Hawkeye [F.O.A.D.] wrote:Sounds like you fried the wiring and or the trigger contacts and you have a dead short (which will destroy a lipo). 22 awg is to small for a lipo, I use 16 or 18 awg. you will have to take the gearbox apart and look at the wiring to find out for sure but you need to replace the wiring with something heavier.
MySwan wrote:Hawkeye [F.O.A.D.] wrote:Sounds like you fried the wiring and or the trigger contacts and you have a dead short (which will destroy a lipo). 22 awg is to small for a lipo, I use 16 or 18 awg. you will have to take the gearbox apart and look at the wiring to find out for sure but you need to replace the wiring with something heavier.
That's what I thought. So on finding the right wiring, would any 16 awg wiring for an M4 work? As long as it's good quality of course but I mean in terms of compatibility. I have a Classic Army LWRC M6A2.
spazzticsmurff wrote:if plan on continuing to use lipo batteries i would suggest getting a mosfet like those you can find on nukefet.com
since you need to replace the wiring anyways, imo this would be your best bet.
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Steve wrote:MOSFETs aren't really a necessity when running a LiPo. A MOSFET is just a transistor. It takes a smaller input voltage / current and uses this to control a gate for a larger voltage / current. As long as the motor is rated for the voltage and current that you are using, you can use a lipo without a MOSFET.
Most of the airsoft MOSFET units are really programmable logic controllers. They do anywhere from a few to a lot of things in addition to gating the power. If you are just playing standard outdoor airsoft, they are kind of overkill.
They become really useful when you are doing high rate of fire semiauto shooting (the better units do active braking, so you only fire one shot in semi, and also have sensors to make sure the gun completes one full cycle, so you always get one shot). They also can do "gee-whiz" stuff like give you a programmable burst feature.
However: You are adding complexity to a system. And every time you add complexity, you increase the potential for failure. If you only own one AEG, I'd keep it stock. If you own a bunch, it may be worth adding a MOSFET to one or more of them if the particular unit you are looking at does the stuff you want it to do (not all MOSFET units have the same features!), but accept that you are increasing the likelihood that the AEG will fail.
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