Estes Sonic Igniter Pro Series II Igniters suck!

Yoehahn · Jul 26, 2013

I have had a 100% success rate on the new pro series II igniters, on everything from D reloads and SU motors to a G76 reload. All you gotta do is bend the tip and then -REDACTED- I realized there may be people reading this that might not realize that is not a smart idea what so ever.

cwbullet · Jul 26, 2013

I initially had good success with these. Not so much recently. I am near 100% (5 of 6) failure over the last 2 weeks. I am going to try and redip them in magnelite.

Derek · Jul 26, 2013

Yoehahn said:
...and pour a little FFFFg BP into the nozzle first.

I disagree. You shouldn't have to do this to these motors to ignite.

rocketguy101 · Jul 26, 2013

dgreger said:
So bend it over back onto itself, basically folding it back against itself?

no bend it 10 deg or so, when you insert it into the nozzle, you will feel it drag against the grain.

thobin · Jul 26, 2013

I have a few of these left I may re-dip in my own pyrogen. hummm...

TA

rocketguy101 · Jul 26, 2013

I thought it was a bad thing to re-dip igniters...at least the instructions for my FireStar kit warned not to re-dip.

Marc_G · Jul 27, 2013

Fwiw: I have used about one dozen sonic ignitors in a variety of single use D and E aerotech engines with only one failure, and that was user error not getting the ignitor all the way in (actually , it was all the way in but I didnt secure it properly and it came out a bit). I use a 12 V jump pack and 16 gauge wire.

TheSamurai · Jul 28, 2013

I've heard a lot of bad things about them. They don't like them at our club. I have used 2 successfully and 1 unsuccessfully. So I can't say they are as bad as some say.

patelldp · Jul 29, 2013

Yoehahn said:
I have had a 100% success rate on the new pro series II igniters, on everything from D reloads and SU motors to a G76 reload. All you gotta do is bend the tip of the igniter and pour a little FFFFg BP into the nozzle first.

NO! Please remove this comment. Quite a dangerous practice.

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