Good examples, Ralph. Thanks.
I didn't think about model rocket fuse. I did find a source of fuse material on the internet. It's interesting but fuse material can be shipped and 100' is about $20. I didn't know there were that many different types of firecracker and pyro effect fuses. :D I like the idea of the rocket fuse though. We have a large hobby store not to far from where I live. I'll check them out.
I did a dry run today with a length of green fuse out of a bottle rocket. It was about 2.5 inches long and wasn't as bright as I thought it would be and didn't burn as fast. That's good. I've found in my research that there are very bright and very fast burning fuses that are used for specific purposes (like connecting groups of firecrackers together where one lights the next), but that normal firecracker fuse burns for about 2.5 seconds per inch. I didn't take any pictures today, I just wanted to see how it burned and how much smoke it gave off. It gave off more smoke than I had hoped, so I might have to set up a fan to blow it away from the camera. I also checked out how far any sparks get thrown. I plan on using my 70-200 2.8L lens, so the camera will be well back but still give me a good size image.
Thanks for the suggestions. I did a lot of google searches on the internet, but between examples of firecrackers exploding (which isn't what I want) and some movie that kept coming up, there wasn't a lot. I did learn a lot of history about firecrackers though. :D I always get sidetracked when I do searches on the internet.
Mike
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