What’s the difference
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Topic: What’s the difference
Posted By: xerphiz
Subject: What’s the difference
Date Posted: 18 August 2005 at 4:40pm
| Is there any difference between HPA and N2? |
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Posted By: Cheetos3254
Date Posted: 18 August 2005 at 4:42pm
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Nope ------------- 
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Posted By: xerphiz
Date Posted: 18 August 2005 at 4:45pm
| So are they the same thing, or do they just preform the same way, is what I mean? |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 18 August 2005 at 5:11pm
| in the paintball world there is no difference |
Posted By: bluemunky42
Date Posted: 18 August 2005 at 5:32pm
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there's no difference. ------------- 
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Posted By: SuzukiRider987
Date Posted: 18 August 2005 at 6:24pm
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Same thing, different names. ------------- http://www.macdev.net - MacDev Militia http://www.alienpb.com - Alien - Because winning is more fun. |
Posted By: brat mann
Date Posted: 18 August 2005 at 6:37pm
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HPA is High Pressure Air. Nitro is Nitrogen. From what I hear HPA is supposed to be "cleaner", "safer", and let's not forget, "better".
I can agree to safer, cuz eventually some idiots figured out that nitro is cumbustable, meaning you shoot a fire and get an explosion. Somehow this looked cool, and eventually someone got hurt and they came up with HPA.
viruses spread through computers like co2 messes up an ion. |
Posted By: RamboBlue
Date Posted: 18 August 2005 at 7:37pm
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no they mean the same thing in paintball ------------- TIPPMANN KICKS ASS Champions know pain, endure pain, and never complain 98% of paintballers act gangsta', if you are of the 2% that are normal, put this this in your sig. |
Posted By: xerphiz
Date Posted: 18 August 2005 at 10:08pm
| So, what I'm being told is there isn't a real Compressed Air tank for a paintball gun, just Co2 and Nitro? |
Posted By: schnappi
Date Posted: 18 August 2005 at 10:26pm
"Air" is comprised mostly of nitrogen anyway... 
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Posted By: Unicorn
Date Posted: 19 August 2005 at 1:08am
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HPA is High Pressure Air. The regular air you are breathing right now but compressed to between 3000 and 5000 PSI. Preferably it's been filtered to remove moisture. Nitro is short for nitrogen (which is like 70+% of the air we are breathing right now). It is totally stable, even more so than HPA. It's not found very often though, so people usually don't know what it is.
Nitro is not combustible or flammable. brat mann, you heard some story someplace that has no relation to fact. If you shoot anything into a fire, it will cause the fire to spread, a big enough fire and it might look like a small explosion to some. You are thinking about nitrous, or nitrogen oxide which is flamable. Not because of the nitrogen, but the oxygen. The nitrogen is there to slow the reaction down so a car using it to boost it's power doesn't explode. |
Posted By: schnappi
Date Posted: 19 August 2005 at 12:08pm
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Yep. If nitrogen were that flamable, the whole atmosphere would explode if you lit a match!
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Posted By: Justice
Date Posted: 19 August 2005 at 1:23pm
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Nitrogen is more expensive to fill than HPA, right? ------------- 
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Posted By: rossy11223
Date Posted: 19 August 2005 at 3:05pm
| Yes, it is much more expensive. |
Posted By: Nickodemus
Date Posted: 19 August 2005 at 6:14pm
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HPA tanks can be filled off a high output compressor up to the max rating of your tank (4500 psi). You only use the energy to run the high dollar compressor and then everyone has free all day air. Nitrogen must be filled off a tank filled from a supplier and therefore it can be hard to get more then 3000 psi because of the preesure limit of the fill tank. Nitrogen is very stable, oxygen is the nasty stuff. Air as we breath it is about 78% Nitrogen, 20% oxygen, then less thasn 1% each Noble gases, oxygen, and water vapor. ------------- Think and give them all you have from the beginning, and never weaken! |