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PMd ya

[CoolHand]

PMd ya

Replied.

Sorry it took me so long, I read it when it first arrived, but forgot to send you a reply.

It's packed up and should be going out in a day or two.


For everyone else, still no word from YDNA.

At this point, there is no telling what is actually going on. Whatever it turns out to be, I'll post it up, and I will not be astonished in the least, even if it turns out he was abducted by aliens.

[CoolHand]

Finally heard back from YDNA:

Sorry man, I think I lost track of time. I have the parts right here in front of me but I don't have my documentation with me right now...I will take the box home with me and finish working on it there.
Junk has just piled up on me pretty bad these past couple weeks, I had to take some time off, pretty much not accepting any new work right now until I get your project finished and out the door.
Drop me another e-mail in a few days to remind me in case I forget again...

At least he's honest about it.

[CoolHand]

Got another update from YDNA this afternoon.

I dunno man, I've hit a bad roadblock with these things. I've come up
with two separate circuits that I put together to test using the
components I selected, but neither of them are getting any clicks from
the solenoids. The adapter runs just about all the other solenoids I've
tested out but these 12v ones still aren't giving me anything..

I'm confused about this because these solenoids probably *shouldn't*
work with a regular 9 volt batt, but they do indeed work just fine with
a morlock board. And the components I sourced are even beefier than the
ones on morlocks. I've tried contacting Curt to see if he has any
insight but no response thus far. I don't know what's different between
these setups but there's some little keystone factor that I seem to be
missing.

I have on order a couple of the transistors and diodes that the morlock
uses, which I want to experiment with and see if I can get these
solenoids to respond with them. If they work then we're still
good...assembling the adapter boards will be a little more
time-consuming for those smaller components, but still doable. I just
hope they work in the first place, cause if not then we'll be in trouble.

I don't suppose it would be even remotely possible to source a smaller
coil from numatics for exchange? I'm thinking of the worst case
situation and how to get these working in that event. But I don't know
if they even make any 5-7 volt solenoids at all, let alone in this series..

Nothing is ever as easy as it should be. . . . . . .

I'm already looking for new solenoids to fit the existing manifolds.

Sorry the news ain't better.

[manwe33]

Just Checking in and see if anything new has happened!

[CoolHand]

Just Checking in and see if anything new has happened!

YDNA is at a dead end with the Chaos boards.

I have found a new solenoid with a smaller coil which the board is supposed to be able to shift.

I'll be sending it to him in the next day or two, and we'll see where it goes from there.

When I know more, I'll post it here ASAP.

I'm sorry this has dragged on for so long, but at this point, did you really expect it to go otherwise?

When it comes to this project, I've come to expect the worst, and plan for the inconceivable, 'cause it seems not matter how bad I expect the news to be, it's worse.

I may get ahead of it yet though, hang in there.

[CoolHand]

Well, YDNA has had some success with the new solenoids, but he's still not done yet.

Now I only need to find ~$875 to buy new solenoids with.

I also have eye covers here that were done by a machinist that works with Paintball4Me.

They look good, but I haven't measured them yet (no reason to suspect they're wrong, I just want to be sure, given my luck on this project thus far).

I will be including a set of them with every marker and frame kit. Raw, but I don't dare risk sending them to ano, for fear that they either won't return, or they'll take a year to be finished.

When I get some pics of them taken, I'll post them here.

Until then, that's all I've got. Hope that's enough.

Have a good 4th of July everyone.

[manwe33]

Well, YDNA has had some success with the new solenoids, but he's still not done yet.

Now I only need to find ~$875 to buy new solenoids with.

I also have eye covers here that were done by a machinist that works with Paintball4Me.

They look good, but I haven't measured them yet (no reason to suspect they're wrong, I just want to be sure, given my luck on this project thus far).

I will be including a set of them with every marker and frame kit. Raw, but I don't dare risk sending them to ano, for fear that they either won't return, or they'll take a year to be finished.

When I get some pics of them taken, I'll post them here.

Until then, that's all I've got. Hope that's enough.

Have a good 4th of July everyone.

Great news. So your back on doing the eye covers. I like the sound of that

[VeeWee]

Great news. So your back on doing the eye covers. I like the sound of that

Any news on the Super ULE rails?

[going_home]

Word

Just Checking in and see if anything new has happened!

[CoolHand]

If I had anything to tell you, I'd post it up, but I haven't heard back from YDNA.

I poked him a couple of days ago, but I haven't heard back yet.

Sorry, no dice.

When I hear back from him, you all will be the first to know.

[Tym]

Ouch, that's a heavy price.. To bad they still aren't ready.. I'll wait for you to sell a bunch and for the price to come down

Also the trigger runs on a bit after you stop, that's an issue I would like to see addressed before I'd get one.. 'Sorry I shot you 12 times man, my marker doesn't stop shooting till it wants to.. I have no control" hehe..

[CoolHand]

Ouch, that's a heavy price.. To bad they still aren't ready.. I'll wait for you to sell a bunch and for the price to come down

Also the trigger runs on a bit after you stop, that's an issue I would like to see addressed before I'd get one.. 'Sorry I shot you 12 times man, my marker doesn't stop shooting till it wants to.. I have no control" hehe..

Seriously?

You post to bag on a project that's going as ****tily as this one is, posing as a potential customer?

Go away.

To the guys stuck in this thing with me - I have been unable to raise YDNA for a month or better now. I do not know what is going on. Hopefully he is just busy. If he hoses me too, I'm not sure where we'll go from there.

If/When I hear from him, I will post it here.

[p8ntbal4me]

Also the trigger runs on a bit after you stop, that's an issue I would like to see addressed before I'd get one.. 'Sorry I shot you 12 times man, my marker doesn't stop shooting till it wants to.. I have no control" hehe..

Thats nothing to do with the trigger,.... its the code that TAG was famous for.

IE: adding shots you didnt actually pull the trigger for.

Ryan said it was in PSP ramp,... and he said it was in "hard ramp".

That means in TAG code ----> 15BPS from the minimum trigger pulls (3),.. then 15bps from then there out (which is what he was pulling),... then adding shots (bank 14 in the code),.... then an ultra low debounce setting (anything less than 5 adds 5 shots on TAG code)


Taken right from the manual,........ minus the "this is cheater code" part

~ P8nt

[txaggie08]

Coolhand, it looks like you've had all the luck of a two legged, one eyed dog named Joab wiht this project.

And before anyone says it or anyone gets titchy, that wasn't a knock on coolhand. Something tells me if I was going to trash him, he wouldn't have been the first and only machinist I discussed custom milling my evil-m with at length. I don't have a place inline, though I wish I could afford to buy one and have one of his frames. He and I have had words in the past, but I like the guy from my dealings with him, I like his products, and was just offering some levity in the thread.