|  The
Saber
For all the aspiring Errol Flynn's and wannabe
Zorro's the Saber is the weapon for you.
Hits no longer have to be made with the point
of the weapon but can be made by any part of
the blade usually in a cutting action.
Saber is usually the fastest and regularly
the most painful of the three weapons. The design
of the weapon is very different from the other
two. The guard is larger also protecting the
knuckles from cuts to the hand. The blade is
also different with a thin cutting edge to it
and ending not in a button as the other two
do but in a rather worrying looking bend.
 How
it Works
An electrical current is sent from the scoring
box to the weapon via the ‘C’ wire.
This wire is then linked to the guard (and therefore
blade) by the bodywire socket.
In the rest state the circuit runs from the
‘C’ wire through the weapon then
back to the box via the ‘B’ (ground)
wire. In sabres with sensor sensors this goes
via the sensor socket, in sensorless sabres
there is a direct link between ‘C’
and ‘B’.
When the blade comes into contact with the opponents
lame’, the circuit switches to the path
of least resistance which is to return to the
box via the opponents ‘A’ wire.
The box then responds to the new circuit by
displaying a coloured light.
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