Wondering if anyone has experience with an entire 'batch' of commercial ematches not igniting, and if so what might be the cause? I was doing a ground test last week and two of the charges didn't fire. I verified it wasn't due to my ignition system, and then made up a couple fresh charges - which also didn't fire. Ultimately, I ended up test-firing ematches from other batches (with success) and went through 5 or 6 from this particular batch with no success. These are the standard orange wire with red plastic end cap variety - I've never had that happen before. Seems like it would have to be a manufacturing issue to have a 100% failure rate (?) Anyway, I'll be sacrificing at least one to test from every batch I buy going forward - lesson learned.
Edit: the issue was my ignition system not the ematches - see post #12 below.
Edit: the issue was my ignition system not the ematches - see post #12 below.
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