Laser Trigger(LTD) released...

[bunny5]

With the technology of paintball continuously changing with light weight markers, allowing ramping in tournaments to new fast paced styles of the paintball games this has become the next generation of paintball. Making markers faster and faster with out bounce has become and obsession to all paintball players. What if you could take a maker and have a trigger that takes the marker to its physical limits with no bounce of any kind? Could this be possible? With the development of lasers they have changed our way of life and for us, paintball.




LTD has over the past 9 months developed the Laser Trigger (LT) for the paintball marker. By breaking the beam it replaces the traditional mechanical trigger. There is no spring to bounce off, no trigger movement, and no trigger switch delay. One break of the beam is one shot. With that there is no trigger bounce. It only takes a millimeter of movement to break the beam. That means your fingers only move a fraction of an inch to generate the highest rate of fire.




LTD has also partnered with KnuTec to develop a clean program to work with the LT. NoX will be exclusively used and installed on all LT installed Mods. We have found in our testing the NoX is the cleanest and most reliable program on the market.



With the many styles of paintball markers LTD will release the LT for certain paintball markers. We will start with having the customer send in their existing marker to have the LT installed. Or purchase a LT modified marker directly from LTD or and LTD authorized dealer.

The idea has been around for along time, finally someone stepped up to try it.


Do you think this is good or bad for the sport?

[AcemanPB]

I swear I've seen this done before. Not an actual product but a project gun, maybe it was from Doc's shop...

As far as if its good for the sport.... with ramping boards and near full auto modes being legal I don't really see how this could make things any worse. I really doubt this product will take off though, unless the PBN kids decide its the new AGG of the month. I think its a cool idea but not very practical, I think it would be tough to play without some type of tactile feedback from a trigger.

[JoshK]

Wow...I wonder if the put the laser alittle more forward...then you would pass through the laser twice if you bounce off the trigger frame like an actual trigger. That could possibly be legal though.

[-=Squid=-]

I don't think it's going to be good or bad, I think it's going to be an unpopular, crappy product.

You need some weight and response to be able to walk high speeds.

[counterstrike53]

what the heck does agg mean?

[magman007]

it wont sell, its 350 for the damn system, and its tourny illegal, nuff said

[JimmyBeam]

what the heck does agg mean?

it means your more worried about the way you dress on the paintball field than the way you play paintball. i cant stand it.....



anyways, about the trigger. i think it would work well, but im so used to having my finger resting on the trigger, it mind seem too weird

[CJ55]

Has anyone seen the video? I did and either the trigger is slow or the guy testing it is slow.

[Army]

Every tourney venue calls for a physical trigger.

If I were a field owner, I wouldn't want any marker that could be fired by a bug flying through the trigger guard.

I predict, it is already a failure.

[dahoeb]

i think thats dangerous. if all you have to do is break a laser beam, that means that just about anything can set it off.

triggers are so light and sensitive nowadays anyways, but when you have an actual trigger there, you have something to guide your fingers. with breaking a laser beam, you never know when your finger is slipping to far or something and will trigger it to fire. also, what if a little bit of dirt or paint get in there and blocks the beam in mid game?

triggers today are so sensitive i don't think that this is really necessary. we may as well just keep the tried and true method of firing until a method just as safe and reliable comes along. maybe if they adjusted where the breakbeam is or something, like a vertical beam instead of horizontal (it looks horizontal at least...).

all this talk of lasers is getting me thinking of austin power and sharks with lasers on their head. hahaha haha ha....(cricket cricket)

[cuttydiamond]

Or what if there was a physical trigger that tripped some kind of optical sensor. That way its tourny legal, but theres no bounce.

[Automaggot68]

Or what if there was a physical trigger that tripped some kind of optical sensor. That way its tourny legal, but theres no bounce.

I thought the E1/2 Already did that?

[dahoeb]

that sounds like a really good idea if nobodies done that yet....hmm

[shartley]

I predict, it is already a failure.

Agreed.

[warbeak2099]

What happens when some peice of shell/debrie flies through the trigger gaurd while playing. Players lay a lot of paint down today and it's not uncommon to have hails of paint and shell fly off of the side of a bunker. That would be ridiculous. You have no control over the trigger system. Impractical. I think touchpad triggers are a better idea.

The movies are cool and all, but what happens when you get out on the field? I think at that point you lose control over the gun's firing. Once you add in flying debrie and all that junk you've got a problem. And that's just indoors. At an outdoor field it'd be even more of a loss of control. The price isn't a problem though. It's $325 for the laser triggering system and the NoX board, which seems like not that bad a board.

However, I would like to see a vid of someone playing with one and some more information out of LTD on the matter of flying debries/bugs/etc. If they do indeed prove that the system they've created is not affected by these things, then I think it might be a neat upgrade. But I could never handle having a gun that I don't have control over.