How can I attach a stopperball in front line?

[evan]

Ah, you meant the stopper at the bracket. Not the stopper Ozone uses 7m up the flagout line to prevent the bar from shooting all the way up to the kite. In that case forget my post.

Easiest is to buy those:
https://ozonekites.net/proddetail.asp?p ... opper_ball
https://ozonekites.net/proddetail.asp?p ... er_bracket

Make sure you use 3mm dyneema for the flagout bungee that goes through the bar as the Ozone stopper ball relies on a thick enough rope to not get pulled through the tiny hole in the nylon stopper ball.

Don't use the Naish/F-One brackets that don't use a stopper. The direct contact of the flying line with the brackets chews up your line in no time.


Extra line like in A3 is only used by brands that have a wrongly designed chickenloop (north/duotone) where the flagout hole through the QR is too small to fit the loop-loop connection, jamming everything.

[kite_hh]

Well, I made the "bracket part"(second link) myself with a shackle and a pulley. So no need to order that. And a stopper ball is also already in my possession.

I still like A3 because of the simplicity. Two equal power lines, a dedicated safety line, no loop connection for anything to get stuck on, no constant load on any part of the safety, no load on any plastic ball, it just seems like the best of two worlds.

Only challenge is to attach the safety on the powerline. I guess some splicing similar to this should do the trick? ( )

[edt]

That splice is fine. Let us know how it works!

I wouldn't do it that way just because you are using s lot more line and line is expensive

[ap888]

At the same stage also... going to use this method...will stop at black divider...don’t see anything wrong with it...will flag all the way to the kite which no big deal as long as it flags out....have never pulled QR since 2007 won’t be butt hurt if the lines get tangled and have to swim in

[edt]

You do realize that to safely flag out a single center line kite, you need the length of the flagout line to be the width of the kite or higher. So for instance, a 7m kite requires about 4 meters of flagging while a 20 meter kite requires about 10 meters of flagging. If the line only goes to the control bar that means you will have to be running a "High Y" system where that steel brace is about 10 meters up the lines. Or you can run your flagout line not inside the hole in the control bar but outside it this means you can't spin the bar freely as it will tangle your flag out line.

[ap888]

Yeah just thinking now not going to flag out enough well better do A3 or something else

[Laughingman]

Yeah just thinking now not going to flag out enough well better do A3 or something else

Yah thats not gonna work to well, good news is all you need is the stopper ball and your done!

on second thought. actually that line is sheathed... you will likely not be able to use a sheathed line to pull through the stopper ball

[edt]

ozone sells the bracket here:

https://ozonekites.net/proddetail.asp?p ... er_bracket

if you want to use their bracket.

stopper ball here

https://ozonekites.net/proddetail.asp?p ... opper_ball

[ap888]

Yeah thanks have that ordered already for my bigger carbon bar...but have an idea... have the line connected with splice both sides of ring then attach flag line to the ring

[edt]

You can do something like that the problem is when you make this high Y you end up not having lines with equal length. It's very nice to have all your control bars using lines that are all equal in length. It means you can make a spare line set ahead of time, and the no matter which control bar has lines wearing out you can go ahead and swamp in the new lines immediately. If you end up having a bunch of lines where the line lengths are all different you can't swap in new lines like that. I assume you are going to use the double O ring system, with a single center flagging line with a high Y. That's a system that slingshot used around 2014-2016 I can't remember the exact year.