Electro Powered paintball gun?

[FutureMagOwner]

would it be possible to have a paintball gun that runs completly electro no gasses? i think it would be possible using a concept similar to an airsoft gun.

i know its possible for everything is possible, even godzilla but how would that work?

maybe that could be toms level 11!

[Coaster]

so you mean an electric motor that compresses the gas for the gun? If that is what you mean.. that would be reallllllly cool

[FreshmanBob]

i think he means like an electronic paint flinging device

it'd have to be reeeally heavy with a big battery to do it but you could try

ever see those things they use to pitch baseballs for little league games? They're like a spinning wheel that you drop the ball onto an it flings it out. Maybe you could make one of those, but paintball sized

[rjvemt1]

have the bolt move back and forth along a magnetic rail,like the trains in japan and europe.i think the power source would be really heavy though.

[nicad]

..once made a centrifical paintball slinger.. velocity was poor and accuracy was difficult, but both would be possible. lack of time has damppered furthering project. If i remember correctly (its been a few years) calculated rate of fire capacity at 300bps (yes three hundred). good luck feeding it! hehe

out!

[Vegeta]

I am not sure if it was here in deep blue or over at the Tinkers guild but someone calculated how fast two certain sized wheels would have to spin to shoot a ball down a barrel at 300 fps. It was unfasible for it would requair a very high powered motor and battery. The number was somewhere around 72,000 rpm for one rotor. I don't think we will get away from gas powered markers anytime soon.

[FutureMagOwner]

i was thinking something along the lines of a current gun. except instead of the parts being moved by gas and blow back and such instead electricity of course to get that to work you would need to have a bolt that goews really fast(to get it to go that fast would need a derlin bolt and breech alnog with a heck of alot of energy) of course the way you guys suggest is a better possibility.


the baseball type thing could work if somehow you could get it to go around 300 fps no matter what rate of fire and have it go straight(not like a grenade launcher by lobbing it) and accurate of course

[xatle]

an alcohol turbine engine powered compressor would work, but air gets hot when you compress it and without time for it to cool down before fireing i think it might start to melt shells in the barrel at high rates of fire. also the high pitched whine of the thing would drive you mad by the end of the game.
just my thoughts

[Telefragged]

Everyone just wants to build a better mousetrap so to speak, eh? I had a really cool idea for an electromagnetic 'rail' based paintball gun before. instead of a bolt, you have a 'cup', a cradle more or less for the paintball. This cradle, when activated, is propelled down a rail towards the target(very quickly!), once near the end of this rail, it stops abrubtly, and slings the paintball towards the target.

Many, many, many problems though, large, bulky, HEAVY, inneficient, poor velocity, and very poor accuracy if not properly controlled. Physics says that inertia should help out a bit though.

[edit] Or, we could add trace amounts of magnetic materials into paintball fills and use an electromagnetic rail to throw the now magnetic 'paintball' would probably make paintballs much more expensive though...hmm..."nyeodmium (who knows how to spell it?!) added for improved flight characteristics!", a whoole new marketing scheme

[Redkey]

[nicad]

..instead of wheels, use tracks, like conveyer(spl?) belts, on each side..
hehe good luck getting them up to 300fps surface speed..

[Nomad]

I don't think any type of electrically propelled type of marker would be practical at this day in age. Probably not until we're all in wheelchairs, so meh.

What I would suggest is that they make improvements to the propellent that we're currently using. Use a different type of gas (I don't think there is much else that works better then nitrogen)

Note:
I just got a dumb thought. What is we put something like charged neon into a tank and used that as propellent? Stupid yes, impratical and quite possibly dangerous, but wouldn't it be really neat if we could put a glowing gas of some type into a tank and fire that? It would be just perfect for night time play. You'd get muzzle flash of various colors.

Yes. I am insane.

[El Pipi Fantasma]

[Vegeta]

To get the outer edge of a 1 inch diameter wheel to travel at 300 fps the wheel would have to be spinning at about 68,755 rpm.

..i was damn close.

They suggested- instead of adding size to the wheel (like you said, doubling it), instead, making the gun have two paralell wheels or three. And you also have to think about barrel friction. How fast wil the ball slow down in the barrel? How many more RPMs wilt he wheels need to be going to overcome that?


It is widely impractical for the wieght, battery, and large motors that would have to be involved.

[xatle]

makeing a gun with high velocity spinning weels in it would be kinda neet, the wheels would resist lateral movement and twisting, hook em up in pairs, one on either side of the ball, and have the second set be at 90 degrees to the first so that the gun resists movement horizontaly and vertically, possibly reduceing the muzzle rise of each shot making it easier to hold steady when fireing at speed.

shrug, just a thought