Got a technical question for you gents. In Treaty, on our cruisers our pumps are only charged for .5 units. For a typical 3.0 unit CA or CL this allows us to have a standard dual stern set up and pump with .5 units left over. An interesting arrangement is to set the ship up with triple sterns (or bows if you wish). The problem is, that one of those guns would only carry 25 rounds, and would waste CO2 after that last round was fired. What my question is, has anyone tried or developed a method to cut CO2 to a gun which no longer has any ammunition left in the mag. Mike D
Use one of the sprae channels to put in a switch that can turn off that solenoid. Assuming you are using the kips. Then durring battle when it sounds like your out of bbs in that gun flip the switch and turn that solenoid off. You have plenty of gas for that gun to waist if you use a 3.5oz tank.
That's very true. Something I have done in the past with dual sterns is to run them off separate servos...pushing left fired one, back fired the other, and diagonal fired both. This is how I will be setting up my Salt Lake City. I could do the same thing driving two barrels off one channel and simply stopping going diagonal when the "short" gun was empty. I was wondering if anyone had developed an interrupter though for when those mags were empty which would automatically stop me from wasting the CO2. Mike D
Well, if you are good with PICs and know exactly how much ammo you have in the .5 unit gun, you could make a PIC that counts the number of times you pull the trigger. Once the trigger pull count exceeds the number of balls you have in the .5 unit gun, it stops firing that gun. I do not know of any mechanical method for doing this, though. Another option is to simply put in a bigger CO2 bottle to deal with the wasted gas. What do you think, is 20 ounces of CO2 enough, or would you need 24?
Gas isn't a problem, I just don't like wasting it. I'm already running 3 50 rd guns on a 3.5 oz bottle in my battlecruisers, so running 2 50's and a 25 should be cake. I was just hoping there was an easy way to automatically stop the wasted gas. If not, oh well, I can deal with that as well. Mike D
Once the Picaxe Fire Control circuits get finished (depends on whether Wreno or myself does it first), this is a very, very easy thing to do in software as was mentioned earlier. But, still working essentially on a more intelligent/cheaper plugin replacement for the Delta boards combined with rotation.
