What PSI do mags run at?

[NJPaint]

Can they use low pressure tanks? (400PSI output)

Do classic valves differ from x/rt in this regard?

[sneakyhacker420]

nope

a low pressure tank on a mag is a no-no


all mags perform well in the range of 600psi up to 950psi


retro/x-valves prefer the 750psi range though for maximum performance and recharge

[Prezents]

Low pressure

Only person that I know that has made a mag work on low pressure is Dennis from Center Flag Products.

[PyRo]

SP had the "Black Box" i think it was called that made them low pressure. Ended up they didn't really do to much and caused lots of problems without solving any.
Your mag will want a minimum input of 650. Unless you have a retro, rt, or x-valve thought don't bother with an ajustable tank as 850 is fine for the mag and anything higher or lower won't make a differance.

[sneakyhacker420]

i'm sorry, i was in a hurry cause my dad was focing me to go to bed


but retros get the best performance between 750 and 900 psi, while classic valves do best between 600 and 850



and all the black blox did was add a larger air resivoir to the valve, but that didnt do much beacuse the automag already uses a pre-measured and pre-regulated amount of air to fire, so a larger re3sivoir of unregulated air did absolutely nothing


the only thing that it was good at was acting as a weak expansin chamber for co2 users

[MarkM]

Originally posted by PyRo
SP had the "Black Box" i think it was called that made them low pressure. Ended up they didn't really do to much and caused lots of problems without solving any.
Your mag will want a minimum input of 650. Unless you have a retro, rt, or x-valve thought don't bother with an ajustable tank as 850 is fine for the mag and anything higher or lower won't make a differance.

The Black box was nothing to do with low pressure, unless you believed the advertisments, that was the "reason" given but the use was totally different

[SlartyBartFast]

Originally posted by MarkM
The Black box was nothing to do with low pressure, unless you believed the advertisments, that was the "reason" given but the use was totally different

Wasn't the use the All Americans cheating by having liquid CO2 dumped into the dump chamber?

[MarkM]

Originally posted by SlartyBartFast


Wasn't the use the All Americans cheating by having liquid CO2 dumped into the dump chamber?

I couldn't possibly comment

[afrankart]

Originally posted by PyRo
850 is fine for the mag and anything higher or lower won't make a differance.

That is not true at all on my X-valve. With the ULT, I tend to see a little bit of boltstick below 800. I usually run it at 950, and it makes the trigger really snappy and I have no bolt stick. With the normal on/off assembly, the difference between 800 and 900 psi can lead to upwards of 10 bps more

[Evil Bob]

John Sosta of AGDE also created a low pressure Mag many years ago. The resulting prototype is a paper weight/conversational piece on his work bench.

-Evil Bob

[TheBigRaguPB4L]

Actually a mag runs at about 350-400 psi. If you gutted the regulator part of the mag valve, you could use that tank. I think all you have to do is rip out the vlave stem and spring. I'm really not to sure though as i've never really tried it. I'm a firm believer of at least double regging everything.

[xen_100]

if you did that how are you going to chrono the gun. the internal reg is adjustable so you can chrono the gun. if you gut it and then replace it with a 400 preset tank, you will have a preset chrono speed. it might 260, 280, 240, 360, who knows. but whatever it is, you wont be able to change it. not a good plan.

[BajaBoy]

Originally posted by afrankart


That is not true at all on my X-valve. With the ULT, I tend to see a little bit of boltstick below 800. I usually run it at 950, and it makes the trigger really snappy and I have no bolt stick. With the normal on/off assembly, the difference between 800 and 900 psi can lead to upwards of 10 bps more

looks like you have some tuning to do, Also the psi has nothing to do with "bps". It has to do with sweet-spotting

[afrankart]

Abd sweetspotting can lead to a LOT more bps than not sweetspotting. That is what I was implying.

[GT]

Originally posted by xen_100
if you did that how are you going to chrono the gun. the internal reg is adjustable so you can chrono the gun. if you gut it and then replace it with a 400 preset tank, you will have a preset chrono speed. it might 260, 280, 240, 360, who knows. but whatever it is, you wont be able to change it. not a good plan.

you dont get it. Your single regg'n a mag. Using the tank as an adj. reg for the whole setup. I thought Nicad built a mag like that.

pm him, not sure though