What's the best way to remotely ignite fireworks? (With wires, not a wireless remote)?
The current is under 20 volts and under .5 amp. I've tried steel wool but the current isn't strong enough to burn enough of the steel wool to ignite fuses.
I seen solutions with graphite... does this work? I'm running out of ideas!
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I hope your not going to do anything bad with this info. But I dont want you to hurt yourself so here is the answer.
Go to your local hobby shop.
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simple fix for this ,you might need to lower the amount of power your using actually but try this, you know those model rockets you get at the hobby store? well the engine on those are ignited by what i believe are called "starter" they are basically a couple wires that are connected at the tip by some sort of sulfur type stuff, sort of like a match, you clip a positive lead to one side and a negative to the other , it takes very little (12 volts at the most)power to ignite the starter. they are cheap and work very well.
I personally use the model rocket engine ignitors to light the fuses. They work surprisingly well but sometimes you'll get a dud. I use two in parallel to be sure the job gets done. Just tape them to the fuse and apply the voltage.
I personally made a panel with 31 push buttons, a lamp and a key switch. The 30 push buttons are connected to a wire that clips on on lead to the ignite. These select which firework to ignite The other lead on the ignitors is all connected to each other and go to the panel through 1 wire. This wire connects to the other push button which I call the fire button, the lamp then the key switch.
To fire any fireworks off, I have to turn the key switch to on, This causes the lamp to turn on too. Then I have to press a firework select button, then press the fire button. I set the panel up so the fire button is away from the firework select buttons. Also the key switch stays off without the key unless I'm ready to fire away. The reason it to prevent any accidental firings.
I'm actually going to be setting up a small fireworks show tomorrow with this very panel. Should be a blast.
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