This is a "If WAS releases a new board for the A-5" thread.

If it's a break beam system it will be an excellent system for sure.  But.......If it's a reflective eye system your paint selection "CAN" be limited.  With WAS boards, you have an option for either reflective or non-reflective bolts. In non-reflective bolt mode(black bolt mode) dark paint (black or near black) cannot be used effectively because the eye is only detecting the paint, not the bolt and when coupled with an eye that reads at the bottom of the chamber it insures very accurate feeding and zero chops.  This is my preferred mode even though sample times are slower.  It's still blazing fast.

White bolt mode will detect a light colored (preferably white) as well as non-black paint which gives faster sample speeds but is prone to chopping because detecting the bolt gives a false reading of paint being ready and the bolt may chop a half chambered ball.  This mode will allow you to use any color paint.

If WAS comes out with the board it will be well worth it. 

Heyya!

Most respectfully, I do not see why it would matter.

Why? Because the feeding system of the A-5 is timed and matched with the firing. Pull the trigger, hammer strikes the valve pin, air is released, etc so chopping really cannot happen.

That's just my thoughts and understanding.

Good luck!

Yeah if you still had a cyclone and eyes, you still wouldnt be able to shoot very fast. This is because after 18bps, the cyclone becomes a blender which eyes wont prevent. The A-5 wont chop, but blend at high speeds.

I see where your going if you mean an A-5 without a cyclone.

Jim is already at work on a board for the a5. 

FI makes a good point about the cyclone timing the feed.

Typical WAS fashion tells me the system will have an eye.

As far as bolt color goes for reflective systems black is the best option. 

cyclone = blender

nuf said

"it gon rain"

cyclone = blender

nuf said

I guess ignorance is bliss, ehh Strider

Wow. The board will probably have eyes, since Tippmann pretty much contacted WAS of their own accord and mentioned they were producing the Custom Pro E. There will be features useless to the A-5, but useful for the Custom Pro E. Did everyone forget that Tippmann released a new gun?

As far as the Cyclone, no electro hopper can beat it. Sure, some might feed faster, but look at ALL of the hoppers, not just the Halo and Q-loader. The Cyclone beats the crap with 18 bps limit out of most of them. And for chopping, it wins. How do I know it wins? Easy- the A-5 doesn't need eyes or an anti-chop bolt (as long as your paint isn't crap) to not chop. Sure, if you try to use large bore paint and put it through a small bore barrel the front bolt is going to destroy paint. And if the paint you use is brittle and crappy it'll explode from the front bolt. Thats the catch- the Cyclone doesn't break paint, your front bolt explodes the paint it broke into the cyclone. The A-5 doesn't need eyes or ACS bolts. Only guns with bad design need a secondary design (bolt, eyes) and a tertiary design (hopper) to fix their screw-ups or neglegence. The A-5 has a Cyclone, part of the initial design of the gun.

Mayhaps certain people need to know something besides posting "My gunz da roxsorz, a5 and Cyclonez ar teh suxsorz!"

Tonight I learned from a reliable resource that TE is currently using EQ boards for both 98's and A5's and both have eyes.  Can't wait to see what they came up with.

Did anyone read that post with my name next to it? Did I not explain anything to anyone there? Or was it too long? Here-

* Eye feature on WAS board for Custom Pro E

* Cyclone doesn't break paint, front bolt does with crappy/ wrong size paint

* Cyclone is a very solid design- you don't need to throw eyes, ACS bolts, or supa kuhl feeders on it. The initial design works.

*The only bad design was the shape of the hopper, which doesn't afect the Cyclone (it's an independant piece of the gun). 15 bucks will solve that.

jeep 98 custom, I hate to go against you, but your Cyclone was throwing signs out the size of atomic bomb explosions that something was wrong. Your piston probably had not much oil on it, and the rubber seal on the end of it was probably dried and hardened. I HAD the same problem, but I decided to fix it. And now it works perfect, no breaks.

Unless, you count me not knowing how to push in the safety with the JCS Duel trigger and catching the trigger on something and blasting my barrel plug off with a paintball.