egg upgrades

[CraigG]

k ive done a wee search, and found that my yboarded egg is much the same to everyone elses in that its maxin out around 12bps

i also read that the zboards _should_ keep up with 15bps, but sometimes the motors let it down.

now i have found out the type of motor used, and a place to buy different types of this motor:

on to the question:

what motor do i need to get a half decent bps output in me egg, in terms of voltage and current, max rpms

ive got an angel, and from the things ive read, this rules out using a reloader


cheers
craig

 

[Shades]

I run an Angel G7 Fly along with a Speed 05 and find that only the Halo B can keep up with them. I do have an Egg with Z board that is just about ok with the Speed 05, but no way can it keep up with the Fly…

95% of are team use the Halo B Ripdrive combined with Angels with no problems at all.

For an even better combination talk to John C about the spitfire products on offer...

 

[Lucky]

I too am looking into this and basically it goes like this:
you'll need an 18V motor if you want it to last
Slightly less voltage is ok if the motor is a good one, which will spin faster but realistically it's trial and error
If you could PM me your supplier, i'll have a look and see what they have that's suitable as everywhere i've looked at no one could help because of the 18V thing?
Have you tried any of the other mods yet
just for reference, i was running freefall at 16.5bps, i changed to a Z board and it's gone up to a massive 17.5bps freefall, best £20 i've ever spent.......doh!
i've yet to try it on the gun
Later

 

[CraigG]

k ill need to strip down me egg and get the motor code again to find the supplier place, the egg motor is only 4.5v the boards have voltage regulators on them, so id think an 18v motor wouldnt even turn on,

i was thinking more trying to keep the voltage at 4.5v and getting a higher current and rpm rated motor. that way it would go faster, on the standard board, but would use the batteries quiker


im away this weekend and wont have a chance to do that search, but ill get on it on monday and ill be in touch.

ill wing a pm to johnc and see what hes got on offer

thanks for yer help guys

craig

 

[Oppy]

This is something i think Diablo66 and i have spoken about before - i have been looking into trying to use a RC car FET servo or one of the latest digital servos in the egg.

I understand that the board in the egg does voltage drop down to around 4v - 6v (not tested that myself) and that a 4.7v - 4.8 volt servo would be ideal.

I have just ordered a FEt servo and will let you know the results when a) it finally arrives- been waiting for about 2 weeks b) i get it fitted. that is 13kg torque and 0.13 sec @ 60 deg speed so should be quite quick enough and able to juggle those balls!!

Im assuming it should fit in and only need the gearing changing (taking the stop out of the internal gearing) but we will see

Anyway, if anyone knows different and thinks that this will go so fast and turn my paintballs into soup, lemme know!

 

[Lucky]

I think were all on a mission to speed our eggs diablo, you'd have thought it would have been done so many times by now.
I know people say buy a halo but i like my egg but just need it faster reliably and preferably a bit higher to allow for battery fade.
I don't know why i suggested that you'd need an 18V motor, after all i'm only an ex-electronics engineer who knows a little about resistors and all that sparky stuff, so i think i must be senile now. doh
Here's some other stuff knicked from the dark side, just thought you may be interested, but i haven't tried any other than the servo mod

*EASIEST* Egg Paddle Mod BPS increase -- ~1.5-2
Cut off all your paddles but two and keep them in a straight line. Reinforce them with something long and thing like a Popsicle stick or sewing needle.

Z board BPS increase -- ~3
Buy and install VL's Z board upgrade.

Glory Hound's Gear Shave Mod BPS increase -- ~1-3 (depending on how well your egg was made)
How to do it is pretty simple. Well I'll give you guys the simple text only description now and later hopefully one with pretty pictures. Ok?

Diablo66 says: I tried this and it made no difference apart from the gearbox is now a lot quieter, but then i used silicon spray as a lubricant.

To begin with I had noticed my EVOII hopper was somewhat slower than the one a friend of mine had (Hi Ecco! You gave me the idea to do it), even using the same batteries, same board, same paint and everything. My hopper was also sounding louder than his. This got me thinking that there had to be some kind of resistance in the motor unit, perhaps the tolerances of the fit of the plastic gears inside?
What I did was I removed the motor unit from the eggo and opened it with a small electronics screwdriver.
I checked the fit of the gears and found them being slightly too tight a fit. I removed the center one and very carefully filed the outer teeth of the gear down a tiny tiny bit. Then I used a hobby knife to remove shavings and to scrape the bottoms between the teeth slightly. Then I checked the other gears, but they fit very well together. I cleaned all the gears from any plastic residue from the work on the middle gear. I also removed the grease internally, though only because I thought it might have little plastic shavings in it, and lubed the gears up with what I had at hand -PMI paintball gun oil. Any paintball gun oil would do nicely I think.
Finally I re-assembled the motor and then the hopper.
And that's about it. Doesn't sound too complicated does it?
Just be sure to note the placement of the gears, well they only fit one way but it helps a lot if you remember how they are supposed to be placed anyway before taking them apart.
Be careful, be gentle and even with the filing down of the gear and generous with the oil.

Also, the 9.6v batteries I use probably give about an extra 1 bps faster feed rate. So with normal batteries perhaps you'll get "only" 22-24 bps?

 

[Tricky]

Or you could just buy an ex Nexus egg like me and save yourself a lot of hassle

 

[Lucky]

Which are of course readily available from every outlet.
No that wasn't very helpful was it?

 

[Tricky]

No but they do come up on the forums every now and again, plenty of other pro teams have em modded and sell em when they're done too.

More helpfull than letting you waste ££££'s and hours searching for the ultimate Egg.

 

[Lucky]

I was just messin matey,
if we didn't want to waste time and money then firstly we wouldn't be playing paintball and secondly we'd go out and buy a halo
Simple really