Hmm.. Makeshift Revy?

[personman]

Me and my stupid ideas strike. Well, I have been thinking.. If you drilled a hole in the back of a VL200, stuck a motor that fits the revy paddles in the hole, stick a paddle on the end, run a line down to the grip frame, drill a hole in the back of the grip frame where the palm of your hand goes, stick a electrical push switch so that only the button is showing outside the frame, and connect the wires, and connect the motor to a battery source.. well.. is it possible?(lol, please dont laf. I try to save money, thats all.. plus I dont think BE deserves to have my money.)
What I want it to do, is any time you push the button, the revy spins. methinks it would save battery power.

[personman]

*crycry* Noone can answer me!:( :( :( :( :(
GUESS IM TOO SMART FOR YOU GUYS! HAAHAH! lol, j/k

[ninja9876]

so your talkin about having the revy spin every time you pull the trigger...hum...yeah that would work. sounds like a pretty good idea actually

[personman]

no, not every time I pull the trigger, that would be an intelliframe setup. Im talking about putting a button on the back of the frame, so when I press the button, the revy spins.
read this.
http://store.airgun.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=17&Product_ID=11&CATID=5

[BEEFYSAUSAGE]

it sounds good as long as you secure the servo motor in the hopper body i dont see a problem...just think like this
WHY NOT just give it a go....but if you stuff up you could reck your hopper(if your REALY bad with a soldering iron)
or your trigger frame..but if your happy to do it give it a go..oh and if you do drill or use a soldering iron cut from
the out side in and open it up and clean up the plastic that wells on the in side witha knife..
you know i mounted intellie feed on my sterling pump just so that i had it in it as well..
BEEFY.

[personman]

I looked at the servo motor on the dropzone paintball site, and it looks like it would connect to a computer chip of som sort, right? the board and the eye. makes sense, but my switch is electrical, so it only needs 2 wires connected to it.. is there some way to convert it?
or could I just buy a good ol regular motor like the ones you can get with some solar power car kits?

[BEEFYSAUSAGE]

i have got mine hard wired (no board)i just connected the two black wires together(18volt or 2 9v batteries)ad the two red together ,conected black to one side of the servo motor and the red i conected to one side of a micro switch(any switch will work as long as it can take the power)and the other side of the switch i connected to the other terminal of the servo....you can do it with 1 9 volt battery
and it works too hope this helps(oh and i just butchered my 18 volt shredder to do it..it has worked fine for months)
BEEFY.

[personman]

I dont understand what you mean.. do you have a camera?
Here is what im talking about:
<img src="http://www.dropzonepaintball.com/assets/images/130662000s.jpg">

[BEEFYSAUSAGE]

can you take the bottom off the servo and get a shot?
unfornatily i dont have a camera but ill try to find 1
BEEFY.

[personman]

*shruggs* I dont have a servo.. I want to know if I should order it or not first.

[personman]

let me just ask 1 question.
will this work? http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F010%5F021%5F000%5F000&product%5Fid=273%2D256
specs here:
http://www.radioshack.com/SupportGate.asp?SupportPage=%2Fsupport%5Fsupplies% 2Fdoc19%2F19832%2Ehtm

[BEEFYSAUSAGE]

that picture is exacialy what you need.. if you take the bottom of of that servo you will find 2 wires connecting to 2 terminals on the moter in side the black plastic case.. all your trying to do is rig up a circuit thatconnects it to a battery ...has anyone got a simple light circuit diagram..or if you can find 1 just subitute the light bulb for the servo moter(the 1 in the picture)
BEEFY.

[personman]

So your saying the servo will work if you take off the bottom? I know a little about wirez and junk and how to set them up.. I just kinda like to make sure it works.. you sure it works? Cause the servo is kinda expensive..

[personman]

oh forget it, I will just buy a java revy. Too complicated, and everyone is just telling me to go buy a revy.

[BEEFYSAUSAGE]

if i had one you would laugh at how easy it is but i dont ....so go and buy the revie as it will save you time and hastle
BEEFY.

[personman]

I know it would be easy, but everyones like :
What if you got shot in the motor or What if you got shot and it hit the batterys.
and stuff like that, and ppl are saying 20 bucks for equipment and your time isnt worth it, just buy a used one in the classified. Well, If Im buying a revy, it might as well be new.

[RJR99SS]

ok, i've been up for about 28 hours now, so my judgement may be impaired....but here it goes.

yeah you could do all that work and make it work i'm sure. But i thought the main advantage of having a power loader was that it senses when the hopper needs to be "stirred" and does it automatically.

Now with your setup, you'd shoot just air and realize your hopper needs a little shake so you'd push your little switch right?

Well....wouldnt it be cheaper just to give the gun a little shake with your own two hands....?

Back to my earlier point, the purpose of the powerhoppers is that they sense when there isnt going to be a ball going into the gun and prevent that from happening right? in your setup you'd find out the hard way it needs adgitated then go through a complex series of electrical motors and batteries and mountings....etc to stir it up; when you can just shake that sucker with your god given paintball hopper agitators right?

hope that made sense....

[Dealaman]

Why would you want to put the switch on the grip instead of the hopper?

[personman]

cause if was on the hopper you would have to take your hand off the mag and hold the button down on the hopper

[Mossman]

alrihgt, listen. the problem with your idea is that revies work by them selves, when you fire fast enough to clear the balls in your feed neck with out giving them a chance to fall down on their own. this is precisely the time you dont want to be pressing a button. i think if you got a nice small quiet motor that can handle 9v....put it maybe facing upright, and shooting balls down the feed neck, and you could leave it on all round that might be cool. except, what does this thing do with a full hopper when theres no room to toss balls around. It either stalls, creating heat and im guessing bad for the motor, or breaks balls probably. maybe you could just turn it on after 1/3 of your hopper is gone...or maybe make the fins that knock balls skinny, so they will agitate but not hurt balls. seems like it would be fun at least.

here are some good places to get motors

look there
http://www.mpja.com/

or....

http://www.excess-solutions.com/12vdc_fans3.htm#118MM

hope i helped

[Mossman]

wait a sec! that got me thinking....what about just a regular computer fan motor...... take off the box but leave those prong thingies and secure it down by those. then file down the fan blades maybe, i like using zip ties or something, and run it off a 9v with some kind of a resistor? a few AAs in series? i dont really know, but not as fast as it would normally run at a 9v (they do anywhere from 2000-7000 RPMs, and thats at 12v.

[BEEFYSAUSAGE]

dude now your getting adventurous..just buy a java agi hopper and save your self troubble..

[animal]

A computer fan just wouldn't have the torque to turn with the weight of the balls.

By the time you figure it all out you could've worked to buy your own older VL rev. :)

[z_mann_z]

I have made two out of 45 rd. hoppers for a guys nasty phoon once. I took some small motors and mounted them with sheet metal and a modified 12 volt blade in each one. Battery was mounted between the two, meaning both were connected. Used a trigger activated switch.

[BEEFYSAUSAGE]

45 round agi ...lol....thats goto be a waste of time..
well now it is but years ago it would have been super hi tec
with 40 rnd guppies(loaders).
ah nastalga..i love it
BEEFY.

[z_mann_z]

I will soon get around to making a few as well as some three hundred round hoppers. on my micromag, a forty round hopper would be perfect for when I play front. And I am building a couple of homemade "Proflex" 300 round hoppers for playing rec.

[Mossman]

i made one using a computer fan. works great when theres like 30 balls in hopper, but too high speed, too low torque. gonna order one soon...trying to figure out what I want. Im thinking about 6v (if I can find it, so its like 4 in series AA batteries, and 600-1000 RPM.

guys, got an idea.

you think you could make a zap like loader with a few pager motors that make pagers and cell phones vibrate. there tiny little motors that need around 1.5v (AA, AAA, C, or D battery), and there off center so they vibrate. I would love to run like 4 of em all around if they did a good job vibrating, try to intellifeed it so it gave the hopper a nice shake between every shot :)

[bubba]

ok if you take a servo off of a rc car ill give you one and there a stoper in side to make it go the oppisite way when you turn but all you do is take it out and ywhen you turn the loader on it will run all the time to help currurlate the balles bvetter which will in turn feed balls faster

[personman]

Heh.. I bought the Revy last night people.. :D

[BEEFYSAUSAGE]

Now wasent that easer??

[personman]

Well, one things for sure, it wasnt easier on my wallet!