(if you would like to skip the preamble and get right to the idea scroll down to "#IDEA:")
One of the big reasons I am a Mag guy is that I hate batteries but love high rates of fire. When I got my RT Pro I was thrilled to fire short burst of rapid fire that competed with and often out ran the elctro's of the day. I was not thrilled that they occasionally became short burst of chopping.
Apparently I needed a "agitating" hopper. This meant batteries and I was not pleased. I sucked it up and got myself a revy. The chopping problem was marginalized but not eliminated. So I won myself a Warp. More batteries, new set of problems. The vibration sensor (IMHO) was inadequate. So I got myself an Inteliframe and set up the "intelifeed". I found it "intelinadequate". So rigged a small external button to the thumb side of my grip frame and ran the warp manually.
This worked great but prevented me from using my preferred firing method: "Super Street Fighter 2 Button Jamming".
Finally I got a HALO and LV10 and my chopping issues were a thing of the past. Then I had a Baby and got married and left the HALO in a box for a couple of years. The batteries corroded and rendered the internals inoperable.
When I came back to paintball the electros now thoroughly outpaced my RTP. Through a variety of electronic trickery that IMHO is just good old fashioned cheating (I have no intention of starting a flame war on this subject. My opinion on the matter is rooted in 10 years of experience and I am highly unlikely to change it). The resulting rates of fire were sufficient to change "Speed Ball" (my preferred game) into "Slow Ball" by locking down the field of play. I still had a good deal of success using my all or nothing approach.
Still when the opportunity presented itself to up my ROF with pneumatics I jumped at it. Since then I have been playing with a pRTP being fed by a HALO B.
An old friend of mine shoots an A-5 and I'm a big fan of the cyclone feed. Not so much it's proprietary nature. I'm also a big fan of the Q-Loader. Not so much of the prep time and smallish payload. But I remain in love with the idea of a completely mechanical system that can compete with electro ROF using no batteries at all.
which brings me to,
#IDEA:
Replace the batteries and motor in a HALO,Warp,etc. with one of these:
I'm not any kind of an air smith so I brought the idea here. In my mind this would work one of two ways:
1) On a pneuMag (or equivalent) with a second (or split) air line to power the motor.
or
2) By installing an LPR with it's own air supply into the hopper. You'd then need another air switch. I picture this being at the hopper-side mouth of the feedneck where it would be activated by balls dropping when the marker is fired.
I imaging #1 would be easier to accomplish. #2 however would work with any marker.
On to the questions:
Air Smiths:
a) Can this be done?
b) By you?
c) Will you try if I supply the components?
Everyone Else:
a) Does this sound interesting?
b) Would you buy it?
b2) For how much?
Thanks to everyone for reading and please take the time to respond. And please be constructive,
Patron
One of the big reasons I am a Mag guy is that I hate batteries but love high rates of fire. When I got my RT Pro I was thrilled to fire short burst of rapid fire that competed with and often out ran the elctro's of the day. I was not thrilled that they occasionally became short burst of chopping.
Apparently I needed a "agitating" hopper. This meant batteries and I was not pleased. I sucked it up and got myself a revy. The chopping problem was marginalized but not eliminated. So I won myself a Warp. More batteries, new set of problems. The vibration sensor (IMHO) was inadequate. So I got myself an Inteliframe and set up the "intelifeed". I found it "intelinadequate". So rigged a small external button to the thumb side of my grip frame and ran the warp manually.
This worked great but prevented me from using my preferred firing method: "Super Street Fighter 2 Button Jamming".
Finally I got a HALO and LV10 and my chopping issues were a thing of the past. Then I had a Baby and got married and left the HALO in a box for a couple of years. The batteries corroded and rendered the internals inoperable.
When I came back to paintball the electros now thoroughly outpaced my RTP. Through a variety of electronic trickery that IMHO is just good old fashioned cheating (I have no intention of starting a flame war on this subject. My opinion on the matter is rooted in 10 years of experience and I am highly unlikely to change it). The resulting rates of fire were sufficient to change "Speed Ball" (my preferred game) into "Slow Ball" by locking down the field of play. I still had a good deal of success using my all or nothing approach.
Still when the opportunity presented itself to up my ROF with pneumatics I jumped at it. Since then I have been playing with a pRTP being fed by a HALO B.
An old friend of mine shoots an A-5 and I'm a big fan of the cyclone feed. Not so much it's proprietary nature. I'm also a big fan of the Q-Loader. Not so much of the prep time and smallish payload. But I remain in love with the idea of a completely mechanical system that can compete with electro ROF using no batteries at all.
which brings me to,
#IDEA:
Replace the batteries and motor in a HALO,Warp,etc. with one of these:
I'm not any kind of an air smith so I brought the idea here. In my mind this would work one of two ways:
1) On a pneuMag (or equivalent) with a second (or split) air line to power the motor.
or
2) By installing an LPR with it's own air supply into the hopper. You'd then need another air switch. I picture this being at the hopper-side mouth of the feedneck where it would be activated by balls dropping when the marker is fired.
I imaging #1 would be easier to accomplish. #2 however would work with any marker.
On to the questions:
Air Smiths:
a) Can this be done?
b) By you?
c) Will you try if I supply the components?
Everyone Else:
a) Does this sound interesting?
b) Would you buy it?
b2) For how much?
Thanks to everyone for reading and please take the time to respond. And please be constructive,
Patron
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