Avalanche Airbag Tech Talk with Black Diamond

GEAR:30

BLISTER

Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Supercapacitors, Venturi valves, and scary-high currents — this week we discuss airbag design and technology with Black Diamond’s Director of Design Engineering.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Pete’s Background at BD (1:10)
Why is BD using 3 different airbag technologies in 19/20? (2:55)
Supercapacitors, pt. 1 (7:30)
Jetforce technology and design (11:03)
Airbag standards testing (16:04)
Alpride E1 — Supercapacitors pt. 2 (18:54)
Alpride canister systems (27:19)
Pete’s airbag pack of choice (35:45)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister podcast network. I'm Sam
0:10.5	Shaheen, a senior editor at Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over
0:15.0	at blisterreview.com. Today, we have another more technical conversation about avalanche airbags. A few weeks ago, we had
0:23.1	Doug Workman on the podcast to talk about the practical use aspects of airbags and how they affect
0:27.7	our mountain recreation. It's a good conversation, and I encourage you to check it out if you
0:31.9	haven't already. But this week, we're getting a little more in the weeds with airbag technology.
0:36.3	I talked with Black Diamond's
0:37.8	Director of Design Engineering, Pete Gompert, about their expansive airbag line for 1920 and each
0:43.0	of the major airbag technologies on the market right now. And the surprising fact that Black Diamond
0:47.5	is currently using all of them. So let's get to it. Well, today, I am talking with Black Diamond's Pete Gompert.
0:57.5	How are you doing today, Pete?
0:58.7	I'm doing great.
0:59.4	How are you?
1:00.2	Excellent.
1:00.9	It's a little rainy here in Colorado today, but it looks like it's going to be turning to snow real soon, so pretty psyched.
1:06.6	Cool.
1:07.3	Not done yet.
1:09.0	Man, not this winter.
1:10.5	So to start off, can you give a little bit on your background and your history of Black Diamond?
1:15.4	I started at BD almost 12 years ago now, I think.
1:19.4	Before that, I worked in aerospace and automotive, fixing airplanes and working on airbags, actually.
1:26.3	And got a chance to work at BD.
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