I wanted to post this somewhere that I would not get instantly burned to death about having a less than fanboi opinion on this marker.
I recently purchased a used Ego7. It is a beautiful marker. Super light, good mill work, feels nice in my hand. It came with pretty much all the upgrade that it needs already having the zick kit and bump pistons. I actually had to look those up to see what they were...lol
The marker is easy to take apart and clean. Everything is laid out simply, much like any other stacked tube marker. Truly much along the lines of a marker that IMO it emulates in the timmy series. NO I am NOT saying this is a timmy, but it is much like it.
The user manual that came with is nice, well laid out and very thorough in its explaination of assembly, maintainance, etc.
Now let me got down to brass tacks. This marker would have cost me something in the neighborhood of 1200 bucks last year. The 8 version which is barely different is actually fetching a touch more than that this year. I paid half that, one year later, for a pretty much "fully upgraded" one. We can see already some point of issue here. If this marker is so damn nice, how come they are not holding any kind of value?
Not that many things are nowdays, mind you. About the only few things that I am actually familiar with that do are Mags and Vikes...anywho.
I got it home and the first thing I did was to diassemble, clean, re ring, and lube/oil in the appropriate places. It was apparent that the previous owner had taken very good care of this marker. It was not nasty and nothing was out of place or malfunctioning.
The first thing I noticed upon using it is that it has TERRIBLE consistancy issues. I went in search of answers and find that this is not an uncommon issue at all with this marker. There are threads all over the most common site (which I will leave unmentioned) about this and how to fix it.
Apparently this company, Bump, thought to make some improvements on the consistancy and efficency of the marker and designed these high priced "upgrade" pistons. As I can only compare this to a stock 7 that a buddy has...well I will wait a moment to get into that.
So in addition to these upgraded parts of apparently little actual affect on anything. I have this zick kit ram. Now the idea behind this is that it has a little cushion of air behind it and helps the marker not kick so bad. I have the stock rammer, but have yet to put it in....here is where the comparison to my buddies stock Ego7 comes in.
His marker has no discernable amount more kick than mine. He is using all stock parts. This $50 upgraded ram seems to be nothing more than a bragging point IMO. I actually had to set my dwell several ms higher than he was able to tune his to. As a result of the zick kit or the pistons I am unsure, but the result is that he is gaining efficency of a much higher order.
His consistancy is considerably greater...but there again, my mini has better consistancy than this Ego. I am experiancing velicity changes + and - 30 FPS. I have been through the regs, made recommended adjustments, new batteries, even had a local "expert" check everything out. I am now down to the apparent "go to" answer of, since I replaced all the orings perhaps it needs to break in again. A period of time that varies up to an incredible 10K cycles.......????
As far as that part goes I actually did get the stock pistons and rammer with the marker and am going to put those parts in as an experiment and see what changes if anything. However I cannot right now due to the newest and at this point most costly problem. I cannot change anything in programming because the LCD screen went out right after I got it.
Yes that's right. It was working fine. Played one game with it, didn't take any kind of hit to the grip frame, drop, or rough treatment. I brought it home, working fine. Layed it on a table I use for storing all my markers, in the house in climate control. Pick it up the next time to fiddle around in the back yard and guess what? No display. Of course it will power on and operate, but I have no idea what any settings are should I wish to change them. Luckily I had already spent a couple of afternoons, a case of paint, couple of tanks of air, and a battery in the chrono making adjustments to it to be both legal and as consistant as possible. Good thing too.....
So now I have no faith whatsoever in the stock board. I have owned Eclipse LCD boards before. Had this problem to a varying degree with some Zero B boards a while back, but would have thought they addressed this issue.
Instead of spending $50 to swap out and having to worry about it happening again, I went absolutely bat (crap) crazy and spent almost $170 on that new Tadao board with the OLED. Yes, here I have this over priced, value loosing, inconsistant beauty of a marker...and now I am throwing an almost 200 dollar designer board in it...I guess so I can be more agg?!?
Well I must say. The jury is still out on this. WAY out. I dunno if I did myself a service, or if I have jumped off in the middle of hyped out money pit, marker style. When I get the new board and am actually able to adjust my settings I am going to check and see whether the $100+ in "upgrades" actually just made it worse.
I will get back to you all about it. Until then...I love to shoot the thing, I love the feel, the weight, the profile. But at this point I kinda feel like a guy with a high maintainence, good looking girlfriend, who is a bad lay and can't cook.
EDIT**** Please read through and then check this thread.
I recently purchased a used Ego7. It is a beautiful marker. Super light, good mill work, feels nice in my hand. It came with pretty much all the upgrade that it needs already having the zick kit and bump pistons. I actually had to look those up to see what they were...lol
The marker is easy to take apart and clean. Everything is laid out simply, much like any other stacked tube marker. Truly much along the lines of a marker that IMO it emulates in the timmy series. NO I am NOT saying this is a timmy, but it is much like it.
The user manual that came with is nice, well laid out and very thorough in its explaination of assembly, maintainance, etc.
Now let me got down to brass tacks. This marker would have cost me something in the neighborhood of 1200 bucks last year. The 8 version which is barely different is actually fetching a touch more than that this year. I paid half that, one year later, for a pretty much "fully upgraded" one. We can see already some point of issue here. If this marker is so damn nice, how come they are not holding any kind of value?
Not that many things are nowdays, mind you. About the only few things that I am actually familiar with that do are Mags and Vikes...anywho.
I got it home and the first thing I did was to diassemble, clean, re ring, and lube/oil in the appropriate places. It was apparent that the previous owner had taken very good care of this marker. It was not nasty and nothing was out of place or malfunctioning.
The first thing I noticed upon using it is that it has TERRIBLE consistancy issues. I went in search of answers and find that this is not an uncommon issue at all with this marker. There are threads all over the most common site (which I will leave unmentioned) about this and how to fix it.
Apparently this company, Bump, thought to make some improvements on the consistancy and efficency of the marker and designed these high priced "upgrade" pistons. As I can only compare this to a stock 7 that a buddy has...well I will wait a moment to get into that.
So in addition to these upgraded parts of apparently little actual affect on anything. I have this zick kit ram. Now the idea behind this is that it has a little cushion of air behind it and helps the marker not kick so bad. I have the stock rammer, but have yet to put it in....here is where the comparison to my buddies stock Ego7 comes in.
His marker has no discernable amount more kick than mine. He is using all stock parts. This $50 upgraded ram seems to be nothing more than a bragging point IMO. I actually had to set my dwell several ms higher than he was able to tune his to. As a result of the zick kit or the pistons I am unsure, but the result is that he is gaining efficency of a much higher order.
His consistancy is considerably greater...but there again, my mini has better consistancy than this Ego. I am experiancing velicity changes + and - 30 FPS. I have been through the regs, made recommended adjustments, new batteries, even had a local "expert" check everything out. I am now down to the apparent "go to" answer of, since I replaced all the orings perhaps it needs to break in again. A period of time that varies up to an incredible 10K cycles.......????
As far as that part goes I actually did get the stock pistons and rammer with the marker and am going to put those parts in as an experiment and see what changes if anything. However I cannot right now due to the newest and at this point most costly problem. I cannot change anything in programming because the LCD screen went out right after I got it.
Yes that's right. It was working fine. Played one game with it, didn't take any kind of hit to the grip frame, drop, or rough treatment. I brought it home, working fine. Layed it on a table I use for storing all my markers, in the house in climate control. Pick it up the next time to fiddle around in the back yard and guess what? No display. Of course it will power on and operate, but I have no idea what any settings are should I wish to change them. Luckily I had already spent a couple of afternoons, a case of paint, couple of tanks of air, and a battery in the chrono making adjustments to it to be both legal and as consistant as possible. Good thing too.....
So now I have no faith whatsoever in the stock board. I have owned Eclipse LCD boards before. Had this problem to a varying degree with some Zero B boards a while back, but would have thought they addressed this issue.
Instead of spending $50 to swap out and having to worry about it happening again, I went absolutely bat (crap) crazy and spent almost $170 on that new Tadao board with the OLED. Yes, here I have this over priced, value loosing, inconsistant beauty of a marker...and now I am throwing an almost 200 dollar designer board in it...I guess so I can be more agg?!?
Well I must say. The jury is still out on this. WAY out. I dunno if I did myself a service, or if I have jumped off in the middle of hyped out money pit, marker style. When I get the new board and am actually able to adjust my settings I am going to check and see whether the $100+ in "upgrades" actually just made it worse.
I will get back to you all about it. Until then...I love to shoot the thing, I love the feel, the weight, the profile. But at this point I kinda feel like a guy with a high maintainence, good looking girlfriend, who is a bad lay and can't cook.
EDIT**** Please read through and then check this thread.
But I'm happy Eclipse was able to find success, they always made quality stuff, and deserved it. 
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