Posted by: Mike King on July 09, 2003 at 08:03:03

Maybe I'm missing the point here as I'm quite new to this sport, but having looked into the technical side of paintball guns recently, it seems as though every gun, from the humble pump-action right through to the top-end masterpieces, all seem to use a hammer to strike a spring-loaded cup seal and release compressed gas to fire a paintball. At the same time, many of these guns utilise a programmable microprocessor to control 3-way valves, etc. - pretty advanced stuff. What I'm wondering is why can't the high-pressure gas be released via an electro-pneumatic valve whose degree of opening (and thereby the pressure at which a paintball is fired) is controlled by a variable voltage signal? If this was the case, it would take most of the guesswork out of the finer points such as valve spring tensions, hammer weights, etc., make the gun a whole lot simpler mechanically and allow precise fire-control - You could fire the balls at low, high or even a gradually increasing pressure, decreasing ball damage and probably increasing accuracy. If anyone has any thoughts on this I'd be most interested. Cheers.

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