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Old 11-21-2020, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by AeroTech
How does that compare to the reliability of black powder initiators?


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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