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A5 misfiring, Common problem?

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Topic: A5 misfiring, Common problem?

Posted By: aapdmms
Subject: A5 misfiring, Common problem?
Date Posted: 05 June 2007 at 12:45pm

My A5 is fairly new and has probably had less than 500 balls through it. It seems that when the air or CO2 gets low the gun will shoot one ball and then just shoot air. It will fire again after the feeder is manually advanced. Is it due to the low air or something else? It may do it other times, but I mainly notice it when the air is low. I am new to the sport, so any help or suggestions are appreciated.

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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 05 June 2007 at 1:17pm

Air is too low and needs to be refilled. A 20 oz tank will last you about 1000 shots. The cyclone starts not to work when the air is too low. When the air is low enough the gun might start rapid firing without any balls being fired because there wasn't enough air to push the hammer back all the way to recock the gun.

Posted By: phil_stl
Date Posted: 05 June 2007 at 5:51pm

So to simplify this you can:
A) Suck it up and deal with it
B) Get a bigger tank so it happens less often
C) Get the JCS Jet Click so it never happens again