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......
Thanks for the comments ...... industen make a awsome plug and play wireless 4 outlet plug thats going to run the control panel and the fuse box when i'm done...
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.
He's got a level sticking down from the side of the switch that goes through a hole in the base, and presses a button. All the electrical stuff is safely out of the way, the knife switch is just for show.
The knife switch is connected to a booboxflex 4 input. This will trigger the start of the routine. No way I would run 120v to a knife switch, that is just crazy.
Awesome prop! I appreciate the way the needles dance on the meters. I'll be unveilling my e-cracker prop in the near future. Like "Industen", my prop is activated by a knife switch. I'm comfortable using with the 12 VDC Boo Box trigger.
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 ????
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.
Curious what you used to make the volt meters move?
A computer power supply and some different size capacitors maybe?
I like the scattered movement it distracts you until SNAP!