Your Average Professional Fireworks Display

[displayfireworks1]

Here is video from my most recent fireworks display. I am calling it your average professional fireworks display because this type of display occurred in hundreds of towns across United States. You can also see why it is important to add extra light points in your finale.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7sOk65l8d4
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Here is where I told the crew to wait to be paid , down at the end of the fence with the others waiting to be paid. LOL.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za0qtntHz8U&feature=youtu.be

[displayfireworks1]

Here is a copy of a video I found on YouTube of my grand finale. It is sometimes interesting to hear an audience perceptive of your fireworks display.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B--CsIARjI

[Pyro Paul]

So Dave, does this mean we can call you the guy with the zippo lighter from Ronco? :p only kidding around, nice job on the shoot!

[displayfireworks1]

You know there are times when we think we messed up the finale and the audience may see it differently. The more I watch that finale fuse burn, the more I think it is that perchlorate fuse. I swear that fuse is everywhere now. When that finale went out , i was quick to light it , however it was Visco. If those light points were black match I could have hit them high and had faster recovery times.

[kingsixx]

To the enthusiast and the professional pyro that finale may have seemed "messed up" due to the slight break in continuity. That and the fact that we have an overwhelming desire to be perfectionists and get things 100% on the money each and every time. But to your average audience member enjoying the show, they probably didn't even notice. To them, the display went off without a hitch. Expect for the guy in the video lol.

Regardless, great display, ton of work going into those 15 minutes and I think thats what most people fail to realize.

Great job!

Sidenote, I believe Zambelli were the guys who did our display at the Cross County Shopping Center in NY this year.

[rocky99]

I'd just like to say a small wireless system is ideal to use as a "safety" for your finale. Rather than going at it with a torch and risking it starting up again in your face, you can safely reignite it from a distance. They are worth their weight in gold....even a cheap Chinese unit.

[displayfireworks1]

This is the first finale I had an issue with in a long time. Looking back I may cut the Visco fuse back on my secondary light points so when I run in to relight it, the delay will not be as long. I wish that Visco fuse would not be used on finale chains. If it had black match I could set it up so much faster. Maybe its just my view on things, the fuse on the finale chains does not look like its burns the same as it did 5 years ago.

[rocky99]

I've never seen visco on finale chains! What brand are you using? I see today some chains burn faster and some burn slower than 5 years ago. The gray 5 strand version made with perchlorate is pretty fast.

[displayfireworks1]

Here is a video from 2009 out of New Jersey. All finale strings had Visco starting fuse. I remember building this finale. There was Visco fuse on all of the finale chains. When I connected the finale chains I remove the Red protective cap and placed the Visco directly into "Blue" chain port end of the proceeding chain. Then I taped it shut. Now watch how it burns. Sometimes it delayed and sometimes it did not. You can follow it in the video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvIUpjiF2s
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Here is one from about 2 years ago. On this one I painstakingly cut all of the Visco fuse and used my penny wrappers to connect the quick match directly together from one chain to the other. You can see the burn flow a little nicer.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiS7wHFENJU
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It would be interesting to hear from some other workers in the professional setting on this. Are all of these finale chains supplied with Visco and not black match ends?
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I am unsure what direction to go on this in the future. I believe these were Sunny fireworks

[Forti1bs]

I have to agree about not seeing visco on finale chains, I can't stand it on 1.3g, period, but on fanale chains is ridiculous! You never know how fast, or slow it will burn, but with black match leaders it is a bit more predictable. Personally, if I can get away with it, I cut off the visco. As for timing, it is hard to have a perfectly timed hand lit show. If you are all e-fire that is the expectation, but my experience is the general public usually cannot discern a slight delay, a major problem, yeah they will notice... I must also say, until I started doing shows, I had no idea how much work went into a display and I tend to appreciate them all more now, knowing what goes into making it all happen.

[displayfireworks1]

Here is a video clips from 2011. Using a different technique to refine hand firing fireworks shells by cutting the fuse and extending the fusee.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15vZqabCLbw&feature=youtu.be

[Pyro Paul]

oh the memories... only then I guess we weren't doing it safely... Steel, reloading, stabbing directly into the quick match with a flare on a 4 ft stick... but then that was all pre 911 and I guess we didn't know any better. It sure was fun though :)

[yoshisbar]

Dave here is another interesting twist to your dilemma. I have a ground zero of the memorial day show we did of the 3" finale. Boom Boom, row to row nice flow, fills the sky, ports OR visco(old stock 2014 or 2015, you know where I buy from). NOW move on to july, I got more finale chains, 3" NEW STOCK, right off the boat (dated march 2017), guess what PERCHORLATE QM with visco and a port! And these things were so fast the smoke can't get out of the way to see the shell. I mean like an all at one slice cake times sixty, TERRIBLE, I boom and 10 shells go off. I actually had each row on a separate hit so I could slow them down and see them instead of a big smoke bomb in the sky...

[displayfireworks1]

Someone in United States told me if China wants to give us this fuse we have to take it, someone in Europe told me to keep my mouth shut about that fuse so they don't try to stop the importation of product and slow the flow of product by trying to regulate against it. What I would like to know is , is Sunny Fireworks using this perchlorate fuse? I do not like that fuse. As matter of fact the quality of a lot of fuse even on some consumer products looks terrible at times. Thanks for that update.

[Kenny East]

My wizard brand shells this year had perchlorate qm in all the ematch ports, but the main leader to the shell was 5 strand black match... Thought it was odd that they used two different types of qm on shells in the same case. My dominator 1.4 pro cakes had gray qm as well... All fired ok, just thought it was interesting