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Old 02-04-2009, 07:49 PM
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Air bag's inflate as a result of a reaction of sodium azide (NaN3) with potassium nitrate (KNO3) to produce nitrogen gas which inflates the air bag.
The chemical reaction causes a extremely large volume of gas to inflate the bag up 322kph and inflation is achieved in about 1/25 second.

The airbags in the steering wheel and dash are a real concern(to me) as electrically they are still hooked up to SRS computer with only the sensors disconnected. The SRS computer needs to hooked up to the wiring, if not the car won't start.

I was going to connect the positive and negative wires of the air bags together to stop any spurious voltage spikes, but I am unsure if this would be 100% failsafe method. I was told by a company that sells airbags that if left diconnected that there is virtually no chance of it going off.

What I would like to do is to remove the inflation module completly, but finding anyone that works on airbags is not that easy.

Warren
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