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Well so is any one out there planning on lighting any fuse this 4th of July ?
Please post your pictures here of your pile of pyro you plan on shooting or any videos you may take
I have a small show planned on the lake this year for our community, it will be a class "C" low level show, the community
raised about $2500.00 so that is the the size of the show and it's not the size that matters it's how you display it that
makes or breaks a show, of course the more the merrier
Since the community raised the funds I must do my best with what I have so this is what I have planned,
an opener of 5 heavy Titanium salutes fanned out wide over the water followed with increasing number of shells in
the volleys of shells mixed with volleys of cakes.
The cakes will be in groups of 4 to 6 cakes with 3 to 4 groups going off at once, the center group
straight up and the left and right group fanned left and right.
That's 12 to 24 cakes lighting every time a fire button is pushed.
The finale will include about 60 cakes going off all at once with about 30 rockets with salutes.
Because it's going to be on the water and a small floating dock of sorts I have decided to fire it electrically instead of
hand lighting it, there just isn't enough room to run around in the dark lighting things so it will all be matched to electric
matches and hooked to my firing panel.
Here is a few pictures of some of the set up and equipment I will be using.
I built this 250 cue firing panel in 1996 it has 10 field boxes each having 25 cues.
Here is two of the field boxes, I shouldn't need more than 50 cues for this show.
There are some little light bulbs on them for testing the circuits right now they get removed and this is where the
electric matches connect to the system.
This is basically the whole haul $2500.00 worth of smoke and fire that I'm going to paint the sky with :eg:
Notice the 4 big cakes right in the center, you can only see two of them
These are the "Faces of Death" shells other wise known by the name of "Excalibur shells" and other names have been put
on these high end shells, they are some of the best 2" shells out there.
So I lay out all 144ea 2" shells so I could group the like shells together.
And then grouped them into 11 cues for firing, the smallest cue will be 4 shells and the largest will be 18 shells, all
144 shells will be gone in 11 button pushes :eg:
Now I have to basically do the same thing with the cakes, they will be shot in volleys of 12 to 24 at a time with
the finale having up to 60 cakes going off at once on one cue :eg:
Any one close by want to help set it up or come watch the show please PM me and I'll give you a number
More pictures to follow as things progress
A Happy and Safe 4th to all...
Please post your pictures here of your pile of pyro you plan on shooting or any videos you may take
I have a small show planned on the lake this year for our community, it will be a class "C" low level show, the community
raised about $2500.00 so that is the the size of the show and it's not the size that matters it's how you display it that
makes or breaks a show, of course the more the merrier
Since the community raised the funds I must do my best with what I have so this is what I have planned,
an opener of 5 heavy Titanium salutes fanned out wide over the water followed with increasing number of shells in
the volleys of shells mixed with volleys of cakes.
The cakes will be in groups of 4 to 6 cakes with 3 to 4 groups going off at once, the center group
straight up and the left and right group fanned left and right.
That's 12 to 24 cakes lighting every time a fire button is pushed.
The finale will include about 60 cakes going off all at once with about 30 rockets with salutes.
Because it's going to be on the water and a small floating dock of sorts I have decided to fire it electrically instead of
hand lighting it, there just isn't enough room to run around in the dark lighting things so it will all be matched to electric
matches and hooked to my firing panel.
Here is a few pictures of some of the set up and equipment I will be using.
I built this 250 cue firing panel in 1996 it has 10 field boxes each having 25 cues.
Here is two of the field boxes, I shouldn't need more than 50 cues for this show.
There are some little light bulbs on them for testing the circuits right now they get removed and this is where the
electric matches connect to the system.
This is basically the whole haul $2500.00 worth of smoke and fire that I'm going to paint the sky with :eg:
Notice the 4 big cakes right in the center, you can only see two of them
These are the "Faces of Death" shells other wise known by the name of "Excalibur shells" and other names have been put
on these high end shells, they are some of the best 2" shells out there.
So I lay out all 144ea 2" shells so I could group the like shells together.
And then grouped them into 11 cues for firing, the smallest cue will be 4 shells and the largest will be 18 shells, all
144 shells will be gone in 11 button pushes :eg:
Now I have to basically do the same thing with the cakes, they will be shot in volleys of 12 to 24 at a time with
the finale having up to 60 cakes going off at once on one cue :eg:
Any one close by want to help set it up or come watch the show please PM me and I'll give you a number
More pictures to follow as things progress
A Happy and Safe 4th to all...
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