Here is a quick and dirty RT animation

[CRySyS]

One; I can't believe I'm the first one to actually make one of these for the RT.
Two; it's like I said in the title, quick and dirty. I couldn't sleep and whipped this up in a couple of hours while watching Insomniac. (Dave Attell is the MAN!)
Three; I know the on/off is wrong. It doesn't really affect the rest of the animation so I don't care. I think the average mag user can figure out that it should start higher.
Four; this has really clarified certain aspects of the RT valve for me. Before, I treated it like a more complicated AIR valve. Now I am both baffled and full of respect for the designer(s). Baffled that someone figured this thing out in the first place! ;)

Anyway, I hope this helps you understand what's going on in your gun. Goodnight. :sleeping:

http://www.flagstation.com/images/RTflow.gif

PS. If the on/off or general grubbiness of the animation bothers you then fix it! I did this with GIMP and GAP. GIMP is a free alternative to Photoshop and GAP is an animation package for GIMP that will let you save the gif as an animation. Don't be an internet hater, do something!

[FinchMan]

nice job.

I sometimes wonder if the slam-fill effect of the RT valve could be used for other guns. Does it only really work for spool valves? or will it help for poppet-based guns too? :confused:


anyways... good job on making it.

[CRySyS]

I sometimes wonder if the slam-fill effect of the RT valve could be used for other guns. Does it only really work for spool valves? or will it help for poppet-based guns too?

We discussed it here (http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17048) five years ago.(Holy crap, I'm getting old!) The pics are all deprecated now but here is the one I made:

http://www.flagstation.com/images/miniRTinline.jpg

Of course, if you wanted to make a new reg from the ground up, you could simplify things quite a bit. I was going for a parts compatible version there.

The company that made the War Machine gun supposedly had a reactive reg . It had a seperate pilot line running back from the gun to control the piston. Anyone ever had one of those apart?

I think if it was really much faster than current gen regs on the market we would see one by now, or perhaps we already do. Isn't the design at it's root a balanced reg, where only the output pressure affects the piston? Where the RT improved automag performance is in carrying the unregged air all the way to the last restriction, the on/off assembly; something that doesn't exist in an inline reg.