E-match ports on consumer fireworks

[MontanaMike]

We buy our product mostly from WFBoom, and use several of the DisplayFireworks1 products, most of which have the ematch ports. I feel like there might be other products that have the ports, but how do you know?

Normally when I'm poking cakes, I don't have to tear all that much of the outside skin away, so it would be easy for me to miss seeing the ports...the only reason I know to go looking form them on the DF1 products is because they've been mentioned here on the forum. No mention at all on the packaging.

Is there any way to find out if other products have the ports? Is this somethiing that will (hopefully) eventually expand to other 1.4 items in the future? I'd really like to see the ports on the zipper cakes which are harder to set up with MJG initiators due to the size of the tubes.

[topshelfpyro]

You will find ports on some "consumer/pro" cakes from 76. You will never see ports advertised on actual consumer products and it's very unlikely to have a port on actual consumer products.

[displayfireworks1]

Thanks again for purchasing from wfboom and my Displayfireworks1 cakes. It nice to have a fireworks enthusiast in the State of Montana, considering I am in Pennsylvania. I am trying to push the progression curve when I added the E-Fire ports on a Consumer Fireworks product. For now, they have to stay safely hidden to comply with Consumer Fireworks regulation. However, they are there for those advanced fireworks enthusiast with fireworks firing systems. I know for while there, the factory making OG Pyro did not want to add the E-Fire port. We had to move to another factory and now all the DF1 products including OG Pyro should have the E-Fire port if desired. If not used, you can just light by hand via the Visco and the port provision safely burns away. Last I checked 76 “Consumer Pro” products have the port hidden in the same fashion.
What is eventually going to help push this forward in all Consumer Fireworks products one day is the Ignite firing system. The reason is the Ignite is expanding into the point-of-sale retail level. Once all of this is at a plug and play level the industry will have to also advance to design products to the soon to be level these advanced fireworks enthusiasts will be at.
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What is going to hold it back. Not the systems or even the regulations. It will be the connections and who controls them. There is probably more going on at a connection level than most people realize in any industry. For example, USB connections, phone power supply connection, plumbing connections, air conditioner refrigerant connections, medical equipment IV tubing, paper towels etc. and what equipment it also connects to etc. Who is going to design AND profit from this new plug and play connection the industry will one day adopt.
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A good read on this sort of subject is to read about USB and who owns it. This may explain why they are always changing these darn phone and computer cable connections and why Apple does not always adopt the changes.
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Another good read is the history of liquid soap for washing your hands. He didn’t control the soap, he controlled the dispensers for the soap.