摘要 |
This invention relates to a detonator firing circuit comprising a control unit and a plurality of detonator circuits. The detonator circuits are arranged to simultaneously receive a "fire" signal and the fire signal initiates all the delay arrangements to allow different groups of detonators to detonate at different times in accordance with a predetermined firing programme. In the present invention each detonator circuit has a code individual thereto and the control unit can control and transmit information to every detonator circuit, including the delay to be imparted to the detonator circuit. The identification code for each detonator circuit is preferably one of a large number of identification codes so that the likelihood of the two detonator circuits having the same identification code and being the same firing circuit is extremely small.
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