CO2, HPA, HYDROGEN??!!?!
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Topic: CO2, HPA, HYDROGEN??!!?!
Posted By: customproshoot
Subject: CO2, HPA, HYDROGEN??!!?!
Date Posted: 03 December 2007 at 6:50pm
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hellllo fellow paintball players. im pretty new into the sport and ive got a question involving the gasses used to propell the paint. i own a custom pro w/act. i use my good ol' 20oz co2 tank. serves me well i suppose. BUTTT i live in ontario, canada. and guess what its COLD SEASON!! we all know co2 freezes in the cold. soooo whats best to change to?? hydrogen, or air? whats the diffrence between the two?? do i need a conversion kit of some sort? or do i take said air tank, or hydrogen tank, and just plug her right in? i searched the fourm for a bit and couldnt find exatley what i needed to know.. PLEASE HELP! THANKS!!!
TIPPMANNS RULE!!!!!!!!! ------------- eat it whore! |
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Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 03 December 2007 at 6:57pm
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In all this time, I have never seen someone mention Hydrogen as a paintball propellant. That's because of the low potential energy, and, you know, the fact that it is explosive. Hindenburg and all that. Air/Nitrogen tanks are the same thing, and in effect the gasses in them do the same thing. Get a high pressure output (800-900 psi output) and just screw it in. |
Posted By: customproshoot
Date Posted: 03 December 2007 at 7:02pm
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HAHAHA, i TOTALLY said hydrogen. haha, sorry i was on a bit of a rant. just kinda slipped out and i kept using it. ya. i ment nitrogen. my bad haha. you may shoot me for that.
while were on the topic of propellents, i love tippmans propane powered pump gun, its **edited**EN!! 50,000 shots? wow. does anybody know if the propane is ignigted within the gun?!! how does that work?? ------------- eat it whore! |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 03 December 2007 at 7:18pm
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Please watch your language.
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 03 December 2007 at 7:21pm
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Yep it is. There is a 9v battery that works like a sparkplug in a engine to ignite the propane. ------------- 
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customproshoot wrote:Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 03 December 2007 at 9:48pm
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Posted By: kurieitaa
Date Posted: 03 December 2007 at 11:34pm
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Lol, yep in canada you can expect to have all 4 seasons in one week. oh fyi you might want to change your sig. Yep HPA is the best thing you can go, Co2 is fun but a lil effie when it come to weather. ------------- 
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Posted By: jordanpischke
Date Posted: 04 December 2007 at 12:23am
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Ya your best way to paintball in canada is to upgrade from c02, but if you want to stick with c02 an expansion chamber will help it for not freezing. ------------- 
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 04 December 2007 at 11:43am
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Go southern ontario!
We get like 10 days of snow in a full year. I was walking around in a t-shirt last week, one day later, there was 6" of snow outside. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: jordanpischke
Date Posted: 04 December 2007 at 6:01pm
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Lucky bugger it's minus 20 here right now. -------------
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Posted By: customproshoot
Date Posted: 04 December 2007 at 8:02pm
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i learned the cold in the c02 the hard way. mighty disapointed too. my buddy made an awesome snow course with sweet bunkers and barrells everywhere, even an old car. sure enough, the game lasted 8 min.. than again, i JUST started then, and only had a brass eagle talon with 12 gram cartchrage oh well. i love my new tippy. ------------- eat it whore! |
Posted By: customproshoot
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 6:40pm
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is an expansion chamber nessisary if i switch to HPA? will it offer anything for me? ------------- eat it whore! |
Posted By: mamasboi
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 6:53pm
| an x-chamber wont really do anything with air |
Posted By: customproshoot
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 8:51pm
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would it hurt to have? what if i wanted to switch from co2 to hpa every now and again? ------------- eat it whore! |
Posted By: mamasboi
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 9:03pm
| well yes i wouldnt hurt but with hpa its basicly useless |
Posted By: customproshoot
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 9:13pm
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thanks for the help man, im sure ill have more questions later haha ------------- eat it whore! |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 08 December 2007 at 10:45pm
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Hey man. Glad you're excited about paintball, but I've got some tips for ya. First off, you need to watch your language here, inlcuding your sig. A filtered swear is still a swear, and the mods will get you for that. Also, this is a forum, meaning you have all the time in the world to type a response. Spelling and grammar go a long way here. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 9:48am
| expansion chambers can actually be bad with air... sometimes they can just slow down the flow of air to the gun. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 20 December 2007 at 3:37pm
PCF is correct; although, this usually isn't a problem until you attempt higher rates of fire. (e-grip or response trigger.) ------------- 
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Posted By: a5Tpp789
Date Posted: 24 December 2007 at 3:13pm
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if you want to fork out a few hundred get a scuba tank and an hpa tank pays off sooner than you would think -------------  if you put 500 dollars into an A5 it is still an A5
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Posted By: Tippmann_playa
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 5:49am
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It's Canada were cold lol ------------- Tippmann A-5 APE Rampage 68/3000(remote) Collapsible Carbine Stock JCS Double Finger Flatline w/ Battle Shroud 14' Progressive Rifled Squeeshies Lightning Rod Vortex Mod Sly Profit EMRD |
Posted By: Ilford Rule
Date Posted: 06 January 2008 at 1:58pm
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carl, your from Canada? Whereabouts? But yep, another Canadian paintballer here (toronto) who got snowed out this season  . I'm talking about that one storm a few weeks ago up from Texas. Now that I can't get up to the field though, the weather is fine for paintball. Figures eh?But next weekend... I'm pretty excited, this is my first winter outdoors. The past 4 years have been indoor paintball winters, which I really don't like. ------------- CPro (w/ polished internals) 14" Bigshot BT SBS Various Rails NcSTAR D4B Macro AA 68/45 
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