Issues with powering warp and revy with emag battery

[FutureMagOwner]

Alright guys, I'm having some issues with trying to power my warp and revy off of my emag (as the title suggests). I've got the positive wire running from the positive lead where you plug the battery in and the negative wire running from the screw that the board grounds to the frame. I soldered those leads in to a 3.5mm headphone receiver. The headphone jack is then connected to the 12 volt regulator as the diagram shows below.

My board still lights up, gun still shoots, and my warp spins, but the regulator got quite hot and the warp wouldn't stop spinning, so something is wrong but I am wondering if I am using the wrong terminals on the regulator or if I need to redo my wiring because there is a short in one of the leads. I haven't hooked up the revy to this system yet but I know all I have to do is put that in parallel with the warp connections.

I've seen pictures of 12v harnesses for warps that seem to have the leads from the warp reversed from what I have but that doesn't make sense to me so if someone could clarify that'd be great.

[Ando]

How hot is the regulator getting. It'll get warm to the touch but if your smelling something burnt then you just fried your regulator.

There's an sensitivity screw on the back side of the warp. Take the black cover off and you'll see it. It's circular in shape and has an arrow on it. Just turn it till it stops spinning. The extra power your sending to your motor is causing feedback which is tripping the sensor on the warp. You need to bring the sensitivity down a bit.

There's also jumpers you might want to look at underneath the black panel. The ones to the left adj how long the warp spins when it's activated. The other set to the right allows you to change your warp between sensor and cable.

I've seen pictures of 12v harnesses for warps that seem to have the leads from the warp reversed from what I have but that doesn't make sense to me so if someone could clarify that'd be great.

Reversing the wires only applies to a typical 9v harness setup. As long as you know which wire is + / - when it's coming out of the regulator, you shouldn't have an issue. It's reversed cause the red wire (usually +) on a 9 volt harness is actually hooked up the the negative post (bigger of the 2 connectors) and the black wire (usually -) is connected to the positive post (smaller of the 2 connectors). When you connect your battery. The positive side of the battery will be connecting to the neg connector of the harness which has the red wire (+) hooked up to it and same thing with the neg side. That being said, the color coding of the wires will be correct. Open up a 9v harness and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Hopefully that made sense to you.

EDIT: Look here. This is basically what your doing.

http://bigevilonline.com/showthread.php?t=1971

[FutureMagOwner]

Yeah, I was thinking about it more and I figured that was why that didn't make sense to me is because the leads get flipped back and forth on the 9 volt harnesses which I am not using on this guy. But yeah, the regulator was extremely hot in a short amount of time, practically could fry an egg on it! I broke a pin off the regulator anyway, so I am going to have to pick up a new one when I get a chance, but I'm still going to have a problem with it burning out so I'll have to figure out what is wrong with my logic on this before I try it again.

You are definitely right about the sensitivity, I had my warp set with the bigcell mod before I picked up the emag, and it really wasn't picking up squat, so I had it turned all the way up, so I'll have to back that down.

[Ando]

If the warp was continuously running, it's going to get hot. It running at a normal pace, the regulator should just be warm to the touch. If it's getting hot just sitting there then you have something wired wrong and possibly that' not the only thing getting hot. Might want to watch out for your battery