Well,that sounds very familiar.  Back in the Nike missile days they used very similar thermal batteries in the missiles.  Didn't need more than a couple of minutes of operation, just fire them up a little before launch.

Wurlitzer in North Tonawanda NY made them and probably other contractors.  An engineer from there told me in about 1962 that several of the women assembling the batteries were injured/killed when something ignited the pyrotechnic material.

73,

Clare   N2RJB

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM Gene Smar via MRCA <mrca@mailman.qth.net> wrote:
Thanks, Mark. Too bad the tested generators provided only 5 min of TX time. Might be fun to play with if they lasted longer or were renewable. 

73 de 
Gene Smar AD3F 

Sent from my Radio Shack TRS-80 model 100 laptop

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM, MilComm Guy
An interesting report on a prototype arctic battery, uses a pull fuse to activate.

73
Mark
K1HF
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