switching to air?

[HOOB]

Helo all.
iv heard that switching to air is well recomended but was wondering why.
I get the fact that c02 is a compressed gas and that air is more consistant, but was wondering what the main diffrences are in the perfomance of the 2 and what is the diference between hp or lp output (obviously this stands for low pressure and high pressure)
thanks hoob

 

[Kevin Winter]

When CO2 is compressed, it is a liquid, and VERY cold. It's preformance alters a lot with temperature, and, especially at high rates of fire, can pass into the gun as a liquid, leading to big spikes in your velocity as well as the risk of damaging internal components through freezing (espeically in high end guns using solenoids).
Compressed air stays as a gas, and is more consistent in terms of velocity, as well as avoiding the problems of freezing components. Plus, in the UK it seems to be becoming almost universal, whereas a lot of sites do not have CO2 available.

 

[foot]

C02 wont work with most electronic markers, like spartparts, eclipse, dye.

 

[Boothy]

as youve said air is more constant, co2 increases in pressure when its hot, increasing velocity and decreases in cold, deceasing velocity. also co2s a liqiud aswell which can damage markers, new electronic markers only run on air as co2 can damage the internals.
as for hp and lp, hp is 850psi and will run on most markers excluding angels, but i find that lp on markers that have a low operating pressure e.g. egos that lp works better

 

[HOOB]

so what sort of air system would you all recomend for a bt scenario type marker .

 

[BubbleGumBob]

carbon fibire 1.5l

 

[Bambulus]

carbon fibire 1.5l

Agreed
: )
If you're using a remote hose then check that the size bottle you buy fits into whatever pack you're using, but you should definately go for a fibre wrapped bottle over a steely.

 

[HOOB]

Ok thanks fellas ,but would that be high or low pressure

 

[Devrij]

High pressure definately

 

[Gee Tee]

so what sort of air system would you all recomend for a bt scenario type marker .

BT Markers like the BT4/Elite are designed to be run on air or CO2. They use a blowback design rather than full EP operation via a solenoid. That said they would probably still work better, and more consistently on HP air especially in cold weather.

The exception would be TM7 - which uses mini (EP operated) internals so would need air