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e-cracker plate control panel

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4K views 23 replies 11 participants last post by  deoblo 
#1 ·
Well this is what i did with my e- cracker plate and it is loud and i cant wait to scare someone in my haunted maze.................just figured i'd post it to give people an idea of the plates uses......

http://youtu.be/E9ZySsqA7VE
 
#11 ·
For knife switches... it's safer if you use the physical motion of the switch to trigger the prop somehow rather than actually using the switch itself to carry 120v current... I remember hearing a story about someone who set up a "mad science lab" in his basement as a kid with a knife switch, wound up getting his skin pinched in the switch and fried his arm really badly.
 
#16 ·
i'm going to love to see it .....and with the knife switch are you guys going to have a scarer do it or will you make them pull the switch ??? i was also thinking it might be cool if i take the e-crackers and make them a little longer and make them look like t-n-t and set them off with a plunger like someones going to blow them up ....i think plungers the right word ????
 
#17 ·
Mine will be activated by the TOT's. The knife switch will be the centerpiece of an "interactive" frankenstein lab. The interactive portion consists of multiple switches, knobs and buttons that the TOT can activate on a control panel that is safely segregated from the actual props. Each will do something unique. I will have two triggers (for two scenes) that will control four props. Everything will be low voltage to be safe. After Frankenstein gets zapped, the whole scene will terminate with an exploding fuse box. I disassembled my e-cracker plate and put them in an actual (non-functional) fuse box. I will have an actor playing the part of the mad scientist. He will oversee the scene.
 
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