RELIABILITY EVALUATION OF THE ACTIVATION MACHINE FOR THE ELECTRIC DETONATING CAPS-EKA 350

The machine - EKA 350 is designed for the activation of the serial or mixed connected electric detonating caps EK - 40 - 69 in explosive fillings at mining and demolition. For the analyzes of reliability it is important that the machine works in the three regimes of function: LOAD, FIRE and EMPTY. Modeling of reliability was executed for each of the mentioned regimes of the EKA 350 machine. In the machine are incorporated the components dedicated to the professional usage and satisfaction of the MIL standards. The machine is treated as it works in a single - stage mission which lasts 20 seconds.