11-21-2020, 10:53 AM
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Sometimes collector
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Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 1,786
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Originally Posted by AeroTech
How does that compare to the reliability of black powder initiators?
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There are two (Modern) universes of Estes initiators, the older pyrogen tipped ones and the more recent non pyrogen. I estimate my pyrogen imitators were successful more than 95% of the time, the misfires were caused by mainly breaking the bridge wire putting in the nozzle plug or the leads getting twisted putting on the clips, and a very small percentage where there was clay in the nozzle. I haven’t used many of the newer initiators (because I want to use oldest first), but there are many reports of users having misfires with the non pyrogen version, so much so that Estes wil be releasing a new pyrogen version.
However, keep in mind that Estes includes extra initiators with motor three packs, so having a single misfire is less critical.
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