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I have had good results with the new starters, EXCEPT for clusters, and I use a 12 v source. My success rate for the new starters on single motor ignition went waaaay up when I started following John McCoy’s (aka Der Micromeister) advice on using a wadding plug pushed in the a pencil tip rather than the plastic plugs that come with the motor (added benefit, no plastic plugs to clean up after launch, the little piece of wadding disappears, for all practical purposes.)I continue to have flawless* performance of the Estes starters at club launches with 12V systems. That said, I would prefer to use real flaming igniters for clusters.
*I had one failure last week, but it looked like the starter may not have been installed correctly, as opposed to an actual failure.
That said, I tried a three engine cluster using First Fire Minis yesterday, and only one lit, and I wasn’t always 100% successful with the old Quest Q2G2s, surprisingly.