn't and my head almost went through the windshield of my car.
trust me if you get into a bad wreck, youll be praying for that thing to go off. mine didn't and my head almost went through the windshield of my car.
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