fine tuning an Ion

[Mikey D]

Only if you want it capped at a lower rof. that would be sensible if you had a revvy on it or something which wont keep up.
If you have a reloader/halo or egg, get that rof down to zero so you can shoot faster

 

[zxr]

I have an Y-Boarded Egg, i really wanna turn the ROF to zero?

Would it even have enough time to refill with Air? or would the PB's just roll out the end of my barrel?

According tohttp://www.zdspb.com/tech/ion/electronics.html to get 17BPS i would need to set my dwell to 46 from the bottom and the recharge 0.64 from the bottom.

Lowering the dwell would increase air efficiency?

 

[Mikey D]

simplest thing to do would be to leave the dwell at 52 and put recharge down to zero. you'll shoot 17 without drop off.

now if you want to fine tune it, you can use the calculator and decrease the dwell bit by bit, making sure at high rof you dont get drop off.

One thing to notice, if you have a dwell of 52, you can set the rof to 17 by having the recharge from about 0 up to a certain value, cant remember off my head. which means that you can already put the dwell down and still find you'll get 17 bps.

Ive never looked into it, but its probably what the tigers do with their kit

 

[zxr]

Sounds good to me

Can making any of these changes physically damage the marker, or will i just waste air and paint?

 

[Mikey D]

It wouldnt damage it at all.
It'll take a bit of paint and air to tune it, but if you know what you're doing and can spot when you've gone too far, it shouldnt be too hard.

 

[bulldog2k]

good advice Mike

One disagreement - when the bolt bumper o ring shreds, it won't cause a leak, just excessive wear and tear. It doesn't seal anything.

Also, the QEV argument continues to rage, and probably will re-surface all over again when the new boards come out