HPR/LPR How it effects performance question

[ShaunChin]

Hey guys, i'm in need of a little help understanding how the HPR and LPR works individually and together. I was wondering if anyone could help out explaining them and how they could effect the markers performance? I'm pretty sure some new players out there would love to know more in depth about them too.

I was looking at this G6r video and i'm still wondering how did he get it to shoot so smooth. Someone said that set the dwell to 5, lower the LPR to lowest and increase the HPR. Can anyone justify this? Thanks in advance!!

 

[Bon]

The general way of looking at it is like so.

The HPR regulates how much air is used to shoot the paintball, the LPR manages the moving parts inside the gun.

By reducing the LPR down, when the air is used to move the parts around, its more a softer aproach. Think about swapping water between 2 buckets, if you pour in in slowly, no mess, nice and smooth. If you pour it in all at once, it will make a mess and lots of turbulance. Similar concept.

The dwell is how long once you open the HPR up, how long it will route the high pressure air to shoot the paintball. By having a lower dwell, you will need higher pressures of air to make it up, so you increase the HPR to compensate.

 

[ShaunChin]

The general way of looking at it is like so.

The HPR regulates how much air is used to shoot the paintball, the LPR manages the moving parts inside the gun.

By reducing the LPR down, when the air is used to move the parts around, its more a softer aproach. Think about swapping water between 2 buckets, if you pour in in slowly, no mess, nice and smooth. If you pour it in all at once, it will make a mess and lots of turbulance. Similar concept.

The dwell is how long once you open the HPR up, how long it will route the high pressure air to shoot the paintball. By having a lower dwell, you will need higher pressures of air to make it up, so you increase the HPR to compensate.

Hmm..ok..a few more questions though..

1. Is there such thing as tweaking the LPR/HPR too low or too high?

2. If I tweak a markers' LPR down to its lowest, what would happen? Would the marker not fire at all?

3. If I tweak the LPR to its max it means that the air efficiency would increase but the "kick" would increase?

4. Am I correct to assume that if i tweak the LPR to its lowest/low value, i'll have to compensate by increasing the HPR?

5. What is the significance of a low dwell and a high dwell?

Sorry bout all the questions..i'm trying to grasp the idea of how air works in a marker..

 

[Bon]

Hmm..ok..a few more questions though..

1. Is there such thing as tweaking the LPR/HPR too low or too high?

2. If I tweak a markers' LPR down to its lowest, what would happen? Would the marker not fire at all?

3. If I tweak the LPR to its max it means that the air efficiency would increase but the "kick" would increase?

4. As I correct to assume that if i tweak the LPR to its lowest/low value, i'll have to compensate by increasing the HPR?

5. What is the significance of a low dwell and a high dwell?

Sorry bout all the questions..i'm trying to grasp the idea of how air works in a marker..

1. Yes, if you do either of them too low the marker will not cycle or fire. If you do them too high you can blow out the internals.

2. If you do it too low, then the marker will not cycle, most markers have an "opperating range" as stated in the manuals.

3. No, not on its own, see below, also most markers have an "opperating range", going above this risks dmaging the marker itself.

4 +5.

Lower the lpr in you will lower the internal pressure, lower pressure will give you less kick, however to compensate you will need to increase the dwell. Increasing the dwell will give you less kick but also less efficiency.

If you rasise the lpr you raise the internal pressure, higher pressure will give you a cleaner shot. With a higher LPR you can lower the dwell, which will increase both efficiency and kick.

HPR is used to adjust FPS once you have your LPR and dwell set.

 

[ShaunChin]

1. Yes, if you do either of them too low the marker will not cycle or fire. If you do them too high you can blow out the internals.

2. If you do it too low, then the marker will not cycle, most markers have an "opperating range" as stated in the manuals.

3. No, not on its own, see below, also most markers have an "opperating range", going above this risks dmaging the marker itself.

4 +5.

Lower the lpr in you will lower the internal pressure, lower pressure will give you less kick, however to compensate you will need to increase the dwell. Increasing the dwell will give you less kick but also less efficiency.

If you rasise the lpr you raise the internal pressure, higher pressure will give you a cleaner shot. With a higher LPR you can lower the dwell, which will increase both efficiency and kick.

HPR is used to adjust FPS once you have your LPR and dwell set.

Ahh, alright. That makes sense. But what do you mean when you said 'cleaner' shot? Do you mean more straight/consistent?
What do you reckon the guy in the video did? Turn the LPR down and increased his dwell?

 

[Bon]

In a perfect situation a high lpr setup will be more accurate ball on ball.

 

[ShaunChin]

In a perfect situation a high lpr setup will be more accurate ball on ball.

Ahh. Alright. Thanks so much for your help. Looks like I need to play around with it a bit to fully understand what you mean. Cheeers!