Anyone done a TM MAC10 lipo upgrade?

[Deacon]

As above, has anyone upgraded a TM MAC10 to lipo and still have it working well after some time?

I know a mate tried and it ended up stripping the gearbox.

[Batcow]

Re: Anyone done a TM MAC10 lipo upgrade?

If you only go for 2s it'll be fine. 3s might strip things though.

[Phatvortex]

Re: Anyone done a TM MAC10 lipo upgrade?

I've done it to my TM G18. &.4v, and its working sexy after ~1000 rounds.

[dfrear]

Re: Anyone done a TM MAC10 lipo upgrade?

Updgrading it to an 11.1 lipo will be a bad idea without any extra work, but a 7.4 lipo should be fine really

[Boo-Sabum Ben]

Richardy has done a fair few of these I believe?

[badger906]

Re: Anyone done a TM MAC10 lipo upgrade?

airsoft guns dont need upgrading to run lipo. All i would recommend is changing from tamiya connectors to deans, to help deal with the current, as well as being a far more efficient connection.

A 7.4v lipo has only a slight increase in ROF over an 8.4v nimh.

However if you were looking to go 11.3v or 3cell lipo, then id recommend checking the shimming of the gears and that the AOE is set correctly, or youd have a stripped piston in no time.

But while your opening the gear box to do that, youd be best off replacing the stock TM gears, and replace them with an aftermarket set, then you could run a stiffer spring, and bring it past the usual 270~ fps they shoot. without worrying about stripping gears. then you may as well change the piston.. lol, so only go 11.3v if your a techy.

[Deacon]

Re: Anyone done a TM MAC10 lipo upgrade?

airsoft guns dont need upgrading to run lipo. All i would recommend is changing from tamiya connectors to deans, to help deal with the current, as well as being a far more efficient connection.

The battery in the TM MAC10 is an Micro Ex type 7.2v Ni-Cd (http://www.zerooneairsoft.com/product_info.php?products_id=2628), The upgrade would be to change the battery connection so that I could connect a lipo with deans instead.

[badger906]

Re: Anyone done a TM MAC10 lipo upgrade?

i do apologies, im getting my guns confused, my tm mac 10 and usi
Was trying to clear up the "lipo ready" discussion i had with someone at the weekend, who assumed you had to spend £££ and about 1000 man hours making a gun run on lipos.
in that case i shall try and dig out my guide i did on an other forum for glock 18 AEP (same principle)

[baddbaz]

Re: Anyone done a TM MAC10 lipo upgrade?

11.3 lipo???? Dosnt exist !!! 11.1 v mate

[badger906]

Re: Anyone done a TM MAC10 lipo upgrade?

yeah i was having an off night ive always said 11.3v for some reason, always being winged at on the rc car forums for that one. 3.7v x3 = 11.1.. think the .3 is just stuck in my head from 3.3v per cell cut off. ill go away now i wrote one of the first lipo guide for airsofting on a US forum, and now i just sound n00bish lol. moving on!

[Batcow]

Re: Anyone done a TM MAC10 lipo upgrade?

Either unsolder the current battery connector part and add whatever connector you want to use(I'm going to suggest mini deans as opposed to full size to save space and over micro because they are just pathetic), or you can just solder some wires in parallel to the current connector/terminal thingy with a connector on the end if you want to keep the ability to use stock type batteries.