Do you want to upgrade your consumer fireworks show to more than just lighting each item, one a time? Would you like to really knock your audience's socks off?
Well, if you have the right equipment and supplies, you can actually create a fireworks display as good as or better than the professional ones that you see on the Fourth of July. Look at what my friends Ron Silva and Danny Clark did, using nothing but consumer fireworks. By the way, their displays are consistent first-place winners at the Pyrotechnics Guild International's annual competitions.
Phantom
Pirates of Carribbean
Both of those shows rival the very best musically choreographed shows done by fireworks professionals anywhere.
Use extra mortar tubes to launch your reloadables, festival balls, and artillery shells. Lower cost cardboard firework tubes can be treated with polyurethane or varnish and last a very long time, if you take care of them. Most professional fireworkers use HDPE mortars, with sturdy wooden plugs glued and screwed into the bottom. Recently, very affordable and tough fiberglass mortar tubes have arrived on the scene from China.
All of your fireworks mortar tubes will need to be built into sturdy wooden mortar racks. You can learn to make mortar racks yourself, or save time by ordering ready made mortar racks. Professionals have dozens or hundreds of these racks in every display. You never seem to have enough. Typically our customers will gradually add more mortars and racks every year, until they have enough for any fireworks display they might be shooting.
Many fireworks people start the process of making their shows more professional by first connecting multiple firework devices together with fireworks fuse, so that the fireworks fire at nearly the same time. To do that, you will need various kinds of firework fuse. Fireworks fuses come in different types and burn speeds. Be sure and get several hundred feet of standard American Visco fuse (sometimes called cannon fuse or hobby fuse) or Chinese Visco safety fuse. You will also need some fast yellow Visco fuse and fast paper fuses. If you live near Skylighter (northern Virginia), you may even want to come by and pick up some Quickmatch, the fastest of all the fuses (sorry, it cannot be shipped, but you can make quickmatch yourself).
In the videos above you will see many fireworks fired exactly at the same time. This is done using an electrical fireworks firing system. Electrically controlled fireworks displays require three basic components: an electrical firing control box, shooting wire to connect various fireworks, and electric matches to ignite fuses or fireworks. Skylighter offers different types of firing systems to suit your needs. Remote (wireless) firing systems are arguably the most convenient to use. Cable systems are the most reliable and safest.
At the fireworks end, it is an electric match that produces the fire that ignites each firework device. Whether connected directly to the firework or to its fuse, the ematch is a necessary part of your electrical firing system. You can only use an electric match one time, so depending on the complexity of your fireworks display, you may need a few or hundreds of fireworks igniters. Although commercially made ematches are available, you need a BATF explosives license to buy them, and Skylighter does not carry them. Instead, Skylighter offers electric match kits for you to make your own. These are legal and do not require an ATF license.
As you professionalize your fireworks displays, you can opt to play music in the background. As long as you have a good sound system, this is an easy way to add emotional impact and excitement to your show. Eventually, you may even make the leap to computer controlled remote firework ignition. These high-end systems let you time your fireworks so that they launch or explode in time to the music. This is the ultimate in fireworks displays today.
3/32 inch nominal (.094 inch, 2.5 mm actual) diameter, Chinese made firework fuse, also called cannon fuse, visco or "wick." Burns at about 1.7 seconds per inch. Excellent, high quality fuse, gives a lot of fire, very lightly coated with nitrocellulose laquer (not waterproof).
Excellent for chaining festival ball mortar shells and Class C cakes together to make your Fourth of July display faster and more fun. If you cannot get quickmatch for shell leaders, you may want to try Fast Visco instead. Yellow, 3/32 inch nominal (.10 inch, 2mm actual) diameter, Chinese made fuse. Burns at about 1/2 second per inch or faster (5-10 times faster than standard American visco). It is colored yellow so you do not mix it up with other, slower-burning fuses. Gives a lot of fire, not coated with nitrocellulose laquer. DO NOT USE THIS FUSE IN PLACE OF STANDARD VISCO--IT BURNS *MUCH* FASTER.
This is an angled mortar rack, with 1.91 ID x approximately 15 inches long mortar tubes with wooden plugs in the bottom of each. Use these for consumer festival ball shells (reloadables) which are 1.88" in outer diameter or smaller. IMPORTANT: If your shells are smaller than 1.75", use TU2100 spiral cardboard tubes. Firing too small a shell from too large a tube can cause a low-break. Low breaks can cause personal injury or fires being started.
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5 strands of black match encased in a two-ply sleeve; the inner layer is paper, the outer layer is waterproof plastic. 65 feet in a compact coil, 9 inches in diameter. The best quality quickmatch we have ever had.
CANNOT BE SHIPPED. MUST BE PICKED UP AT OUR WAREHOUSE.
1.91 ID x 11-3/4 inches long with wooden plug in bottom, they will be orange or black. Use these for consumer festival ball shells (reloadables) which are 1.75-1.90 inches in outside diameter. IMPORTANT: If your shells are smaller than 1.75", use TU2100 spiral cardboard tubes. Firing too small a shell from too large a tube can cause a low-break. Low breaks can cause personal injury or fires being started.
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These spiral wound mortar tubes are perfect for firing our #5 plastic shells as well as other 2" shells. Use with the PL2005 plastic base or a 2" wooden plug.
This is a pre-measured selection of all the pyrotechnic chemicals needed to make electric matches, using GN5030 Ematch Heads or GN5040 Ematch Heads With Wires. Follow the simple directions to mix the two-part pyrogen, and you can be making electric matches in ten minutes. Each Dip Kit contains enough material to make about 300-500 finished electric matches. 3 components in 3 separate bottles in each kit.
Hey, Just wanted to let you know that I tried out the new ematch dip kit - absolutely awesome. Never had to thin it, dried in minutes even in the Pacific Northwest 50 degree 80% humidity weather and 100% success on firing them. Also the instructions are fantastic… photo's.. Now who would have ever thought of those!!! --Best Regards,
Chuck Briggs
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Electric match chips with 0.3 meter (approximately 1 foot) lead wires soldered on. The match chips have a nichrome wire soldered on (48-49 gauge, 0.035mm). These ematches use standardized current requirements for commercial ematches: 20mA can be used to test the ematch without firing, 1A will always fire the ematch. Each chip/head is covered by a plastic protective shroud, which slides up and down the wires. Finished ematches are sensitive to friction and shock. When covering the ematch head, the shroud helps to prevent accidental ignition of the ematch. There is no pyrotechnic composition (pyrogen) on these chips. Use the pyrogen in Skylighter's Ematch Dip Kit for most reliable results. 40 each in a plastic bag.
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2-wire, solid copper, 22 gauge. Sometimes called zip wire, scab wire, or pyrotechnic wire. Yellow or Pink insulated. Red polarity stripe on one wire. Used for connecting electric matches to slats or to electrical firing systems.
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