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07-16-2021, 11:00 PM
Here is our 2021 Pyromusical "Play With Fire" This followed the "Yankee Doodle" show we posted earlier.
With the ongoing DIY kitchen/home remodel, I didn't allocate as much time as I would have liked for fireworks - I bit off a bit more than I could chew. Rather than having a sound track ready back in February, my first cut was June 3rd. The scripting started June 13th in the evenings and finally done on June 30th when I started printing labels.
My wife may be too supportive of this hobby :cool: When suggesting we cut out two segments. Abby wasn?t in "agreement" - so I took vacation starting on June 30th and worked nearly all day. I?d jump in the pool around 2am, sleep for a few hours in the treehouse, and then get back to prepping. I wasn't "allowed" back into the house until 2am on July 5th :eek:
Unknown to me, Abby convinced a good elementary/HS friend of mine to come out a few days earlier for a business trip. He surprised me on Friday, crashed at our place and got as little sleep as I did. Most of this wouldn't have happened without his help.
I still found some time to take the kids down to the a fireworks tent and let them pick up a few items - which we do every year. It is tough to balance the pressure of putting the show together and the time crunch, but still letting the kids enjoy similar excitement and enjoyment of fireworks. My youngest two are most into it, and I hope to keep that excitement going. My daughter could light off the flying spinners all day long.
So here is the show - overall I'm very pleased with what we did
I think I most enjoy Segment 2 Play With Fire and Segment 7 Blue on Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwO1qI0MFpU
Equipment
1 FTM-99S Controller and FTKontrol App on a Kindle Fire provided Audio to the mixing board
2 FTQ-16x64 Modules
9 FTH-48Fx Modules
2 FTH-48E Modules
1 FTQ-4x16 Module - its tiny (3.5"x 3.5"x.75")
http://www.pyrotalk.com/bulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=5904&stc=1
Script
1000+ events (Pyro & DMX) in the script, some pyro condensed with parallel rails.
800+ igniters
8 fused racks of cannisters
Noticeable issues & Successes:
There was no script testing - even for DMX, and not much auditing of the script either. It was a script-and-go year. With all the hassle and scramble there were 79 cues worth of items pulled during setup!!!! :( I had the equipment but due to time and some mistakes I made late one night on little sleep, they got pulled. However, nearly everything that made it on the field went off as it should and most of the segments ended clean. There were some green and yellow meteors that were mis-wired - you?ll see them. I screwed up on the script for a RH mine near the end. There is an 60s blue flame that was mis-wired and in the wrong segment. I had a single shot that didn?t fire- match popped - not sure what happened. And I had one cake that didn?t go - looks like the match was pulled out during setup or when watering down of the field. And, one fountain that didn?t fire - reason still uninvestigated.
I color organized many of the consumer cannisters. Unfortunately some of them were miss labeled by the manufacture (This I'm sure of). There are two that really annoy me when I watch it.
The script-and-go DMX approach had some issues and is not recommended ;). I made some mistakes - you will see one machine never fire. There were some other sequences that didn't fire either due to my mistakes, but the DMX still turned out reasonably well. It is frustrating because last year I had 100% success with the DMX devices.
But this year had a lot of successes to - mostly Huge neighborhood support. It was unreasonably hot and dry for our area. We watered things down good on our property and neighbors property with +1200ft of hose and sprinklers - luckily the well didn't go dry. But we also had the fire department come by just before we started with a water truck and they stayed for the show. There were no fires - other than the opening zipper cake. I woke up on the 5th at 2pm and many neighbors had come over and cleaned most everything up. We've received some nice letters and even a nice medallion from the local police department - that showed up today.
http://www.pyrotalk.com/bulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=5903&stc=1
With the ongoing DIY kitchen/home remodel, I didn't allocate as much time as I would have liked for fireworks - I bit off a bit more than I could chew. Rather than having a sound track ready back in February, my first cut was June 3rd. The scripting started June 13th in the evenings and finally done on June 30th when I started printing labels.
My wife may be too supportive of this hobby :cool: When suggesting we cut out two segments. Abby wasn?t in "agreement" - so I took vacation starting on June 30th and worked nearly all day. I?d jump in the pool around 2am, sleep for a few hours in the treehouse, and then get back to prepping. I wasn't "allowed" back into the house until 2am on July 5th :eek:
Unknown to me, Abby convinced a good elementary/HS friend of mine to come out a few days earlier for a business trip. He surprised me on Friday, crashed at our place and got as little sleep as I did. Most of this wouldn't have happened without his help.
I still found some time to take the kids down to the a fireworks tent and let them pick up a few items - which we do every year. It is tough to balance the pressure of putting the show together and the time crunch, but still letting the kids enjoy similar excitement and enjoyment of fireworks. My youngest two are most into it, and I hope to keep that excitement going. My daughter could light off the flying spinners all day long.
So here is the show - overall I'm very pleased with what we did
I think I most enjoy Segment 2 Play With Fire and Segment 7 Blue on Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwO1qI0MFpU
Equipment
1 FTM-99S Controller and FTKontrol App on a Kindle Fire provided Audio to the mixing board
2 FTQ-16x64 Modules
9 FTH-48Fx Modules
2 FTH-48E Modules
1 FTQ-4x16 Module - its tiny (3.5"x 3.5"x.75")
http://www.pyrotalk.com/bulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=5904&stc=1
Script
1000+ events (Pyro & DMX) in the script, some pyro condensed with parallel rails.
800+ igniters
8 fused racks of cannisters
Noticeable issues & Successes:
There was no script testing - even for DMX, and not much auditing of the script either. It was a script-and-go year. With all the hassle and scramble there were 79 cues worth of items pulled during setup!!!! :( I had the equipment but due to time and some mistakes I made late one night on little sleep, they got pulled. However, nearly everything that made it on the field went off as it should and most of the segments ended clean. There were some green and yellow meteors that were mis-wired - you?ll see them. I screwed up on the script for a RH mine near the end. There is an 60s blue flame that was mis-wired and in the wrong segment. I had a single shot that didn?t fire- match popped - not sure what happened. And I had one cake that didn?t go - looks like the match was pulled out during setup or when watering down of the field. And, one fountain that didn?t fire - reason still uninvestigated.
I color organized many of the consumer cannisters. Unfortunately some of them were miss labeled by the manufacture (This I'm sure of). There are two that really annoy me when I watch it.
The script-and-go DMX approach had some issues and is not recommended ;). I made some mistakes - you will see one machine never fire. There were some other sequences that didn't fire either due to my mistakes, but the DMX still turned out reasonably well. It is frustrating because last year I had 100% success with the DMX devices.
But this year had a lot of successes to - mostly Huge neighborhood support. It was unreasonably hot and dry for our area. We watered things down good on our property and neighbors property with +1200ft of hose and sprinklers - luckily the well didn't go dry. But we also had the fire department come by just before we started with a water truck and they stayed for the show. There were no fires - other than the opening zipper cake. I woke up on the 5th at 2pm and many neighbors had come over and cleaned most everything up. We've received some nice letters and even a nice medallion from the local police department - that showed up today.
http://www.pyrotalk.com/bulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=5903&stc=1