Eblade setup and tweeking tips...

[ThunderCat]

Originally posted by gyroscope
I wish I could hear you guys saying "aluminum."

We wish you guys would pronounce aluminIum properly!
I always thought the moon bugy was made out of some special material until I found out Americans just get confused with too many 'i's

Anyway, the reason I was posting.... Thanks for all the info you've posted on E-blade setups, just got mine and I'm gonna be tweaking away this week
With the bolt colour, does that affect the eye at all? I know some paint coors require eye adjustment.
At the moment I'm failing to understand how the eye can actually confirm a fully loaded ball in the breach so that might be a stupid question....

 

[Gyroscope]

There is no "I" in... oh wait.

The bolt color doesn't matter at all. The ACE for the eBlade sees an empty breech (EMPD), then sees a breech with a ball in it (BALD), and allows the next part of the cycle to commence. And so, the circle of life continues....

The color of the bolt doesn't matter because we don't use a "bolt detection system." We're detecting the paintballs here. The only advantage to having a white bolt that I can conceive of its this: When you are verifying that your eye is plugged in, and you are doing so without paint, you can open and close your breech manually while watching the value of the eye reading change drastically. That's about it.

 

[ThunderCat]

Can you explain to me how the eye knows how much of the ball is in the breech? as far as I can tell, the eye is mounted at the top so if a ball was half in the breech it would be seen by the eye?

Also I was stripping my gun down after playing at the weekedn and the bolt seemed to be dragging and there is a definate wearing down on the bottom of it near the back, should I be worried?

 

[Skeet]

Roll it on a flat surface...is it bent?
gaz

 

[Gyroscope]

Originally posted by ThunderCat
Can you explain to me how the eye knows how much of the ball is in the breech? as far as I can tell, the eye is mounted at the top so if a ball was half in the breech it would be seen by the eye?

Also I was stripping my gun down after playing at the weekedn and the bolt seemed to be dragging and there is a definate wearing down on the bottom of it near the back, should I be worried?

I will try. I base the following from things I read in the eBlade manual and postings by people who gave me and others advice that worked or showed consistent logic, if I didn't try it. If I am mistaken, I eagerly await enlightenment from someone who knows better, like Mr. Wood or maybe Simon or whoever.

(If I understand things correctly) it doesn't know how much of the ball is in the breech- it senses that something is reflecting a higher frequency of light back to the eye, of the IR beam that is projected by the eye. So, it "sees" something in the path of the beam. If the sensor is mounted higher, I would imagine that a higher BALD value would be required. If it is mounted lower, a lower BALD value should suffice. That way, the sensor detects an object (hopefully a ball) reflecting the beam, and makes sure that the ball continues to reflect that beam for long enough that the ball can get comfortable in the breech. If the BALD is too low, and the sensor too high (geometrically, in relation to the breech), I guess you'd risk chopping paint.

WAS has just developed an anti-chop eye for the Impulse board they are making that uses a different kind of IR sensor. It reads texture, like the beam on some computer mouses (mice?). It actuallt can detect the curvature of the ball as it fall into the breech. It can also tell the difference between a paintball and a glass ball, or a ball bearing or whatever of the same size (cool, huh?).

As to the wear at the back bottom of your bolt, any drag will create problems. Is the bolt pull pin vertical? I mean, does it go in the top of the back block?

You shouldn't be worried, you should be curious.