There's an interesting question. The use of wireless comms, and fairly standard for a linear show would be to jam-sync the time/timecode. But safety, since...
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Jerry Durand
jerry_durand...
Jul 9, 2012 4:57 pm
There's different systems in use, one system I know of preloads the cue list into the remote/field units and then sends time code by wireless. The field units...
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Jerry Durand
jerry_durand...
Jul 9, 2012 5:02 pm
Just out: "Santore said that late Sunday night, the manufacturer of the responsible equipment finally pinned down the problem to a much more specific...
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John Huntington
jhuntington_...
Jul 10, 2012 3:25 am
There's now a very strange statement on the "Big Bay Boom" website. http://www.bigbayboom.com/ It uses the word "I" and has some weird typos but never...
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Richard B. Ingraham
rbi71
Jul 10, 2012 7:54 am
One would hope that their worst nightmare would be someone being injured, rather than just a big embarrassment. Or was someone injured? I would prefer to...
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Dougherty, Jim
jimd_vt
Jul 10, 2012 4:35 pm
Nothing to do with fire control, but the most “interesting” fireworks show I ever attended did have one of the roman candles tip and start shooting at the...
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Dave
lightingismy...
Jul 10, 2012 8:40 pm
That's nothing, how about a large cake exploding sending stars every were now that was exciting. Or a cake breaking apart and then fires balls toward the...
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David Russell
tahoedaver
Jul 11, 2012 3:08 pm
To be fair, it's not uncommon for a candle or cake to flip over and start firing sideways. A lot more care is taken these days to sandbag or otherwise tie...
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brucek
jodinbruce
Jul 11, 2012 6:43 pm
As long as we are picking on pyro companies. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/07/massachusetts_suspends_firewo r.html WARE -...
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John Huntington
jhuntington_...
Jul 11, 2012 8:46 pm
... Looks like the pic was stripped off, can you upload somewhere? Thanks! John -- -- www.controlgeek.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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David Russell
tahoedaver
Jul 11, 2012 8:48 pm
Ah, you're right. Here's a link: http://s1167.photobucket.com/albums/q638/kabumei/ David Russell From: Show-Control@yahoogroups.com...
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David Russell
tahoedaver
Jul 11, 2012 8:53 pm
I just saw the "Official"; explanation for the SD30. http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2012/07/nj_company_computers_thought_t.html From the pyro mailing list ...
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John Huntington
jhuntington_...
Jul 11, 2012 8:58 pm
Thanks for posting! I love the "unintentional additional procedural step" comment :-) But I do commend Garden State for putting out detailed info. Does anyone...
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John Huntington
jhuntington_...
Jul 11, 2012 9:02 pm
... I was wondering the same thing! John -- -- www.controlgeek.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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David B. Nelson
dave.derryarts
Jul 11, 2012 9:08 pm
Merged primary and secondary firing command files? Sounds like an unusual software design to me. Having a backup is important. Maybe keeping it completely...
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John Huntington
jhuntington_...
Jul 11, 2012 9:09 pm
I've got the actual Garden State Fireworks release in PDF, uploading it to my blog now, I'll post a link shortly. John ... -- -- www.controlgeek.net [Non-text...
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Nigel Worsley
nigel_worsley
Jul 11, 2012 9:23 pm
... There are three parts to the typical shell, the lift charge, the burst charge and the bit that you actually see, these seem to have been salutes so there...
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David Russell
tahoedaver
Jul 11, 2012 9:27 pm
"Duds" are not unheard of, but not that common these days either. Once they go up, if it's in a group, you may not notice one not bursting. A 6" shell rises...
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John Huntington
jhuntington_...
Jul 11, 2012 9:34 pm
Full press release posted here: http://www.controlgeek.net/blog/2012/7/11/what-happened-in-san-diego-at-the-big-bay-boom-garden-state.html John ... -- -- ...
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jdow
ferdyfubar
Jul 11, 2012 9:35 pm
PEBKAP = Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Pyro. {^_-}...
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jdow
ferdyfubar
Jul 11, 2012 9:37 pm
... I rashly presume they determine that the shells found were from pyrotechnica. One might look for differences between conditions at Ware and the other...
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John Huntington
jhuntington_...
Jul 11, 2012 9:41 pm
... Yeah reading the whole press release still leaves me confused about this "merging". Maybe someone with some experience on Fireone can shed some light on...
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jdurand@...
jerry_durand...
Jul 11, 2012 10:01 pm
On the 4th we had one dud and one slow-fire (match flame zips down into the tube and...nothing...nothing...nothing...FOOM). This was out of about 500 shells...
... Here's a picture I took in 2009, I named it Rocket Opps for what should be an obvious reason. ...
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billn@...
Jul 15, 2012 1:01 am
... Was that one of Doc B's rockets? I lit a fair number of them for him over the years - always making sure they had long fuses. I called his efforts "bombs...
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Jerry Durand
jerry_durand...
Jul 15, 2012 1:05 am
... I don't remember who's that was, but it blew the rack to pieces and destroyed a number of other rockets. -- Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc....
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Charlie Richmond
charlierichmond
Jul 19, 2012 5:18 pm
... From: MMA/IASIG Announcements <info@...> Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:07 AM Subject: MIDI Job Seeker Strategies To: charlie.rsd@... *MIDI...
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Tom White
tomwhitemma
Jul 19, 2012 5:33 pm
Hmm... sorry about this.. Not sure how this list address got on an MMA email marketing list. I have removed it now. Tom White MMA...
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jdow
ferdyfubar
Jul 19, 2012 10:07 pm
Tom, it didn't. Charlie forwarded it to this list. You're still good guys. {^_-}...
