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so I'm having some terrible performance out of my gun and was hoping I could get some tips and help on why it's shooting this bad. Its shots a very random and all over the place. It was shooting better before I installed the prommy barrel and new r-hop patch. I sanded the patch with 600 grit and silicone oil.

Snow Wolf M82
Upgrades:
11.1 v 20c lipo battery
Extreme fire MOSFET
Deans connectors on everything
Matrix/aim prebuilt gear box
M140 shs spring
Shs standard ratio gears
8mm bushings
Gaurder nozzle
Shs Delayer chip
Matrix 3000 motor
Stock hop up chamber
Stock bucking
Prometheus 509mm 6.03 tightbore barrel

Mods:
Aoe corrected with Sorbo pad and tooth grinder down on piston
Cylinder head glued to cylinder
Piston o-ring stretched
R-hop
Mound sanded down on bucking
Flat M-nub from hs5
Hop up arm shimmed
One piece barrel spacer

.3 bioshot bbs, fixing to run out so now I will be using .3 matrix.

I think that is everything, if I can think of anything else I will let yall know.

Thanks for helping!
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I don't think 1000 grit is necessary. I used 600 on the last patch and it was shooting way better than this one and I did pretty bad on that one. The patch is VERY smooth, I doubt it could get any smoother tht it would make a difference.
The smoother the better. Also the wear lines can change it's trajectory a bit. Did you LRB the barrel?
If I make it any slicker it won't have no traction lol.
Yeah I was wondering if I shot it more it might "break in" the patch.

I have not LRB it yet. Mainly cause I'm not sure how. The inner barrel stops half way through the outer barrel so I wouldn't really be able to measure the bend very accurately. If you got any ideas I am all ears!
Now I have a problem, need help.

When I pull the trigger on semi it will shot once and then sometimes it will shoot a burst and then sometimes it won't shoot. I read another guy had a similar problem and his was the battery. I don't believe my problem is the battery because the battery is relatively new. So what else could be the cause? MOSFET maybe?
Now I have a problem, need help.

When I pull the trigger on semi it will shot once and then sometimes it will shoot a burst and then sometimes it won't shoot. I read another guy had a similar problem and his was the battery. I don't believe my problem is the battery because the battery is relatively new. So what else could be the cause? MOSFET maybe?
Might be your cut off leaver getting hung up or stuck, check it for free movement and also it returns positively from its spring pressure.

You might also be suffering from over spin, is your FET an AB type?? If not you may need to invest in 1 :shrug:
Thanks I will check it and report back.. And nope it isn't AB. I kept hearing bad things about them putting pressure on certain areas so I decided to stay on the safe side and get a non active breaking one.
Thanks I will check it and report back.. And nope it isn't AB. I kept hearing bad things about them putting pressure on certain areas so I decided to stay on the safe side and get a non active breaking one.
They are fine, its only the non knowing that bleet that BS, I used AB MOSFETs for years with no adverse effects on my motors when I raced RC cars at a national level, so quite why everyone thinks they'd damage our motors is beyond me, especially when you consider the operating systems are virtually the same :shrug:

It is only operator lack of routine maintenance that causes the damage they blather on about :yup:
Wish I would have heard about that before I bought a non AB one!! lol thanks for the info!
You can wire your trigger switch to provide reverse polarity when you release it, but that is very aggressive as opposed to a proper P channel FET.


You could also, if your confident enough and can just about decifer a schematic, wire in your own P channel FET to your existing N channel.


Alternatively, I've posted loads about making your own, as its 95% cheaper to make one than buy them, and if your even shabby at soldering you can do it :shrug: give it a quick search
Can i get the material to make a high quality AB FET to with stand a 11.1v battery at local stores?

I will probably to some research later when I get a chance.
Probably not, as most are specialist parts.


The internet is the best place to order them from, from specialist suppliers, they're far more likely to carry what you need as every day stock.
Making your own mosfets is fun, there is a whole wealth of information out there on it! Do your reading first, don't rush it, and get a semi decent soldering iron...

Don't do what I did and end up setting them on fire :) I went out and brought a decent soldering iron in the end so I can keep the heat down on them.
So I decided to shoot the gun some more to see if it was still doing it or doing it more frequently. It would shoot a couple round burst on semi every few trigger pulls. And then it stopped working all together! So I took it apart and found the small trigger wire going to the MOSFET snapped off the trigger. So that fixes the why it wouldn't work problem, but would that loose wire also cause it to shoot that burst?

I checked the cut off lever and it was pretty loose. Is that ok? I know it needs to be some what loose so it can move.
So I got a new nozzle to replace the one I had in there, because I sanded down the old one so it would feed everytime. But since that nozzle I replaced the mag so it will help the feeding. So I figured I would try a new nozzle since the mag was replaced. But now it only feeds every once in a while. Is there any other way to fix this besides sanding the nozzle? I already have a delayer chip installed.

I was messing around with it some more and I was able to get it to shoot if I held the gun upside down. So now this sounds more like a mag problem. It is a mid cap and has worked before. Can I add tension to the spring in the mag to make it feed?
If you take the mag apart you should be able to tension the spring some. Just don't pull the spring so far apart that it becomes a pain in the you know what to put back together.
In my experience it's not the inside of the mag that is the issue. If you push the thing that keeps the bb's in the mag to the side, does all the bb's pop out?
If no, try different bb's before you stretch the spring. Bad bb's cause a lot of bad feeding, even in great mags.
If yes, bad design of either the mag and/or the gun makes it not pushing the "thing" above enough. Two possible issues in this case, either how the mag sits in the magwell and/or how the "thing" meet with the feedingtube that feeds the bb's up to the bucking. Try pushing the mag upward/forward, if it feeds now it's the first option. Solved my adding material to the magcatch or where the magcatch catches the mag, or with a well-placed piece of tape or a spacer somewhere in the magwell, usually "behind" the mag.
If it's the last option it's a really shitty gun :yup: Then you'll have to either extent the hop-up feedingtube or add material to the "thing" so it is more easily pushed aside.

Now this gun has an M4 mag inside of its own right? Adding something underneath the M4 mag, thus lifting it upwards may solve the issue, and is probably the easiest thing to do, I'd try that first.

Hope it's understandable and helps. Good luck!
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I added a small space to the spring and I put a couple strips of electrical tape in front of the gearbox and now it is feeding everytime.

Thanks for the help guys.
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