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[Draco_Americanus]

personaly I dislike the idea of using infared light to controll sutch a thing. I have built one channel igniters that used RF, they tend to me a lot more complicated and can still be prone to not working in a reliable manner. In the case of fireworks sometimes going "wireless" is not the best way to go.
Personaly I would love to find one of the old "blast engines" that you see all the time in cartoons. In the past I found one but it was too expensive. I had thought about a digital countdown timer but deemed that unsafe for the simple reason that you are not in direct contact with the igniter to do an emergancy abort if needed.

[Kembang Api]

Hi Guys,
you need to be able to make a good e-match that fire using 1.5 volts battery,
before deciding to make a firing system. otherwise you will making too big of a system.
For 1 cue system, all you need is just a push button switch, cable and a battery.
If you need info, send me an email.

[The Swedish Scientist]

I've made one out of a switch with a red safety cap. I mounted it on top of a sawn-off bike handle, and made an index finger hold-to-arm-switch, and a ring to protect that switch from impacts.

it looks kind of... suicidal?

anyway, I wired it to a 12v battery unit (made from 1.2v rechargeable batteries), which is enough to ignite a chemical universal bridgeless igniter.

I'm confused, how did the reusable electrical fuse-igniter work?

Got an idea; using a car part which generates 30KV shocks from a 12V input, and an IR remote system (available at a gadget shop near you), one could make a remote-controlled reliable ignition system. There is just one problem with it; REMEMBER TO INSULATE EVERYTHING, even the wires going into the igniter! 30.000 volts can jump!

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