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Brushless motors in airsoft?
11 April, 2011, 11:39
Why have they not been tranfered over to airsoft yet?
If anyone has seen an RC car run on a brushless and a lipo they will know they go like the proverbial of a shovel.
With people trying to make guns faster it should be up at the top of the list for manufacturers.
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11 April, 2011, 11:51
Re: Brushless motors in airsoft?
Perhaps it would just break internals, a couple of guys at my site have thought about doing it but can't remember the reasons why they didn't
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11 April, 2011, 12:19
Re: Brushless motors in airsoft?
There are a few posts of people doing these but aparently (don't shoot the messenger) the problem lies with having to get a motor and motor controller in a pistol grip.
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11 April, 2011, 12:31
Re: Brushless motors in airsoft?
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There are a few posts of people doing these but aparently (don't shoot the messenger) the problem lies with having to get a motor and motor controller in a pistol grip.
Would it not be possible to locate the control circuit elsewhere in the gun, such as in the stock?
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11 April, 2011, 12:39
Re: Brushless motors in airsoft?
The brushless motor requires 3 wires to work for a start.
Also, they work better when they run continuously, such as in an RC car. The start/stop use in airsoft makes them less useful.
In fact, I'm not sure it would help at all, as the way they work needs to sense the rotary position of the motor. That can be done when it's turning using the 3 wires, but for the stop/start of airsoft, it might need separate sensors, meaning at least 4 more wires.
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11 April, 2011, 12:43
Re: Brushless motors in airsoft?
The control unit is essentially a bigger mosfet, so miniaturisation and a suitable location would work, you would also need to make the motor smaller as the RC ones are quite big. It all comes down to the general airsofters way of thinking though. We are scared of change. Which is why there has been very little advancement from TMs original design, only a couple of companies have had the balls to step up and do something new (system for one, and that was for realism).
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11 April, 2011, 12:55
Re: Brushless motors in airsoft?
Yup, a brushless motor controller needs a minimum of 6 MOSFETs - 2 for each motor wire. That's essentially 3 braking - type airsoft MOSFET units.
Why 2 each wire? - each wire needs to be able to connect to battery +ve, battery -ve, and disconnect in a particular sequence throughout each revolution. That requires 2 MOSFETS per wire.
TBH, If it would even work (and I'm not sure it would), I think that if there were any gain at all, it'd be less noise from the motor as there aren't any brushes to rub or arc.
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11 April, 2011, 13:17
Re: Brushless motors in airsoft?
brushless motors have a larger wind up time than brushed motors.
they need to complete rotation 5 or 6 times before the ESC will correct the motor timing for proper operation.. hence being pretty useless in airsoft
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11 April, 2011, 13:50
Re: Brushless motors in airsoft?
And i have my answer
I thought it would be as simple as just making the motor smaller.
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11 April, 2011, 13:57
Re: Brushless motors in airsoft?
Brushless motors that small are still quite advanced hence also cost a lot more than a brushed motors!
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11 April, 2011, 17:48
Re: Brushless motors in airsoft?
If an advance is needed. I think it would be better to completly revolutionise the gear box/ bb propulsion unit. Design and build something completly different.
A propane tank regulated by an electronic regulator with more realistic blow back.
Im not sure we really need to change idividual items. I have a gun that shoots over 60 bb's a sec, another thats is 40 a sec. The dsg could be short stroked and use a bigger battery and possibly get to 80 a sec, so we deffinatly don't need to speed things up.
A complete overhaul if anyone extremely clever is watching. Re do the whole platform. Even if each mid cap had a smalll propane tank made into it.
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