One battery world...

[Evil Bob]

For those who remember, I hinted at having made a working one battery setup for the HALO and Warp feed several months ago. After testing and refining it over the past three months, I'm finally posting pictures on what it looks like.

The HALO A had a voracious appetite for raw amperage, requiring a solid 900ma + to feed reliably at 16bps and the one battery world was beyond reach unless you wanted to venture into an external battery with a much higher current potential. Enter in the HALO B, which cut the amperage appetite down to a healthy 500ma, easily something the Emag battery could sustain. The Odyssey refined the HALO even further with the HALO TE which further reduced the amperage requirements, which translates into more shots per battery charge. With the HALO B I would get between 5,000 and 6,000 shots off of a single charge. I've only had my HALO TE upgrade for a week now and haven't gotten around to running the full crash test on it, but it will easily increase the shot total due to the lower torque the new software introduces.

Welcome to my One Battery World...

[Evil Bob]

Next...

[Evil Bob]

Now for the internals...

[Evil Bob]

Last pic...

[Evil Bob]

Now I know I'm not the first to do the single battery mod, RobAGD deserves the credit for that, it was his mod that got me thinking about how to do a module based system that would not require the marker or equipment to be permanently modified.

The beauty of this is you can run solo with the HALO or mount it on your Warp and power both. Also, there is ZERO modification done to either the Warp or the HALO, the entire mod is stored in the battery cover of the HALO, meaning that you can easily remove it with the single screw and go back to using heavy batteries again if you so choose.

-Evil Bob

[sniper1rfa]

is your warp intellifed?

[Halliday]

It looks great, but I don't get the "one battery world." Where's the one battery? Plugs into the "9v to HALO?" Runs off the E-Mag battery?

Still cool thou.......

[shartley]

Very nice. Clean work too.

[Evil Bob]

Everything is powered off of the Emag battery, I'm stuck at work right now (where the company owned digital camera is at) and I was unable to bring my marker in to take picts of the full setup (the office people freak out when I bring my marker in and wave it around)

The Warp is intelifed by the Emag, everything works happily together and I save quite a bit of weight by losing the 6 AA's and the pair of 9v's, not to mention the savings in not having to buy those anymore.

-Evil Bob

[Hexis]

Well, I guess the delay getting my Upgraded Halo B is handy in some ways. I was able to add a second battery cover on the order so I have something to play with.

Not being mych for electronics design myself, can you do me a favor and post a simple schematic for a Emag -> Halo only board? So I could run the Halo off the Emag Battery, but with no warp?

Also how did you feed the cable from the EMag battery?

[ChucktheMAGician]

Great work! How many times did you get burned soldering things that close together?! Why did you put a switch in, couldn't you just use the pin in the emag?

[cledford]

If I were you, I'd get a bunch of battery covers from the HALO guys and start selling those puppies!!!

I'd give you $25.

Heck, get them made in china and you'll make a mint.

Great Job!

-Calvin

[Evil Bob]

Hexis: http://www.robagd.com/revy-hack/ RobAGD has all the info you need on how to make the mod. The HALO requires NO MORE then 9v, you go any higher and you'll fry the board, so you'll need to find yourself a 9v regulator, which can be obtained over at www.mouser.com, they've got everything you'd ever want to use. I don't have the part number handy and I'm too blind to read it off of the reg itself, I'll post the part number I used when I get home and can read it off of the invoice.

Chuck: I don't carry the yellow pin with me the whole day I play, it usually spends the day in with the tools locked in the car. So I use the switch to conserve battery power while I'm sitting in the dead box, since I haven't yet got around to modding my warp with a switch, it's never really been an issue just leaving the Emag on since the battery is pretty burly to begin with.

Long fine needle nose pliers, my fingers are too fat to get in for the tight work and I'm a big wuss when it comes to pain

-Evil Bob

[cledford]

Can you post pics of the 18v in from the Emag?

How about a wiring diagram

-Calvin

[cledford]

Do you cut your HALO for running on the warp? I wouldn't think it would fit very tight if you didn't - but I think the hose would run through the battery compartment - so would it interfer with your mod?

-Calvin