Rogerborg

We had a good rant about that recently: it's an awful way of limiting motor / gear speed. If you're getting problems it's better to drop to 7.4V (or 9.9V LiFe) than to use an 11.1V that's trying to spin the motor fast, but can't keep up with the draw. That's only going to end badly for the battery. tl;dr version - higher C is (nearly) always better.

"Marshal, can you move aside... no, keep going... more... more..."

But that's not sustainable either. I don't actually begrudge UK retailers having to add their costs on - especially to cover eating the cost of returns, and especially-especially given the impracticality and costs to owners of sending anything to and from Abroadland these days for warranty work. However, given the propensity for retailers to give it "Ooh, our forensics lab found traces of market stall BBs, warranty void", I'd rather save every penny up front and sort issues myself. Other opinions are valid though.

I'll report back, but it'll be a while, I have some IRL stuff queuing up that I'll need to prioritise. Hmm, I do have a Big Dragon M160 that's currently looking for a home, so I'll try the mosfet in one AEG and the higher torque motor in the other. Thanks.

Dunno, there are some rules here to stop new(ish) accounts from accessing some features in order to try and cut down the amount of scammer-spam that people get, but I'd have thought you'd posted enough by now. Have some karma, maybe that will help.

Ace, thanks. Yes, that makes sense. Sadly, if UK retailers are now basically just importing and reselling guns from TG or GF, then they're always going to run more expensive after they've added their own running costs on.

Pimp? Technically that's from a gallery of "pimped bicycles", but...

Hmm, interesting option. However, I'm in the 11.1V foxhole now, and I like the size of the ones I've just bought. I'd love to try something more than 7.4V in my MP5K with its small battery tube, but LiFe seem to run bulkier than LiPo. I'll keep that in mind though. Sold. Or rather, bought. Thanks, I've been tempted to treat myself to a trick mosfet for a while, I guess sunk costs was the way to go.

Mmm, Perun AB++ does look like a viable default choice, if only because they're actually available.

I've long stuck to 7.4V but having just tried 11.1V in my AEGs, well, I now embrace wanker-gunnery and would like to accept it as my personal Lord and Winr8 Saviour, m8. My problem is that I'm getting consistent overspin and double firing on semi in two AEGs, one V2 / M90 spring / Tornado motor, one V3 / M100-105 / Big Dragon M140, both front-wired. To be clear, one trigger pull, two separate shots. Not double feeding: shot, then shot. Neither gun currently has a mosfet. I have their energies dialled in where I want them, so would ideally prefer not to change springs and then lop off teeth, but I am tentatively open to the idea. Is an active-braking mosfet the way to go here? If yes, is that from experience, or from belief (I already believe it, but I've got no evidence for that). If so, do we have any particular recommendations, particularly in the context of the current parlous stocking levels?

What I've seen confirms the above: I measure these at 102mm x 20mm x 15.5mm (without squishing too hard). No idea of how well they'll hold the charge, but they certainly deliver the volts and amps, to the point where my AEGs with M90 / Tornado motor and M105-ish / Big Dragon M140 are bordering on wanker-guns in auto, and are pretty consistently double-shooting on semi.

When BBs do shoot, how's the hop on them? I'm wondering if they're just not making it past the hop rubber - and I have read the thread, and am looking at the barrel as the culprit. If it's a feeding problem, I've had some luck with hand-drilling a very slight detent into the top of the hop chamber. 6mm drill bit straight up the feed tube, a couple of turns by hand, just enough to create a tiny dome at the top of the chamber for the BBs to seat into. It might be a ritual observance, but it did sort a feed problem on my MP5K with a less than brilliant hop chamber.

That certainly looks like fun for the people involved. Which gets me back to my initial point though: most gimmick game modes seem to leave most players befuddled, bemused or bored, because they won't be actively engaged with them. Rentals and new-to-the-site player in particular are going to have a hard time making use of any information beyond "Go / shoot that way"[*]. This applies even to bog standard find the single VIP / bomb / McGuffin games where a couple of site regulars tend to charge off with spooky preternatural (or tipped-the-wink) knowledge of where to find the $SINGLE_THING, while most players wander around and just shoot whatever's nearest. Contrast with find the drug blocks / $MANY_THINGS where everybody (who wants to) has a good chance of getting invovled. That's not a reason to avoid doing gadgets and gimmicks, you're (probably) still raising the net fun quotient on the site, and we're all there to have a laugh in different ways. It's a niche activity within a niche hobby though, for marketing, sales, and cost amortisation purposes. [*] Rambling unrelated second-hand anecdote, the Depot 1.0 ran a chaaaridy special weekend where they got in some, uh... celebrity airsofters, and 'Big' Phil Campion, (actual) ex-SAS to do some skills training. One of the local Walts was weeing himself in excitement and giving it "Delta Charlie squad double-time to location omega, prepare to execute enfilade from ambuscade" style jibba-jabba, translated as "Please notice my skills, Campion-senpai". After a bit too much of this, Phil stepped in and started organising the team along the lines of "Right, you lads stay here, you lads go over there, let's mess them up", a much more effective strategy.

Let's wait for the realisation to sink in that you're posting that on a forum for adults who dress up in costumes and play with toy guns.

Mmm, quite. Every once in a blue moon I see something from UKAPA, on Facebook, if I'm lucky enough for the algorithm to think that it's something that's relevant. I've usually forgotten that they even exist by then. The one thing I might be interested in reading is articles from industry insiders explaining things like development cycles, stock levels, prices and wholeseller returns policies (i.e. who ends up eating the cost of a return), but that's a nice interest within a niche interest.

Sorry to hear this, I'm a little creaky myself, fortunately not in the knees. You could try fish oil, glucosamine sulphate, aspirin (made mine worse) or move upwards from there. I've even seen recommended. +10 to cycling, I'm writing this while on a stationary exercise bike. You can build the resistance up gradually as you add mighty thews, although sadly nothing is going to replace the cartilage if it's osteoarthritis. Have you been diagnosed?

Thanks for the update, great to hear that you got eventually and it didn't go in Border Farce's woodchipper. Can I ask what you expect? i.e. how much did you get mugged for on the order in total. That's key to deciding if it's worth the wait and gamble. The weird part is that it seems that @BigStew didn't get charged anything ... yet. <dramatic-gopher.gif>

Hmm, thinking about it, position should be reasonable, but orientation would be the problem. GPS sampling rate and accuracy is too slow and low to be useful for determining small motions, let alone orientation, so you'd be adding an inertial measurement unit as well, then you've got the problem of initialisation and calibration. A simple device gets complicated pretty quickly.

"Is the use of drones unfair?" goes the question. Well, yes, but the other way around. If Team Red has got someone doing nothing but spotting Blue Team with a drone and shouting "They're behind the tree! The big tree! On my left. No my drone's left, it's facing towards us..." then advantage Blue.

Yes, that's one way to adduce a section 37 defence. It's almost certainly sufficient, but not necessarily necessary.

Mmm, I may have been... slightly more than usually robust. There's nothing wrong with having ideas, as long as you're aware of the prior art, why it failed, and the very limited size of the target market. It's something that would be fun to lash up as a hobbyist project, even just for local site use. If you want a device, then Pi / Arduino GPS modules are dirt cheap now and you could do initial prototyping using wifi between devices to share their location. 11n claims a maximum of 250m outdoors although reality may have something to say about that. Once you start factoring in screen, input, sounds, battery and a case though... well, phones exist now, and you'll have to write software either way.

We're having a strong week of these.

I'm judging the ill advised pre-announcement of the newest bestest excitingest site, with nothing to back it up. Any engagement is a win, even negative, as you can leverage it into a positive if you have some substance to demonstrate. Wait-and-see promises will convince nobody. It's up to you where you want to invest your energy, of course.

What did you end up going for?

I've never had much luck with the cheap ones and my ham fingers, I prefer desoldering braid. Either one is worth a try.