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Fitting it in the F2000 tonight, as it seems I just have to de-solder one motor wire and then solder it on to the other one, and attach one signal wire to the open contact. Sounds simple enough! What could possibly go wrong?!?

@Rogerborg It'll be interesting to compare our experiences of the Perun AB++ versus the Gate Merf. I was so close to buying that Perun, before tracking back to the basic version, and then jumping back up the complexity list to the Merf. I'm wondering if I've now made a mistake, missing out on the pre-cocking option for the sake of a few quid. Time will tell...

Haha, well I'm probably getting to the same point but in reverse... Ordered a mosfet this morning, and I've just ordered, well, made an offer close to the asking price for the same batteries, before seeing this thread ? I've ordered the Gate merf so have active braking and rof reduction as options, if I have the same problem. (Edit:. Rof reduction doesn't affect semi auto, they leave rof unaffected to aid snappiness) This will be my first MOSFET fitting so might not go smoothly, but I will try to do it as soon as I receive it

I was interested in the same mags so watched a few reviews etc. I think the advice I absorbed was to run the mags at 120 rounds until they'd really settled in, before trying to squeeze them to full capacity. No idea if that's any use in your case though

Thanks @Iceni I've changed my order from the Perun to the Merf. This gun, if it runs well, is probably going to be my primary going forward, so might as well spend an extra few quid to make it as good as possible (it's already a bit of a money pit, compared to the great value of the DE) So thanks for your advice, much appreciated

Understand where we are coming from - we are being told to take security more seriously these days, I constantly get bombarded with stuff at work about phishing attempts actively occurring etc... So let's consider your page: it's a stock photo image of some trees on a one page website, built in seconds on a web site builder. It's more effort than I'd normally credit a spammer for making, which is why I responded in a friendly way first time... but when it's pointed out, it looks (to quote the youth of today) "dodgy AF", and I was glad I'd not entered my email address. If I was putting together a similar page I'd at least have put some effort into the presentation (i.e. an actual airsoft-related image for a start) because - as you've seen first impressions really count. I have to add that your attention to detail is lacking - which isn't a great attribute in a programmer: The email address you've provided has a spelling mistake: I don't know if your email address is really 'enquries' or 'enquiries'. You quoted my same reply twice. Your spelling isn't perfect ('unwarrented'), but everyone makes mistakes, and yet you must be actively ignoring the spell checker underlining your mistakes in red. That makes me wonder how you could write code to run your site. Programmers can't get away with mangling syntax. You definitely need to get someone to proof-read your content if and when you do 'go live' because poor spelling and grammar will not inspire confidence in the reader (That's a thing any developer should do, not just a comment on you) After saying all that, I wish you all the best of luck with your endeavours. Please take this as constructively as you can. That soldiers' personal admin is SHOCKING He's not done up his laces! Poor camo too, insufficiently tacti-cool. And what loadout is that supposed to be? Does he have the correct number of lace-holes in those boots???

Yes, yes you did I guess I'll say in Titan's defence that the jury's still out. It may have been my fault I've managed to break them, but I won't be buying another (just in case) I'm trying to retrain my brain to consider batteries as 'consumables' rather than some monolithically expensive bits of kit, that they were when I first played airsoft. If I kill a £10 battery (as long as it doesn't set fire to my house) it's not really an issue. Killing a £40 Titan will still sting a bit (though their customer service on the first failure was excellent, had a new one couriered to me in days), but I will miss the idiot-proofing* and the huge mAH rating I've already put my order in for the cheapo Perun but those Gate Nano Hard is especially tempting. I may change my order as I don't think it's been dispatched yet. The Merf does indeed also tempt, but I hadn't asked this previously - how well do the burst fire modes work on the two-stage semi/semi semi/auto trigger system in an F2000? Does that break the functionality? * Idiot-wiring not included in idiot-proofing

I've just re-tested the gun - It's running fine on a 7.4v LiPo, an 8.4v NimH, and of course the 11.1v LiPo (which was dangerously low on juice, as it happens) Perhaps logically I'd have to put money on the Titan while the other batteries are ok, but I've now had two of them failing (one with a clickety-click and the outside wrap melting to reveal the gold foil beneath) which suggests something is wrong somewhere. I'm quite prepared to believe it's my wiring or something I've done, but I'm not feeling qualified to work out what The F2000 is getting opened up in the next day or two for a lube and maybe a piston swap, and fitting the Mosfet, so I'll see if there were any potential short circuits that might have done it. I bought the Perun Mosfet w/wiring, I remembered I there's plenty of space in the battery compartment for one of the cheapo battery monitors, so that'll do. I'll buy a couple of cheap Turnigy nano cells from Hobby Kings. I've had one of those fail on me already too, and I didn't think I'd run it completely flat. I hope my unluckiness with batteries doesn't lead to fire / flames / explosions ?

It looks like I'll need to run an 11.1v battery since I upgraded my gun with a new motor (SHS High Torque Motor 16TPA)... I've perhaps managed to kill a Titan 7.4v 3000mAH by plugging it into this gun. (Or it could be entirely unrelated). Anyway, I'm going to fit a Mosfet so I can use 11.1v batteries in the future. I've already got a Mosfet'd gun in my Double Eagle M906C, and I have to say I don't really need all the advanced features. Binary and burst are both cool, but I've not tended to use either. So I don't need to pay extra for those. I'm perhaps more interested in active braking and pre-cocking, but given my front-runner is the Perun AB++, I'm wondering how effective those are when there are no sensors on the gears? Also, the Perun just does an alarm when the battery gets low, I'd rather it shut off in case I don't hear the alarm and I run it too low and kill it... is that worrying unnecessarily? Are there better options for my limited needs?

I've fired off an email to Titan, to see if the customer service people have any suggestions. It'll be bloody annoying if I can't get it fixed / replaced, the 7.4v Li-Ion is ideal for my non-Mosfet F2000 if it's enough to drive that motor. But if I do have to go the Mosfet route... I'm thinking the Perun AB++ and a bunch of Turnigy Nano-Cell 11.1v sticks should see me all right

I think you might struggle to find a retailer who'd "re-tone" a gun for the same £15, I suspect they're maybe taking a small hit in profit to widen their market place by offering the two toning service. Also I think some guns are manufactured that way? ("Pre two-toned"?) However, I have had great fun painting my guns with some camo paints bought from Halfords (and there are lots more paints on eBay too). Personalised guns FTW! Wear and tear may make the bright colour show though, which might not look as acceptable as some original black or tan paintwork.

Yeah I have one of those little Amazon jobbies... Not a peep (or indeed a beep) out of it... Tried charging with my new SkyRC T100 (which is how I charged it initially) and in desperation the old ASG Balance Charger too. Nothing doing The T100 reports "Connection Break"

Hop unit and bucking arrived and fitted! I actually just got the Lonex bucking as Airsoft World were cheap for the hop unit and p&p, and I could get the Guarder off eBay later (£6 inc p&p) if needed. It's 50deg, and seems nice and flexible - especially compared to the stock item that feels like it designed to survive being nuked from orbit A quick fire test fire in the garden was successful! I could see a difference between hop off and half-on, and it was back to feeding well, whereas it wasn't after my field tech experiment at the weekend (I tried to reinforce the nub, and then tried to pack the bucking window with a bit of thin plastic film. Both caused feeding problems) Obviously there's a difference between my room temperature gun shooting at 15m, compared to out on site at 30+m, but I have a better feeling about it. ------ An issue arose though. I plugged in my Titan 7.4v Li-Ion battery, and it wouldn't shoot. It (the battery) seems to be dead in fact. I can't get it to charge. I suspect my second warranty claim won't be entertained as successfully as the first Is the High Torque motor the cause? Will I need to drive it with an 11.1v now?

Just be aware that putting in the tightbore may make your gun more susceptible to getting a BB jammed in there, and you'll be wanting to buy top-end ammo (like Geoff's) to avoid problems, where you might have got away with the cheap stuff before. Even that's no guarantee - when you're potentially getting through thousands of BBs in a day there's always the odd one going to be out-of-spec. Anyway, it's up to you to decide if extra accuracy is worth that potential issue / increased ammo cost.

Welcome back! I've done similar to you, returning after a long hiatus. The obsession bug has bitten deep on me too, I've always researched deeply on any purchases I've made, and with Airsoft the amount of stuff to look at is HUGE so it's almost never ending ? (Except I actually have reached the point of owning so much stuff that I've got nothing left to get, I'm now buying better versions of stuff I've already bought. This makes me sad ?) One piece of advice I think everyone will give you... Don't buy two tone. It'll be a PITA to repaint, better off getting a UKARA or joining a site with a shop that'll sell you a black gun when they know you're serious. Quite a few of us have Double Eagle M4s, they're reasonably priced and seem to be reliable, though may need a spring upgrade early in their life. Luckily that's easy. I love mine. Plenty of threads on here about them. CO2 pistols can run too 'hot' so some sites don't like them. Check before buying one. Your alternative is to buy a Tokyo Marui pistol that will run well in the cold weather, and be rather accurate too.

Sights are great when the BB's go where they supposed to, but awfully irritating when the BB's decide to go off-line and you can't zero the sight. I had that with my AR15 so would revert to fitting the iron sights (and then not use them!) Anyway glad it worked for you. I too had a great time pinging people with first or second shots from my DE + Kobra at the weekend ?

+1 for all that. The first time I split the gearbox the spring flew out sideways and the trigger and all the gears were everywhere, and I didn't have the self-confidence to try to put it back together. But if you spend enough time looking at the internals, they're not actually that complicated and most of the stuff fits together quite logically (although it may be oh so super-fiddly). The one real terrifying thing is if the spring goes flying and knocks the shims off your gears. Learning to assemble / disassemble the gearbox AND learning to shim at the same time is a bit of a steep learning curve, so do your absolute best to ensure that spring is held in place. And then look carefully on the gearbox shell for any shims that may be stuck there, so you can keep track of where they ought to be. The anti-reversal latch is a complete PITA so another thumbs-up for using magnets to keep it in place during reassembly. I actually made a jig of a small piece of wood with some nails and screws in it to act as a third pair of hands when putting my gearbox back together. And then I stacked some magnets into a hole in the wood under the latch to hold it. But you can just stick them straight on the shell. It ain't pretty but it works... (this is a v3 gearbox btw)

Good luck

I mentioned this in the 'how did your day go' thread, but I found the hop unit was doing approximately 'bugger all'. So although my gun seems fine at 15m, it's not hopping and consequently can't reach out past 30m. So time to get a new hop unit in there. So I have a couple of options... Either this lot: I could swap the bucking and nub for the usual Omega / Macaron combo of course or one of these which is a bit pricey but looks like it's got everything and should therefore be well matched ...? Which option is the better way to go?

Maybe I found another advert for the same batteries but it does have dimensions... And they should fit fine inside a buffer tube Dimensions: 101 * 20 * 15mm

An update because I took it on site yesterday... It did sit in my holster for 99% of the day, as most sidearms do, but I made a point of using it a couple of times, and then bashed through the two mags when the day finished. I'm not sure what the ambient temperature was... Cold but not freezing so maybe 8 or 9C ? But whatever it was the gun ran like a champ, firing as fast as I could pull the trigger with no problems whatsoever. I was using Abbey Predator (red can) gas. The pistol gets a big thumbs up from me ?

Just a hint to make URLs shorter and more readable, cos this one was a doozy ? You can truncate the link at the character before the question mark. After the question mark is just all the tracking info that tells the marketing dept where the URL originated, and isn't necessary to get to the correct page... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165176791649

Mixed day for me, mostly good but one downer and one item lost So off to Special Ops for the first game of the year. I spent so much time sorting out my kit my wife was taking the piss out of me... Revenge for New Year's Eve when she packed a suitcase for one night and I ripped on her ? The downer was when I took my newly painted F2000 to the range to dial in the hop at full distance for the first time. Chronoing bang on 350fps with. 20g, the damn thing would not lift my 0.28g BB's at all and consequently would not get past 30m. I only had a handful of 0.20s left so that wasn't an option really I took the gun to the play field but just stuck with the DE, and had a great time with it. I did take the F2000 with me, and this is where I lost a bit of kit. The sight protector bought from eBay for my Amazon-special Kingscope red dot got knocked off somewhere in transit. I'll have to get another and fix it in place... Velcro or glue. Did get a compliment from the site tech about the F2000's paint job, so I was keen to fix it at lunchtime to use it for the rest of the day I decided to do some field tech work on the hop. I reinforced the nub with a small length of fine plastic straw inserted in to it That didn't seem to make the bucking impinge too much into the barrel but I started getting lots of misfeed and double feeds. So I 'abandoned shit' and left it behind for the afternoon. Bought a second hi capa mag to cheer myself up ? More good times with the DE ... Great day out, good sportsmanship all round.

I had a good game today with my DE M906C. As its quite a short barrel I'm guessing that the standard cylinder would be a fair match for it. I certainly didn't feel out-ranged and got some good long range kills of my own (but I'm guessing around the 40-45m distance, which I consider good, but when you're DMRing, probably not so much!) That's with just the upgraded spring, hop and bucking.