Warpless z2

[Justus]

I have had my cousin working on one for awhile now too (engineering student with access to all kinds of toys). I sent him instructions to modify the design a bit a few days back. Should see something back from him soon.

Basically, my concept was if a warpfeed bracket and the bulky part of a Kapp drop had a baby, and it clamped to a hopper instead of a bottle regulator. That's because I had been using, literally, part of an old PTP warpfeed mount bolted to a Kapp drop turned sideways.

[Syko89]

Update: first day of actual play brought up some issues. Feeding had moments of being in consist towards the middle of the day. Changed the battery and got better. What's the problem you ask? The lithium ion batteries where installed that morning. I noticed that the auto anti jam is activating a lot causing interrupted feeding and killing the battery. Looking for a fix will keep you all posted on the progress. Just being up front before someone else cuts up a good loader

[Flurry]

Update: first day of actual play brought up some issues. Feeding had moments of being in consist towards the middle of the day. Changed the battery and got better. What's the problem you ask? The lithium ion batteries where installed that morning. I noticed that the auto anti jam is activating a lot causing interrupted feeding and killing the battery. Looking for a fix will keep you all posted on the progress. Just being up front before someone else cuts up a good loader

When I did mine I used the Halo Too and a Halo B2 because you can turn off the tension sensor to keep it from stopping intermittently if the stack pressure gets too high. I've used mine playing 2 day events and not changing the batteries but I use the 2 nine volt in parallel setup. See if the Z2 has a setting to turn off the tension sensor or antijam feature.

[Justus]

Here's the info you need:

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?t=3801842

Look at what Simon says about the red light - motor sensing - on/off.

[Syko89]

Yeah I did that and it didn't seem to have any affect. Function wise I had Better luck with the Halo too but want the disassembly and lower profile of the z2. Might take z2 board out and mount a halo 2 board in the back she'll piece

[Syko89]

But just FYI. If you are using a halo the scion z2 style wheel fits in the Halo raceway with a little trimming of the cups

[zondo]

First, let's get this out of the way before GH posts it....



Now to my question. Can the parts from the Empire Defender's loader and plumbing be used? Also, is the motor or cup different from the Z2? I only did a quick search, but couldn't really compare them.

I love that they went with an integrated loader, but it looks like the shoulder to grip length is longer than I would like and I don't think there is any way to adjust it.

[Syko89]

I thought about this but I got shoot down with just about every place I tried to get the internals of the loader. The defenders loaders board is also integrated with the markers board.