Being 2nd hand I feel it’s a perfect candidate for some tinkering. I did add a seperate post the other day requesting some input from the forum on this blaster.
@Grubfac3 has already raised the limited throw of the firing mechanism which will be one of the things I’m planning on looking to mod and will post about once I pull it apart and see what I can do. Also contemplating cutting it back to a shorter version and a new paint job.
Nice work mate, will be interested to see the final results
Sometimes can be difficult asking for advice with particular model blaster when others here don’t own one or have modified them in a similar manner.
Luckily for us, blasters are still pretty much all the same in the way they are designed and operated……so normally whatever works best with different modified parts for one model normally translates across the board
I take it that you have a Gelblaster Leviathan with the electric mag feed wires hooked up?
What size battery are you running, assuming everything else is in good order, it’s possible that excess heat could be from a battery struggling to provide enough output for your upgrades
the hell why isnt that default ill give that a go tomorrow and see the effects. but i did spend hours shimming the box as perfect as i could so that the gears were smooth but not loose.
its the gel ball specific version with the terminals hooked up and the battery is a 11v that fits in the buffer tube (probably 1200mah). dont have it with me at the moment. but its weird that the upgraded motor gets so hot with a stock spring.
What gears, and spring are you using? What rps is it doing?
Also, try turning active brake as low as possible, or off. Active braking heats motors much more significantly and punishes your motors brushes and commutator.
Generally, if you have a setup that doesn’t double tap on semi, you don’t need much, or any active brake.
If you have precocking up high enough that you need active brake to prevent double tapping, the amp draw required when firing will be greater, also leading to more heating, and if up high enough that you need alot of active brake, the heat up effect will be more significant.
I know ze personally, stock hk416 spring no clue what it would be rated at, 16:1 shs gears, and a 1000mah 11.1v battery doing around the high 20’s for rps is the setup right now, at one point the ab was at 100% but told him to turn that down pretty quick. from memory, it’s at about 20% (?) any lower than that and starts overspinning if you are too fast on the trigger.
Swapping the motor out and eliminating it as the potential issue wouldn’t hurt either. I’ve had a vector give me no end of troubles that ended up being a defective motor.
you can walk around with this and no one know it is a grenade launcher. I bought it from Japan and no problem in coming to Australia but I don’t know will it be the same after this post
Seems like it would be a riot for a weird build in a milsim game. Dress up as a war reporter, and ask the enemy to gather up for a well composed “shot”
