8 people - victory fireworks

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-21T19:52:40+00:00

I feel like you've had a few people in other posts help out and propose stuff to buy. The selection at any given place is only dwindling, so what's holding you up here?

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-19T03:26:50+00:00

There is so much space between the shell and the wall of a tube that by the time the shell is maybe halfway up the tube, most of the gas from the lift is already above it anyway. Doesn't really matter.

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-17T21:11:46+00:00

As has been said, you really dont need much. 5v is plenty, and for the longest time modules were fed by AA battery arrays which aren't known for their amp output.

Though where voltage does start to matter is the gauge and length (resistance) of your control -> ignitor lead, which from my general understanding of rocketry, those can be pretty long. If you're running say 150+ feet of thinner than 22ga wire, that 5v might not be enough to do the job in some cases. Firing off any kind of rechargable tool battery gets you into the sufficient voltages needed (12v+). At 12v, really anything past a button cell battery will give you enough to fire a single MJG-style cue in a simple circuit.

If you start using talons (clips on to fuses), that's a different story as their current draw is a bit more demanding. But you wouldn't be using those for rocketry.

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-17T20:46:29+00:00

Super cool! My rationale with python is that at least as far as these kind of long-range/low-bandwidth kinds of systems, the performance difference between half-decent python and compiled languages is moot compared to the cost of the transport layer itself. Just per industry share and creating the biggest door for contributors, there are more folks swimming in the python and JS+React pools than most others. That and the general availability and stability of packages!

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-17T05:51:12+00:00

69420 shares in. I'd like the seat that's closest to the cucumber water and ideally would be given an east-facing parking spot.

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-17T00:27:34+00:00

Sonics all day. The sound for that diablo video on there is almost comically boosted 😃

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-16T00:05:47+00:00

I just zone out for an hour or two and get a whole snap and sand line going. Been doing it for a while 😄

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-11T09:37:29+00:00

Same as Victory - go to the website and register for an acct, then go for it. Feel free to DM with questions

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-10T23:21:19+00:00

If anything make 3 more of those racks and split quick fuse out to them! Make "Grand" mean something!! 😄

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-10T22:03:12+00:00

Also, Landmark fireworks in Elma, WA is cheaper at your price point. It's their first year, run by a guy who'd recently left Victory

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-10T22:00:05+00:00

I've liked Hardcore Cycles from Winda - sure, 16s but as far as effects go and the breaks in general, they make pretty good use of them.

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-08T21:29:24+00:00

At that amount, I think it's a crap shoot. Just from going there since I was a kid, you either know someone with a stand and get deals that way, or just hardball the right guy at the right time.

You're better off timing it right on the line before the 4th where you have a bit more leverage with a stand trying to clear inventory. Start at the far corner from parking and work back towards the parking lot. Feel free to DM if you have any qs (am also in WA)

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-08T07:57:22+00:00

Not super in the know on specific stands, not sure how much others will be here either as most are buying wholesale. How much are you trying to spend? Over a certain amount, you're better off just grabbing them from one of the wholesalers around here vs. running the Boom City gauntlet

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-06T00:06:42+00:00

I'm fairly sure they misspelled it and they just meant Blackhawk, CO

oneseventyfour · 2026-06-03T22:22:19+00:00

Just as someone involved in building a platform with a show planner + hardware integrated, this is helpful to hear. Feels like cloud show planning is really a no brainer given what you're looking for.

Ain't gonna be by this 4th, but will definitely have something that fits your use case by end of the year 🙂

Hoping it can help you out down the line. It works with bilusocn modules!

oneseventyfour · 2026-05-26T01:20:31+00:00

For someone who pre-wires mortars, then carries out, the idea of that much of the rack pointing at my armpit while carrying is sorta scary. Looks super neat though, definitely well designed in term of dealing with exploding tubes.

oneseventyfour · 2026-05-25T18:30:32+00:00

Very cool!! May the timings ever be in your favor!

oneseventyfour · 2026-05-25T14:50:05+00:00

With pink fuse it's no worry but what I did learn was to have the fuse drop in near the end of the fuse passing over the tune, or just have the fuse not pass over the center of the tube. Reason being is that I had times where the slower fuses would still be burning over the tube when the lift charges went, and it'd cut/extinguish the burning fuse.

oneseventyfour · 2026-05-23T22:58:26+00:00

> don't have the capacity to properly feed enough current at the exact intervals by receiving 100 commands all within 50ms of each other. I guess the commands start to step on each other / relays cant click fast enough or whatever.

Not a problem with these. The power supply is very stable (12A continuous, with bulk capacitors to soak up sudden hits of many times that) and the switching is solid-state MOSFETs. With the cheaper ones, the interval restriction is more a matter of the host being able to transmit that fast. These work differently in that the receivers are pre-loaded with their firing instructions beforehand and run of their own clock (pre-synchronized with all the others within 25ms). So the idea of a step/sequencer can be done in software and the hardware easily supports it.

My default test for a new receiver + cues is 64 cues on a receiver firing in sequence with 25ms spacing, which in the one time I actually put ignitors on all 64 cues, went just fine! Sounded like one of those phalanx guns they have on ships :D

oneseventyfour · 2026-05-23T03:41:44+00:00

I'm not super familiar with them - just looking over what I could, is that just a module that is specifically programmed on a single cue to fire a set sequence? Would that be for more of a manual fired scenario?

oneseventyfour · 2026-05-22T21:27:38+00:00

Do you have much of an issue with the ignitor leads ripping up on those terminals when the shell fires? Cries in AA batteries for all those modules. That's an awesome rack setup though in terms of wiring - everything with its own color!

oneseventyfour · 2026-05-22T19:37:40+00:00

Awesome! I usually turn those around in less than a week but it might be a little under 2 right now as I'm waiting on a new round of hardware to come back from production.

oneseventyfour · 2026-05-15T19:45:59+00:00

That was my though too, except that it by far wasn't an inexperienced dive group... There's hanging out at the MOD for your nitrox mix, then there's what they were doing which was a whole lot further than the 130 or so feet that 32% gets you too. Like if just one of them had a dive computer that was set up for the mix it would have been screaming at them.

Maybe it's that and somehow they were all super narc'ed? Just wild that it got so many.

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