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REALLY air hungry mini

mattz456

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Hey there, I've got a stock mini I think gen 2 and It's really air hungry, It's shooting at about 280-90fps and ASA is around 180-90psi and running on a 1.5 bottle with a 4500 pure energy reg. I have to fill up after every game!!!! What's wrong?! D:
 

mattz456

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It was leaking from the top of the trigger earlier when I stuck my tank on but I stripped the inners and put a bit of oil in and it began to work normally. Wasn't leaking when I was playing on the 29th either.
 

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Have you read the manual?

The front grip has an electronics board in it, on that are various settings for various stuff. One of them is dwell settings (default 25 blinks?) and I would change it to 35 blinks. The manual will show you how to do this.

Dwell is how long the bolt is in the forward position with air flowing through it to propel the ball.

Do you need a manual?
 

mattz456

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I bought mine second hand, I know all about the gun, how to change settings exc. I have a manual online .pdf
Never heard of this dwell or blinks thing before, how do I know what mine's set at?

Edit: I just remembered the manual says HPA tanks will cause problems such as extreme gas consumption.
 

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I bought mine second hand, I know all about the gun, how to change settings exc. I have a manual online .pdf
Never heard of this dwell or blinks thing before, how do I know what mine's set at?

Edit: I just remembered the manual says HPA tanks will cause problems such as extreme gas consumption.
Well, in the manual, you will see a setting called dwell. Every gun has a dwell setting. The manual will show you how to check and set it. When I say blinks, I mean flashes of the LED light you see flashing away. So 10 blinks is the same as saying 10 flashes of the LED. When you set the dwell it will first flash a number of times to tell you what settings its on. Then you readjust and it will then blink at you the new number of times.