e-grip
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Topic: e-grip
Posted By: pwned!!!
Subject: e-grip
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 3:45pm
| my friend said that if i get an e-grip for my a-5 ill just be chopping loads of paintballs, is this true? and is it worth buying an e-grip? |
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Posted By: JcKa
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 3:51pm
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No you won't be choppin 'balls. The egrip is capped at 15 semi, and the cyclone is capped at 17 and with QEV at 22, which is debatable. You'll be fine, and with a JCS, you'll be walking that dog in no time.
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Posted By: Monkey Dust
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 3:53pm
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Full auto egrip + a5 = choppd balls.
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Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 3:55pm
| Have an E-grip on mine... not one chopped ball to date. |
Posted By: JcKa
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 4:21pm
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Umm, it doesn't = chopped balls, it actually = two perfectly designed systems to work efficiently with each other. Why do you think they sell egrips for A-5s? Do you not think that they included all those modes just so people could make paint smoothies? They're tested and proven to work fine together.
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Posted By: Monkey Dust
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 4:25pm
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But the thing is they don't work perfectly together at all. I have one I have seen it happen.
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Posted By: JcKa
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 4:35pm
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what?
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Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 4:40pm
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My buddy has been shooting his E-5 on full auto for three years, and only chops when the paint is bad. Otherwise, zero chops at 15 bps. ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: SuzukiRider987
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 4:42pm
If you ensist that they chop balls, explain to me why. Variables aside (such as bad paint, unproper setup, etc.). ------------- http://www.macdev.net - MacDev Militia http://www.alienpb.com - Alien - Because winning is more fun. |
Monkey Dust wrote:Posted By: Monkey Dust
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 4:43pm
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Every time i try and shoot my a5 on full auto it burst abou 50% of the balls. And its not the paint or the barrel. Ah well. ------------- a new breed of dracula!!!!!! |
Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 4:54pm
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Do you have both Cyclone fixes, and a fresh ratchet? ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: EriK6
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 5:01pm
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I never chopped a single ball with my E-Grip.. Another thing, the cyclone feeder is there to keep up with the speed. ------------- I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. 
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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 5:05pm
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Your friend is the sux0rs. I'm living proof that it works. ------------- A-5 E-Grip JCS Dual Trigger DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted Optional setup: R/T Dead on Blade trigger |
Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 6:54pm
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It will be fine. ------------- 
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Posted By: Torquestar
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 8:31pm
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That's wierd. I got a brand spankin new A-5 for Christmas. Then I went nuts (wife would say "stupid"), and added an E-Grip, WAS board, QEV, and 14" GTA Werks barrel. I then went out and got a 20oz CO2 tank (no anti-siphon), and later on added a male Palmer stab. If I set the E-grip on auto, at anything above 10 bps RoF, I get balls blowing up and splattering the inside of the cyclone. I think the 15-17bps setting should have been labeled "puree". This is using RPS All-Star paint, which as far as I know, is considered pretty good. Temps during testing were around 50 or so, and the palmer gauge read 625 PSI. I have yet to be able to fire in full auto and not have the A-5 turn into a blender. :( From everything I've read up to this point, it seems that maybe HPA is the only way I can do this. Are those that are saying it works using CO2? |
Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 9:04pm
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The combination of the CO2 and the low temperature may have done you in. Paint gets brittle in low temperature, and the Cyclone isn't gentle on the paint. CO2 at high ROF spits liquid, and even the Stab can't stop it completely. The cold aggravates this further. I have seen plenty of A-5s (including mine) turn into blenders at those temperatures. Try an indoor range if you can, or wait for the weather to change, or get Polar Ice. ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: FyreFly
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 11:38pm
The cyclone will EASILY be able to keep up with the E-Grip. Unless of course you have the WAS board and crank up the max bps. I believe that in all the years of shooting my A-5 with an RT and with an E-Grip, that I have never chopped a single paintball. That's not to say I haven't had balls break in my barrel or in the cyclone, but that's a different thing entirely. ------------- 
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Posted By: darkmaster
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 11:49pm
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I play in canada and it is cold a lot of the times i play and i use co2 and hpa, My egrip works well with the a-5, unless it gets really cold then it is not chopping the balls are breaking in the barrel. my Egrip+a5= Bad news for foes I just noticed that every thread that Monkey Dust posts in turns into a fight. Let me guess Monkey Dust, your kindergarden report card read "Doesnt play well with others", am i right? "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak out and remove all doubt" Abraham Lincoln ------------- Dopa mi la tempesta (After me, The storm) |
Posted By: JcKa
Date Posted: 31 January 2006 at 3:34pm
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Someone finally said it, yesterday he had 250 posts, and now he has 312, all crud.
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Posted By: hognutz
Date Posted: 31 January 2006 at 7:08pm
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I have only shot 6 cases through my a-5 but I have not chopped 1 ball. I am thinking someone does not know the difference between chopped ball and barrel break or something. how are you going to chop a ball if the cyclone feed is working properly. I think something is wrong with the feeder. if you are breaking 50% of the balls at full auto without some kind of other mod something is wrong with the marker becasue if you read this thread you are the minority so to speek. is the e-grip worth it? I am not sure since you already have the response. it does give you options that the RT does not have. semi, turbo, 3round, full auto. you have a 9v battery though that could go dead on you so you always have to make sure you have a spare. I ususally play in turbo as I don't like wasting paint. I bought the gun off ebay with the egrip on it. If I were buying I don't know which one I would go with. there is something nice about have a fully mechnical marker but on the flip side the "sweet spot" is not as nice IMO as the selectability of the e-grip. |