can you put a better battery in a gun with out burning the moter?

[smith_mincha]

Can you put a better battery in a gun with out burning the moter? (better as in more mah or volts) what can you recomend for upgradeing a battery?

[CDN_Stalker]

Yes, provided you can fit the battery into or onto the gun. You won't burn the motor out by going with a higher voltage or mAh battery. Unless it's a low quality motor.

[Voodoo]

My buddy Johnydo has a 10.6V in his MP5!! at 50ft there can be as many as 80bbs in flight by the time the first one hits you. It speeds up the cicle rate of everything!

[ILLusion]

It also speeds up how quickly the mechanical parts wear down!! AWESOME!

That's fine if you're aware of that possibility or if you've reinforced the parts.

[seekah]

the mah is simply the life of the battery, you can thow on a fake radio pack on your back, and have it the size of 2 car batteries if you want, then you can truly say that your battery lasts longer than you!.
as for Volts, is a general rule of thumb to keep it at 8.4 for stock, and 9.6 for upgraded

[CDN_Stalker]

The mAh is also the current available to the motor. Check out the difference in the rate of fire of an upgraded gun between a 600mAh battery and a 3300mAh battery. The 600mAh will sound like it's struggling and will die off in a few hundred shots, but the 3300mAh battery will cycle the mechbox a lot faster and will last longer as well.

[JohnnyDo]

Originally Posted by ILLusion

It also speeds up how quickly the mechanical parts wear down!! AWESOME!

That's fine if you're aware of that possibility or if you've reinforced the parts.

So very true, I have stripped a couple pistons before I releized I needed a stronger spring to push the piston back into battery before the sector gear enguaged the piston again. *sigh* not to mention I didn't tighten my piston head and ended up breaking a Promethous hard piston *ouch $$$$*. now it's working just beautifully.

For anyone reading this .. do not take what illusion says light hearted. Running a hig ROF setup is costly if you make the slitest mistake and it's expensive. Expect things to break, expect things to strip and expect to always be worried about what will give out next. On the other hand .. having a mini gatling gun is soo worth the price *evil grin*

[ILLusion]

It's counter-intuitive, but as you increase the rate of fire, you MUST also increase some of the velocity to make sure the piston returns to its resting point before the sector gear comes swinging around again. Otherwise, as JohnnyDo pointed out, you're going to have a lot of busted parts.

Heavy upgrades must be done in a balanced manner, whether it's a high ROF setup or a high FPS setup.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, when going for high FPS, you must also upgrade the gears to a torque up set, not only to ease the stress on the motor and batteries, but also to prevent stripped gears. If you run regular ratio gears on a high velocity setup, the motor and battery builds up an incredible excess of potential (stored) energy in an effort to crank the spring/piston. As soon as the piston is released, all of that excess energy will cause the gears to spin around extremely fast, and the sector gear will strike the piston's toothrack before it's even at its resting point. Again, busted parts.