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Old 10-22-2020, 11:13 PM
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Default Quest/Estes igniters/controller compatibility?

Hello Doctor,

This week I started the process of brainwashing...er, introducing my Physical Therapist's grandson to model rocketry. Before the regular Monday PT session, I gave her a care package containing an Estes Tandem-X Launch Set, a Quest Payloader ONE kit, and a few other Apogee Rockets, ASP, and Estes kits, along with Estes and Quest wadding, an Odd'l Rockets RAISE Spring, Stuart Lodge's and G. Harry Stine's handbooks, and a few packs of Estes 13 mm--and Estes ^and^ Quest 18 mm--motors with igniters (the Quest motors were A3-4 Q-Jets, whose packaging helpfully suggested, "Compare to [or with] A8-3"). My question is as follows:

When launching a rocket that's loaded with a Quest Q-Jet motor (with its included FirstFire Micro https://www.questaerospace.com/2-Pa...5_18338149.aspx igniter type installed), will the Electron Beam launch controller in the Estes Tandem-X Launch Set https://estesrockets.com/product/00...m-x-launch-set/ allow a normal continuity check of the Quest igniter, or will it fire as soon as the safety key is installed? (It's okay if that happens some or all of the time--I'll let them know; I just want to avoid possibly-unpleasant surprises.)

Many Thanks in advance for your help.
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