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Welcome aboard. $1000-1500 can out on a pretty decent show if you buying wholesale. Probably not so much buying retail at a roadside tent. The first year I bought wholesale, I ended up spending about...

That's a good video for demonstrating the need for proper safety planning, and having necessary equipment on site. Good too that they had that skid loader at the ready. Certainly came in handy under...

If this was set off by removing e-match from a shell, it really brings home the risk associated with pyro products. I've never had to remove one I'd already installed (by poking the lift charge in a...

I'll daisy chain slats using DB25 cables, I just avoid using splices on the actual igniters. Have had minimal problems doing so, save for a bad DB25 cable once, and damaged connectors on slats a few...

I've never used scotchlocks when wiring fireworks yet, as I like to operate on the assumption that the fewer splice points (or connectors) there are, the better. Adding additional junctions to wiring...

Had an excellent 4th here. Only lit off a few of my own things earlier in the evening to scratch the itch. Ended up going to a major municipal show about an hour from home after a buddy of mine who...

Are you referring to the gel-filled insulation piercing type Scotch lock splices that used to be common on phone line and security system wiring? I'm going to guess that the wire gauge in the...

I kind of like the cake fires, and use them to my advantage. I usually have a burn pile or burn barrel on site during the show, and will throw cakes and other paper waste on/in it so as to reduced...

Man, if that was staged, it was risky (and stupid) as hell. Blowing apart a running lawnmower not only presents the risk of shrapnel, but of spraying and igniting gas, and possibly launching the...

@BMoore, it is incredible to me that a system that costly caught on at all. I mean, there are still large municipal shows I hear are fired with "nail boards" and pushbutton hardwired control panels....

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I knew FireOne was considerably more expensive, but didn't realize it was that disparate of a pricing structure (versus most others on the market). I recall looking at their site at...

This is why I've been slow to add 1.4pro to my displays. Honestly, I originally did Dave's certification course mostly to have access to airbursts (not to be called "salutes") to add more audible...

@BMoore, your last paragraph raises a valid point. While the controller can certainly be viewed as the "weak link" for those pro operators who need a true heavy duty professional class product, the 4...

I haven't done a true pyromusical, and don't really intend to; that's a level of planning and execution I'm not aspiring to reach. In fact, for the longest time I really disliked background music...

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my major constraint is time. I'm a self employed plumber, and work a lot of hours. I get minimal assistance with prep and setup, so 99% of the effort falls directly on me if the...

My shows (not really pyro musicals by definition) are constrained by budget (typically no more than. $3K of product at wholesale) and hardware/equipment (I've 262 cues via Cobra, and as many custom...

Saw (brief) video of this from CobraCon a couple of weeks ago posted on YouTube. Based on what was said about it, I expect it to be quite costly; a street price of $2K doesn't strike me as unlikely,...

Ok, will keep that in mind going forward.

Interesting recommendation from Cobra to charge them half way and leave them disconnected. I can see the latter, but surprised storing them at 50% charge is suggested. I guess I'll try swapping the...

True, Lithium Ion batteries are best not stored long periods at full charge. But neither do I want to have them deeply discharge in storage, as these get used once - maybe twice - a year. Typically,...

I'm going to have to open a support ticket with Cobra, but wondered if anyone and seen this before. Have an 18M with rechargable battery option already installed, that I purchased second hand in very...

Just wanted to note here that I read the shipping cost given as being for only the ocean bound leg of the journey, to get the container from China to a US port. Perhaps I was incorrect in assuming...

@Jknepp1954, as someone who is just a (somewhat larger scale than typical) consumer of fireworks, and having no inside connections to the wholesaling aspects of the business, I'm curious: your above...

That's kind of what I'm wondering. There are plenty of ways to make black smoke, but most involve burning stuff you really don't want to be around when it's on fire (like plastics, as one example)....

Kind of amusing to think an electronic firing system and a commercial smoke bomb are the means of doing this. Here I'd have expected it to be done by burning some secret, sacred mix of materials...