charging

[Slaphappy]

you know im having the some trouble....I havent charged my gun yet(manufacturor charged it) and after 3000-4000 shots w/air and 10000 just w/out air my battery died. I dont understand because it says its a quarter full after 10 min of charging, but after 30 shots it dies, and i turn it off then on and it loads then dies. Is it that low or am i having board problums

[dooksdooks]

do a full charge, then do another full charge. that'll fix all your problems.

[speed123]

yah 2 FULL charges works. dont do short charges.

[SPEED2003]

So how come you have to do 2 full charges? Or do you not have to unless your battery dies?

[Osmoosi]

The full charge is to "run-in" the marker battery. It does _not_ come charged from the factory, there's a small residual charge in the batteries from the manufacturer. It's enough to run the marker for a few cycles but it really ought to be fully charged before using. The battery is a Ni-MH cell, it's capacity will be lower if it's not "run-in" properly.

[BURLEY]

Originally posted by SPEED2003
So how come you have to do 2 full charges? Or do you not have to unless your battery dies?

The indicator on the gun, is not acurate. If you charge it for half an hour, it marks the battrery as full, while it's not even close to 25%. It's just a fancy thing, but useless in fact.
However, if you can only fire your marker 30 times, after you charged it for 10 mins, thats not right either. My local angel tech tells me, that if i charge it for 5 or 10 minutes i shoot be able to get at least 20.000 shots. Perhaps it was because your battery was completely emtpy, but you should keep an eye on it.

BTW do you use intellifeed?