Well I have another stupid idea...boy am I chalked full of them. The idea is to have a weigher, or a miniscale where the ball drops in. when the ball puts it's weight on the scale it will let the bolt fire. It is pretty much an alternitive for the eye that can sense any kind of paint.
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Pretty much exactly what Sensi is, and it's kind of been proven to be inferior to eyesFeedback: http://www.automags.org/forums/showt...hreadid=105565
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Sensi uses a vibration sensor and that is why it must be calibrated.
The ball hitting the sensi/cops rod produces a certain signal, when you calibrate it, the gun sees that as being a ball. The sensor also pics up the gun firing, you running, etc. The calibration causes the gun to filter out this other "noise".
You are correct, this is how sensi works, the ball hits the rod and transfers energy to a sensor that reports to the board.
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Actually I have though about a very lightweight momentary microswitch at the bottom of the chamber for this very idea. The ball depresses the switch which allows the marker to fire. The initial problem with this idea is dirt or water in the switch. Under controlled conditions, this would probably work fine, but under real life conditions I see it as too prone to failure.
IMO, the eye idea is the most reliable, other than perhaps a magnet moved by the ball which actuates a hall effect sensor. This would have to be mounted in an extremely stable fashion to keep it from moving too far to be reliable."Did everything just taste purple for a second?" - Phillip J. Fry
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Buy a Lvl 10... Tune it... forget about it.
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yea i think sensi is whats used in the angel speeds, and its proved to have problems; especialls with halo's because they put a lot of pressure on the ballstack (hehe that sounds like ballsack :) )Current Setup:
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Could you maybe take 2 tiny strips of metal and place it in the side similar to a ball detent. And when a ball drops down, it would push those two strips together to complete the circuit and allow the marker to shoot.play for the game
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that a kinda good idea, i dont know how it would be done though. Get it patented before SP reads this!Current Setup:
Led pushbutton trix
red bolt kit, sidewinder, trinity
Blue Halo B
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Or why not use a pressure sensor located at the bottom of the breech, so that only when a ball is sitting on top of it will there be force ON the sensor, and only when the sensor registers contact is the gun allowed to fire.POG Member #919
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I would place a pressure sensor in the side so that that would be consistent(sp?) pressure from shot to shot and angle would not be as much of a factor in whether or not the pressure would be relived from the switch.
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OR you could just use a simple breakbeam eye...... Comment
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Hey, no quashing attempts at originality.Originally posted by Fixion
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Why not try a sonar or radar sensor? I know there are some very small radar sensors (relatively, but still large for a paintball marker) that are used in car security. Sonar sensors are used as backup alerts in cars to let you know how close you are to a car behind you when parking. It seems that these would be less affected by a dirty breech since they don't rely on optics to work.Comment
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one problem that i see with the switch and double plates, that a ball pushes against,
I forsee bad things happening when you dry fire and there no ball to push teh levers, bars out of the bolts wayGuns
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hi there..
just my two penneth worth....
if the switch was mounted in the ball detent thingy, then there would always be a "constant" pressure on it (enough to trip a very sloppy microswitch or similar, allowing the marker to fire. And the problem with dry firing? wouldn't an eye (if it is turned on) stop a marker from dry firing if there was no ball in the breach? so you would just simply turn the micro-switch sensor off (or directly short the switch so it is always on.
Failing that, rather than using piddly little IR beams, use a laser and a lightpipe!
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