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[ReduxRom]

So I recently bought a Stryfe. Good blaster, and I am planning to upgrade the motors to the ones that 0reo suggested here: http://nerfhaven.com...showtopic=23611 . I'll also do a slight voltage mod, since the motors are rated up to 9 volts, and the 4 battery slots gets you 6 volts already with regular alkaline batteries.

Enough of that. Anyway, I saw a video with those motors, and there was still some time for acceleration. So, I got to thinking, is there any way that we could speed this up more? What I came up with was an idea something like a stryfe with an extended barrel and a shotgun-style handle on it. When you pull the handle back, it would store energy in a spring that would instantly spin the flywheels when you pulled the rev-up secondary trigger. Hopefully, this would cut down on acceleration time, allowing for actual sneak attacks with rapid-fire semi-auto blasting. Of course, you could still pull the secondary trigger before cocking the handle for regular rev-up time.

Unfortunately, I am a beginner at making homemades, so I don't know how to get or make any of the parts for this project. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this idea work? It would be amazing if I could make a homemade with this added in. Couple that with noise-absorbent foam, powerful motors, a couple Trustfires, and you have a great flywheel blaster.

Edited by ReduxRom, 19 April 2013 - 08:16 PM.

[TheWiredDJ]

What I came up with was an idea something like a stryfe with an extended barrel and a shotgun-style handle on it. When you pull the handle back, it would store energy in a spring that would instantly spin the flywheels when you pulled the rev-up secondary trigger. Hopefully, this would cut down on acceleration time, allowing for actual sneak attacks with rapid-fire semi-auto blasting. Of course, you could still pull the secondary trigger before cocking the handle for regular rev-up time.

I don't quite think you understand how flywheels work... They run on purely electrical systems, no spring would have any effect on their use. They have a "spin-up time" due to the stall current they draw (the current it takes to get them up to speed), which can only be "sped up" by using a voltage source that can supply a lot more current. Alkalines and Trustfires don't quite have the discharge capacity that nicer battery packs have, and thus when using them, you will still experience that spin-up time.

And that's not saying go out and buy a few battery packs and throw more voltage at it to attain the current necessary, do some research and find something in your price range that doesn't exceed the voltage range of whatever motors you use and can supply current like a boss.

[ReduxRom]

I don't quite think you understand how flywheels work... They run on purely electrical systems, no spring would have any effect on their use. They have a "spin-up time" due to the stall current they draw (the current it takes to get them up to speed), which can only be "sped up" by using a voltage source that can supply a lot more current. Alkalines and Trustfires don't quite have the discharge capacity that nicer battery packs have, and thus when using them, you will still experience that spin-up time.

And that's not saying go out and buy a few battery packs and throw more voltage at it to attain the current necessary, do some research and find something in your price range that doesn't exceed the voltage range of whatever motors you use and can supply current like a boss.

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough. The springs would give the motors a boost when you accelerate them. Unless something is different with these motors, I have worked with the same type of motor, and spinning it in the beginning would speed up the acceleration time.

[Zorns Lemma]

No one has an idea of how to help you with your project because I'm pretty sure most people don't know how you would use a spring to rev up a spinning motor.

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