Adjusting Halo-B motor Torque?

[murat]

Can it be done??? I'm sick and tired of getting breaks in the Halo

I see a small dial on the on the electronic board. Can this be an adjustment for the torque of the motor? What will it do when you turn it left or right?

Thanks

 

[Ben Frain]

I feel your pain...

...best bet is to just order a victory board for your Halo as it has a speed selector built into the software.

 

[Steve Hancock]

I greased my drive belt which helped reduce the torque a bit. But those victory boards sound good where do you get one of those?

 

[murat]

I have the Victory board and used the setting #4 (28bps) I could lower to #3 (24bps) but I think it only lowers or increases the speed of the motor and has nothing to do with force being applied to the balls (IMO)

Any idea about that tiny dial on the board?

 

[MrPink]

The Pot on the board is for Eye sensitivity and doesn't affect the motor speed or torque in any way.

 

[Ben Frain]

Originally posted by murat
I have the Victory board and used the setting #4 (28bps) I could lower to #3 (24bps) but I think it only lowers or increases the speed of the motor and has nothing to do with force being applied to the balls (IMO)

Any idea about that tiny dial on the board?

But I assume that (and I may be wrong here!) if you reduce the speed down to 3,2 or 1 it will also be reducing the spring tension on the stack.

As it is such a simple procedure why not just try my suggestion and see if it fixes the problem? I had the same issue with a ReloaderB but as soon as I dropped it down to speed 1 the problem disappeared.

 

[Tom Allen]

Watch this space.

I am working on a device for the halo B, which will limit the force applied to the ball, and will be adjustable.

 

[murat]

Yeah, I'll try with a lower setting and a fresh set of batteries. I hope it will work.



Tom,

Such a device would be great

 

[Tom Allen]

It works quite well, just got to iron out production problems.

 

[Mikey D]

while we're on the subject of victory boards. anybody with one care to put my mind at ease?
fitted mine this week (thanks fatbeerboy) and switched it on to see the full speedy effect.
Indeed it does seem a whole lot faster at 35bps, and it just continually turns, not pulses like my old T1 board. Now one thing i was concerned about, when i used my finger to cover the eyes, mimicing a full stack of balls in place, the motor still turns for a fairly long time this worried me as i have a very short neck on mine, and feel that the cone still turning after filling the neck is gonna break a load of balls so very easily.
can anyone tell me if this is the case on theirs and i have nothing to worry about????