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OPCON Products
OPCON delivers a full suite of realistic training effects — blast simulation, smoke deployment, flash events, and integrated scenario systems, engineered to replicate the intense, unpredictable conditions responders face in the field. Every product is designed, manufactured, and assembled in-house by our team in San Marcos, Texas, ensuring unmatched reliability and control.
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Our hands-on development process allows us to build adaptable, high-performance tools that elevate firefighter training standards. We take pride in delivering rugged, innovative systems trusted by training facilities, departments, and response organizations that refuse to settle for anything less than real-world readiness.
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Explosive Blast Simulators
OPCON provides a comprehensive lineup of blast simulation systems capable of safely replicating a wide range of explosive events encountered during real emergency responses.
Our simulators use oxygen/propane initiation with patent-pending gas-mixing and arc-firing technology to deliver powerful, consistent, and fully controlled training effects — without the risks or expense of explosives and pyrotechnics. Built for repeatability, reliability, and real-world realism at a fraction of the cost.
Powder Containment Shells
OPCON’s Powder Containment Shells (PuCS) are purpose-built blast effect cartridges used in conjunction with our simulators to control what the “explosion” looks like. The simulator generates the sound and pressure; PuCS define the visual — smoke volume, color, flash signature, and debris-style effect, allowing instructors to match the hazard profile to the scenario.
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By swapping PuCS styles, training chiefs and facility directors can quickly transition between vehicle fires, engine compartment pops, steering column flare-offs, BLEVE-style events, and interior pressure signatures without changing hardware or burning additional props.
Each shell is designed for consistent, repeatable output, giving you tight control over visibility, intensity, and timing while keeping crews safe and focused on tactics, communication, and size-up under pressure.
Smoke & Audio Devices
The SIM-Series delivers two powerful tools for building full-sensory, high-pressure training environments:
SIM-SMK wireless smoke deployment and the Scenario Sound Kit for immersive audio.
SIM-SMK generates dense, non-toxic smoke that fills structures in seconds, creating zero-visibility conditions for search operations, RIT activations, SCBA confidence courses, and live-burn support.
The Scenario Sound Kit adds crystal-clear wireless audio for alarms, MAYDAY calls, command communications, crowd noise, and dynamic scene escalation.
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Together, these systems give training chiefs and instructors total control over realism — allowing them to create repeatable, high-impact scenarios that pressure decision-making, strengthen communication, and prepare firefighters for the chaos and urgency of real emergencies.
Smoke Products
OPCON smoke products are engineered to deliver dense, fast-building smoke clouds that transform any environment into a true zero-visibility training space.
Designed for use in both interior and exterior scenarios, these rugged smoke units create realistic conditions for search operations, RIT deployment, SCBA confidence, multi-company evolutions, and large-scale incident command training.
Each device features integrated dual activation — wire-pull and wireless E-match initiation, giving instructors total control over timing, placement, and deployment during live-fire or no-burn exercises.
Non-toxic and safe for use around personnel and role players, OPCON smoke provides the sensory pressure and urgency needed to sharpen communication, orientation, and tactical execution when visibility disappears.
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Real smoke. Real stress. Real preparation.
EXS-Series / Explosive Blast Simulators
EXS-40 / "The Man-Pack"
The EXS-40 is a single-person portable, wired or wirelessly controlled blast simulator designed to replicate small to medium vehicle fire explosions and pressure events. Its lightweight design allows for maximum mobility
EXS-60 / "The Arty Box"
The EXS-60 is a single-person portable, self-contained, wireless blast simulator built to replicate medium-intensity vehicle fire events—engine bursts, bumper pops, wheel-strut failures, and thermal escalation. Ideal for realistic vehicle fire training.
EXS-80 / "The Cannon"
The EXS-80 is a single-person portable, wirelessly controlled blast simulator built to replicate backdraft events. When paired with the mobile Fire Cart, the unit can be elevated and directed through windows or elevated openings, enabling realistic interior pressure events, window failures, and structural pops during live training environments.
EXS-400 / "The MOAB"
The EXS-400 is the largest blast simulator in the OPCON lineup, engineered for large-scale pressure events such as BLEVE scenarios. Built for major incident training, it delivers overwhelming sensory intensity and full-structure shock for multi-agency events.
SIM-Series / Wireless Effects Platforms
SIM-SMK / Wireless Smoke Initiator
The SIM-SMK is an ultra-lightweight wireless smoke deployment system engineered to rapidly inject dense, non-toxic smoke into no-burn structures and training props. It also enables instructors to add controlled smoke volume to live-burn evolutions, building realistic zero-visibility conditions on demand.
SIM-SSK / Scenario Sound Kit
The SIM-SSK is a stand-alone wireless audio unit that integrates any sound system with OPCON’s 18R2 remote platform, allowing instructors to inject realistic scene audio—alarms, MAYDAY calls, radio traffic, and crowd noise—directly into training environments for increased stress and communication pressure.
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SIM-DMX / DMX Compatible Effects Upgrade
The SIM-DMX (Digital Multiplex) is an adapter for OPCON Wireless Products used to control a variety of commercially available SPFX (Special Effects) Devices such as lighting, fog/smoke machines, and flame machines.
COBRA-Series / Wireless Accessories
18R2 / Wireless Remote
The 18R2 Wireless Remote System is OPCON's universal remote operating system for all blast simulators and initiation/effects simulators. It is capable of operating up to 1000 devices simultaneously.
6M / Wireless Receiver
The 6M Wireless Receiver comes standard with every OPCON Simulator. It enables the OPCON Power Control Box (PCB) to interact with the 18R2 Wireless Remote System while acting as a MESH system, increasing the achievable distance for firing.
SFX-Series / Smoke & Blast Special Effects
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PuCS / Powder Containment Shells
Powder Containment Shells are designed to be used in conjunction with OPCON simulators. When placed on top, the user is able to achieve different blast effects depending on the PuCS type: Earth, Target, Night-fire, CBRN, White Phosphorus.
Smoke Devices / Wire-Pull & E-Match Initiated
E-match or Wire-pull initiated smoke devices in a multitude of colors. All OPCON smoke devices are commercially available and ground shipped anywhere in the continental United States. Use independently or with OPCON SIM-SMK.
Hardware Accessories
EXS-80 Blast Cart
The Blast Cart is a fully self-contained mobile cart system for the EXS-80. It is lined with non-flammable material and designed to raise the blast simulator off the ground to be fired out of windows to replicate backdraft or building impact.
EXS-80 PuCS Adapter
The PuCS adapter is a bolt on accessory that allows PuCS to be fired from the EXS-80 at any angle. Included with the purchase of EXS-80.