Custom Electric Trigger System Interest

[Russ]

maybe I'm just a jaded old fart...

...but the paintball communty is full of guys with great ideas for wonderful products. A whole lot of folks have come up with the "latest & greatest" products, only to have them fall way short of expectations, and even general usefulness. The PB community is chock full of junk parts. I won't even get into the "pre-orders" for products that NEVER get made!

Build your cheap & easy electro-triggers. Get 'em into the hands of some players. Test them. Make 'em work, THEN and only then should you solicit interest in the product.

yep, I'm jaded

[Chrishew09]

maybe I'm just a jaded old fart...

...but the paintball communty is full of guys with great ideas for wonderful products. A whole lot of folks have come up with the "latest & greatest" products, only to have them fall way short of expectations, and even general usefulness. The PB community is chock full of junk parts. I won't even get into the "pre-orders" for products that NEVER get made!

Build your cheap & easy electro-triggers. Get 'em into the hands of some players. Test them. Make 'em work, THEN and only then should you solicit interest in the product.

yep, I'm jaded

Point well taken, but why even go through the initial effort unless there is some sort of market for the product. If i get a bunch of people telling me that its a dumb idea and that they wouldn't buy it then why whould I go through the effort to make it.

I just want some idea before I start, I understand it is a crap shoot with any new product even ones as simple as this.

I will restate myself, I'm not trying to make money with this stuff all I want to do is provide a product that AO and the rest of the PB community they might enjoy.

And let me just say I will not be taking peoples money as some sort of preorder, it is my idea so I will front the up front cost and hopefully get that back if the product takes off.

[Tao]

You should make this grip into a z grip or y grip or hell...ADJUSTABLE!
Of course you would need permission from Tom since he holds a patent for those angles, however I would imagine he might be ok with it (I can't speak for him of course, but he has given many of his inventions to paintball already).

[Chrishew09]

Do you guys have any spacific dimentions in mind, I did the board yesterday but didn't like how it came out so I am doing it over.

[doc_Zox]

Patently Dangerous

I surprised no one has said the "S" word yet

[Chrishew09]

What kind of interface would work for you guys?
Holes, Headers.... any ideas??

[ta2maki]

I surprised no one has said the "S" word yet

He doesn't have to worry about them, there is no way this will be that big.

You should make this grip into a z grip or y grip or hell...ADJUSTABLE!
Of course you would need permission from Tom since he holds a patent for those angles, however I would imagine he might be ok with it (I can't speak for him of course, but he has given many of his inventions to paintball already).

This is supposed to be a universal solenoid control board.

Do you guys have any spacific dimentions in mind, I did the board yesterday but didn't like how it came out so I am doing it over.

What kind of interface would work for you guys?
Holes, Headers.... any ideas??

You should have a narrow board layout, 1/2" width or less, so it can be placed in a gripframe easier. Probably have mounting holes in the corners or ends. As for the interface it should be an inexpensive, easily obtainable connector and each part(switch, noid, power) should be separate.

Not to be a downer, but unless this is primarily going to be a learning exercise for yourself, dont bother. Preliminary interest is going to be much higher than actual interest, ask anyone in the dealer's forum. I for one would not be interested at this time. This board seems to be too simple to work effectively. The way you worded the original post makes it seem like the basic board has no adjustments. One-size-fits-all usually means it fits none, especially when the main drive for it is price. This board of yours should be well under 50-60 dollar range, as Scenario Dreams offers a line of aftermarket boards for different markers in that price range and now have quite a bit of adjustments and modes. One could easily adapt a board to fit their particular need and for me, $60 for a board is in the price range to experiment with for a tinker gun.

[MoeMag]

Wow. been a while Chrishew09. still thinking about that board huh. Well Im getting closer and closer to being able to make my frame. I still have a while to go. LOL!

[Chrishew09]

ta2maki-
I agree with everything you said, and yes I am not looking to make money with this just want to do it for fun. The only adjustments I could put in would be dwell for the solenoid, but that would be a POT, and they cost money I might be easier to supply a couple different SMT resistors that the user could replace as he saw fit.
I was only plaining on making 50 boards, and my price.... well I probobly shouldn't say this but I was thinking in the $25 range.

MoeMag-
Of course, I made a demo board already have my schematics done, bill of material is finished and priced, and need to do my PCB layout and I'm done.


I think I am going to go under the assumption that the people that would buy this have some idea how to solder. To keep cost down I am going to have the interface be 6 simple holes in the board to solder, battery, switch, and solenoid.

[Chrishew09]

Final dimentions 0.82" x 1.70", solder interface, one mounting point.