A5 Response Trigger Problem

First of all - noob here when it comes to paintball.

Ordered my first gun - A5 with response trigger installed already.  I put on a double trigger, flatline barrel, and stock.  I have a remote line with CO2 powering it.  Bought some marballizers and took a few shots.  The response trigger worked well. 

I turned off the co2 - shot it until it ran out of gas and unhooked the line.  I put the marker in my garage and left it there till about a week later.  I hooked it back up and shot it - but this time it just shot single shots - every once in a while it would shoot like two shots.  I couldn't just hold back the trigger.

I got out my manual - tried turning down the velocity half a turn.  (I dont' have anyway to check the velocity but I heard the flatline should be a little lower.)  I then started to try turning the air supply (don't know if that is the right term - the small valve your turn with the screw driver) to the trigger up and down.  That didn't do anything. 

I turned it closed as suggested in the manual and it would barely fire as the manual said.  I started turning it open while popping off a shot every once in a while.  I got the nob turned pretty far and the response trigger still didn't shoot when I would hold the trigger back.  It was always one or two shots.

I ended up playing like that and it was a blast (first time).  Man that was fun.

But, I'm wondering if anyone has any advice before I attempt disasembling the handle and try checking the response parts as suggested in the manual. 

I check the tube on the outside of the gun that seems to bring the air to the handle.  It was connected well. 

My garage did get cold - we had some 30 degree weather - but I brought my gun inside that day until we played and it was warmed up.  Plus as the day went on it was in the 60's and the gun only ever shot one paintball with a trigger pull.  Before hooking it up the second time, I did put some gun oil on the top of the co2 tank before connecting it as someone suggested.  Don't know if that may have done anything.

Any advice is appreciated. 

I will do that.  Anyone recommend a brand and give me a price range on it? 

Just curious - Does anyone know if the a5's come set at a certain fps range?

And just to understand - you believe the velocity is the problem?  I guess I'm curious why it worked one time and not the next at the same velocity.

Thanks

The A-5 RT isn't as easy to sweetspot as the 98 RT, for whatever reason.  There are some easy mods to fix that.  The main one is the "straw mod" - a search will show up a bunch of threads on that.

Also remove the trigger spring.  Helps a little bit.  Then, if you are still feeling like tweaking, replace the RT hose with macroline - aka the "Super RT mod".

Start with the straw mod - that will make sweetspotting a lot easier.

Good luck.

my A-5 was a real pain to tune in the R/T one thing I will suggest that
does take a lot of time but I found it was what did the trick, don't be
tempted to turn the adjuster screw 1/4 turn at a time, it only takes an
1/8 turn to make my trigger go from pretty much full auto to no response
at all, they are very sensitive, and it could be a change in weather
between the times you used it causing the CO2 pressure to fluctuate
enough to throw off your settings, as everyone said you have to make
sure you chrono your marker and with CO2 you will find your velocity will
change throughout the day it's pretty sensitive to temperature changes,
and all you do to tune it is start with it gently turned all the way in and
slowly back it out and each time you adjust it give a couple of shots by
slightly and slowly pulling the trigger until it just fires eventually you will
notice it starting to burst fire once that happens you really only need to
adjust the screw very minute amounts and if it gets worse go back in, it's
a real pain the first time you set it up but once you feel what you're
looking for you will be able to set it easily any other time

thejudge wrote: Also to add to the last post, i have heard of double triggers being even harder to tune due to the added weight of the trigger.  you may want to consider trying just the single trigger and see if it works any better.

QFT

Most of the time you can test this by just using one finger on the top half of the trigger.