Fatboy40

Online people have been 50/50 with brushless motors and Falcon controllers, some perfectly fine and others nothing at all. Personally I've tried my best to talk to the manufacturers about many DE related things, I've reached out to "Fujian Qing An Precision Machinery Manufacturing Co. Ltd." and all the other variants of their name via loads of channels, and only a couple of times have they ever replied. Obviously the Falcon is built to a cheap spec / BoM, however there will be firmware present but God knows if later manufactured DE M900's have differences in the versions (for example the DE M904E went out of stock globally for a good four to six months at one point, and if one of the shortage was the Falcon there 's a chance they made a revision to it).

@ak2m4 thanks, and there's no reason for a return, I know it will work fine in my MP5K when I buy a GATE Titan v3 to go with it 😃 Regarding batteries I use 11.1v Titan Li-Io's mostly, but tested this with a Nuprol 11.1v Li-Po.

So, my motor's turned up nice and quickly, and onto a little afternoon light playing with it Hmmm, not sure what to say here, but so far I've not been able to actually use the motor so it's a bit of a mixed bag, but I'm happy that none of this is an issue with the motor itself which with more time I'll try in an alternative RIF. One important thing to say first, as it may benefit others, is the motor does not work with the Double Eagle Falcon controller. It spins for a split second and no more, tested outside of the RIF itself, but with a brushed motor you get a nice spin and then the Falcon giving two beeps as no movement of the sector gear is detected. I fitted a GATE Titan V2 to my son's G&G Firehawk so I may give it a go in there, or crack on and get a GATE Titan v3 fitted into my work in progress CYMA MP5K. Something that may affect more people though is motor plate fitment, in that the metal cover of the board / speed controller is quite high so my motor plate does not fit well (but would with cutting away some plastic from it). I'm not going to disassemble any other RIF's right now to compare motor plates, so YMMV. A few photo's... https://i.imgur.com/2sNwij1.jpg https://i.imgur.com/AgoaF53.jpg https://i.imgur.com/CXOy8QB.jpg https://i.imgur.com/QcgsHhm.jpg

We need "bigclivedotcom" to give us a breakdown on that board 😃 (they've really pack in those surface mount resistors 😬 )

Using 7.4v or 11.1v batteries?

Cool 😃 What are your plans for them / what will you be using them in? (I'm a bit over excited as this will be my first brushless motor in a RIF, I've used them before in RC cars)

So trusty @ak2m4 has released a batch of their pre-production 34k (assuming on 11.1v) brushless motors, thankfully I had the cash available to buy one, and if you're quick there's one left at £73.50. God know what I'm going to do with it but with the money available I'm glad I've got one. I think to start with I'll enable the 20% speed reduction on it and put it in my DMR and see how I get on. Also I've got a work in progress CYMA MP5K, which I'll eventually be using with 7.4v batteries, so it could be a very good option to put in there once it's ready (I need to fit a GATE Titan v3 first). Anyone else here bought one?

Come tomorrow I'll have not played for two months. Every time I'm free on a Sunday with money to burn the weather has been shit with it pissing it down, but of course when I have to be somewhere / have orders from my wife it's dry and sunny! I can't remember the start to 2023 being anywhere near as wet. Am I just a grumpy old man or is anyone else as pissed off?

Most importantly did you buy it brand new from a known retailer, or used /second hand? If new from a retailer then you should not be dissembling it as you'll more than likely have voided your warranty. If used / second hand then did the seller state that it was all working before you bought it as you are covered by some trading laws in the UK even on used sales.

On that subject the XT D pinion is a tight fit on the XT 22 TPA motor, you need to be The Hulk to get it on (or I'm a wimp / should be using a tool to do it (I had to use a c clamp to get the last one on).

Friday 9th and no brushless motors 😭 That money's burning a hole in my pocket.

I can't be the only one visiting your website daily seeing if the brushless motors have become available? It's like the desperation to get Glasto tickets 🤣

Most of our days are spent outside, shooting to very mixed ranges, and my son's and my AEG are upgraded a fair bit so fine hopping heavy ammo and tuned to this weight. So, we get the advantage of a few meters more range (able to hit players further away who can't reach us / they feel the BB hitting them better) and are less affected by wind.

When I was using 0.28g the ASG Cursed line were faultless, so this is up to summer 2023 before I and my son moved to 0.32g across the board for AEG's and pistols. Their price is great, they're easy to get hold off (I'd usually buy three of four bags at a time from Patrol Base along with other consumables), didn't get any in the bag that were damaged or any "dust" in the bottom of the bag. Personally I couldn't find anything better for the price.

I like an easy life, so I'll be the boring one and say that I use Nuprol as it's a good one stop shop and predictable. Green equals around 60% of the year for me in a slightly tweaked AAP-01 and red when temps are around 10 degrees centigrade or less (I've made a personal decision to never use black). Shots are consistent and I know that my mags will remain pretty much gas tight, with shots of Abbey maintenance gas when I won't be using them for a while. I rarely need to disassemble my mags to oil up the o-rings, I've never needed to replace any o-rings, and as a side-arm I've not noticed the slight amount of silicon affect grouping / range on 0.32g.

Won't be playing until mid-Feb, however just playing around with it... # It's perfectly clear. # The illuminated reticle is really good with clean edges. # The zoom is quite stiff to move, even with the throw lever (hopefully this will loosen with time) ... and as a one stop package, considering everything you get with it, I'm very happy (and it's passed the teenage son test, he wants one).

Raising my DMR game... https://i.imgur.com/sd8pVp8.jpg ... and helping my failing middle-ages eyesight 🤣

I swear by both types of these... https://www.airsoftworld.net/6mm-proshop-re-enforced-350rd-speed-loader-multiple-colours.html ... pistol and M4 mag type. With the metal tip they don't fall apart and seem to load far easier.

Which is why my AEG is completely setup / upgraded to shoot nothing lighter than 0.32g and I run my DMR setup / upgraded for no lighter than 0.40g. I can get maybe 90% of other players due to the extra range without them getting me, so if I get hit by someone when at range I bow my head to the better player 👍

Playing just before Xmas 2023 my DMR shat itself, only a few minutes into the first game, a grinding noise and then no nozzle movement. I assumed that I'd stripped a gear, but had to wait until Jan 2024 to take a look as I didn't buy any parts before AK2M4 closed for the holidays. Taking it apart today it was totally not what I expected, in that the screw holding the Maxx Model piston head onto the XT full metal rack piston had worked loose and somehow jammed the piston in its rear most position (and the M130 spring had a few kinks in it). I had used Loctite, but it was a bit on the old side and a quick Google says that it does have a shelf life so my bad Everything else was good though so got a new XT piston from my spare parts box, along with an XT piston head with bearing and fitted them. I also decided to swap to SHS 18:1 gears and go from a 4/5ths cylinder to a closed / full one so moved down to a new XT M120 spring to first test with. All is good, however with the full cylinder and M120 I'm now just a fraction of a Joule off of the DMR limit for my local site so I'm well chuffed with that Secretly I'm hoping that the full cylinder will equal an extra foot or two of range, so can't wait to play again.

Red Alert in Newbury do them a few times a year... https://www.facebook.com/RedAlertPaintballNewbury/?locale=en_GB

Improved accuracy, grouping of shots and ability to lift heavy BB's. The hop unit in the AAP-01 is way better than the stock WE EU17 one anyhow, but a better bucking makes a big difference (I run a Maple Leaf 60 degree silicon Autobot with 0.32g BB's, and the bucking gets them noticeably further and has a huge effect on grouping). For full auto start with the hammer, it really need to be done otherwise it will fail. But to be honest full auto is a bit pointless, unless you're going HPA, with cool down etc (it's very snappy on semi out of the box and it's so easy to improve).

Replace the hammer, even the second gen one, with... https://www.empireairsoft.co.uk/aap01-tm-g18c-cnc-steel-hammer.html ... and you'll get no mechanical faults (the Cow Cow hammer set can be temperamental). Swap in a Autobot or Flamingo bucking and you'll hop BB's over 0.30g with no issues, change to a Hadron Loki and you'll hop 0.40g or higher. It's not a silent sidearm but massively better than a WE EU17 Gen4 (accuracy, gas efficiency) and you can use your Gen4 mags My son and I use them as our side arms, however the 1st gen hammer did fail on mine...

All looking forward to the annual Xmas game at Ironsight Airsoft, 30 minutes in and my DMR shat itself, I think a stripped gear 😭 Still, a good day with my AEG, loads of my son's friends were there so he had a great time, and a great way to end the airsoft year.