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[nuke11]

I was thinking this as well.

But it still stands to reason there has be another device that pre-dates the M147. It is a nearly a 40 year gap between the DFD Mk12/13/15 and the M147.

As you note it does say it replaces the chemical pens, so maybe they don't use a mechanical timer again until around 2000.

Can you provide a link to the pelleting doc?

[mmartin798]

Originally Posted by nuke11

Can you provide a link to the pelleting doc?

Here is the link. I had some difficulty getting to the page when I just tried it, so if you can't see it, I did manage to download a PDF I can share if needed.

https://www.dau.edu/cop/ammo/_layout...action=default

[nuke11]

Originally Posted by mmartin798

Here is the link. I had some difficulty getting to the page when I just tried it, so if you can't see it, I did manage to download a PDF I can share if needed.

https://www.dau.edu/cop/ammo/_layout...action=default

Worked for me.

Thank you.

[mmartin798]

If anyone is wondering if the battery sealed inside an M147 would still have the power to operate after 150 years, the answer is probably. The electrolyte is not in the battery cell until you start preparing the M147 for use. One of the first steps turns a control knob that puts the electrolyte into the cell. The real question is would you be able to get the full 30-day delay once it is that old.

[nuke11]

To summarize the general consensus of this discussion with https://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=6036. The M1 Timer Detonator is most likely an general guess as to what the M147 TDFD would be without hard data available to the game designer(s).

[Slar]

That was my question. Been bugging me for a while. That M147 looks good. For my own purposes, I'm just going to assume, for now, that Morrow Industries developed a similar device, the M1, that works as described in the game book.

Saves me a lot of headache.

[nuke11]

Here is another interesting device in the same family as the M147, the M153 Time-Delay Sympathetic Detonator (TY-SYDET). It was given an NSN in 2009, it looks very similar to the M147.

Here is the only information I could find so far.

The M153 TD-SYDET provides the capability of time delay functioning of explosive charges or sympathetic simultaneous detonation of numerous explosive charges/munitions in the same general vicinity through the command and control of only one charge, eliminating the necessity of physically linking them together.

There is a TM for it, but it doesn't seem to be available in the internet.