Hard Wired Mortar Rack

[mguerra]

I posted a video on youtube showing how to hard wire a mortar rack. You permanently affix a piece of shooting wire to your rack, and then plug that in to your field module. You plug your igniter wire in to the hardwired speaker terminal that is screwed to the mortar rack. This allows you to space your racks as far from the field module as you like, prevents the igniter wires from being kicked loose, and is basically just really cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ9yzcZRXRA

[mguerra]

Here is a variation on the hardwired mortar rack. Instead of speaker terminals you use alligator clips at the firing end. You still use speaker pins at the field module end. You can connect this to cakes or mortar racks. In other words if you don't want to mount a speaker terminal to your mortar rack, you could do this instead.The firing system you use determines how many shooting wires you can wire together per cue. For QuantumFire it is three, but I just wired up two for this demo. I also have a Sequencefire system and you can fire up to 5 igniters per cue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIciF5njwmk

[displayfireworks1]

That is interesting because I never though those little system would be able to handle such a thing, apparently they can.

[mguerra]

QuantumFire is very affordable and a great first system for wireless, remote firing. It is SO much better than hand lighting. Sequencefire is a huge jump up from QuantumFire because you can fire all 32 cues in sequence with one button push, and you can individually set a different time pause between every cue. Cobra will be my next system, for those who aren't familiar, see Cobra's website. It is fantastic.

[mguerra]

OK, here is part 3 of the hard wired mortar rack series, this time using Excal tubes in a milk crate type container:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh3SSrbljZ0