Gents,
I'm running a recently upped Ion, of which the relevant up's are SP QEV, Lucky Stage 2, Firebolt, Blackheart board, freak barrel system.
When the Ion was stock I could fire any kind of paint through it and would rarely get a barrel break. Ok, so it wasn't very consistent and not very accurate, but it worked.
My first up was a freak system, and from this got the odd barrel break. Maybe a couple in a day.
My next set of up's was the QEV and the Lucky Stage 2. After this I would get about a break or two per hopper. I've since put in a blackheart and a firebolt, and find that nothing much has really changed. I've tried stock barrel, twiddling with the dwell, twiddling with the fps, but nothing really made any difference.
Now someone mentioned that poor to average site paint might be the problem, so I put some Draxxus Frostbite through it and it works sweet as a nut, 20bps at full auto, ramping, semi, and not one break. Paint lasers as well with this paint, all straight as you want.
Ok, so good paint goes straight and has consistent paint to bore match, but why can't i just turn up at a site and use their paint anymore without all the hassles of the barrel breaks?
Now.... after my research I think I know what the problem is, and just wanted to see if others have been having similair problems, or have something to add.
It would appear the faster bolt action due to the QEV reduces the cushion of air in front of the bolt and causes more stress on the paint, therefore causing barrel breaks when using lesser quality paint.
I'm still experimenting with settings, and for my next day this weekend looking at dwell 20, ROF 50 on my blackheart to try and minimise stress on paint (prevously dwell 16 ROF 20). Also waiting for delivery of a lucky stage 3, to see if this helps.
Any thoughts gents?
I'm running a recently upped Ion, of which the relevant up's are SP QEV, Lucky Stage 2, Firebolt, Blackheart board, freak barrel system.
When the Ion was stock I could fire any kind of paint through it and would rarely get a barrel break. Ok, so it wasn't very consistent and not very accurate, but it worked.
My first up was a freak system, and from this got the odd barrel break. Maybe a couple in a day.
My next set of up's was the QEV and the Lucky Stage 2. After this I would get about a break or two per hopper. I've since put in a blackheart and a firebolt, and find that nothing much has really changed. I've tried stock barrel, twiddling with the dwell, twiddling with the fps, but nothing really made any difference.
Now someone mentioned that poor to average site paint might be the problem, so I put some Draxxus Frostbite through it and it works sweet as a nut, 20bps at full auto, ramping, semi, and not one break. Paint lasers as well with this paint, all straight as you want.
Ok, so good paint goes straight and has consistent paint to bore match, but why can't i just turn up at a site and use their paint anymore without all the hassles of the barrel breaks?
Now.... after my research I think I know what the problem is, and just wanted to see if others have been having similair problems, or have something to add.
It would appear the faster bolt action due to the QEV reduces the cushion of air in front of the bolt and causes more stress on the paint, therefore causing barrel breaks when using lesser quality paint.
I'm still experimenting with settings, and for my next day this weekend looking at dwell 20, ROF 50 on my blackheart to try and minimise stress on paint (prevously dwell 16 ROF 20). Also waiting for delivery of a lucky stage 3, to see if this helps.
Any thoughts gents?
