addon board for SW-computer

[Corpo]

i just had a kinda idea... you know what would be a cool addon board? a kinda shot odometer. resetable, but only if you send it the reset command. i'd like to know how many shots i fired for sure. lol if it could tell somehow if a bb was fired or if it was dry fired that would be a bonus.

..just throwing it out there.

[Drake]

It only knows how many times the gearbox cycles, not whether or not a BB was actually present. For that, you'd need one of the units with a sensor in the hopup, which is to stop the gun from shooting when there aren't any BBs left (which technically means you'd never be dry firing in the first place).

[Corpo]

for that to work i think you'd get at least one dry fire off..

i've been out of the community for a little while (winter)

is there a company that makes a hopup with a sensor in it?

but like i said. if it could tell if it was a dry fire, that would be a bonus. with whichever sensor it uses.

[Drake]

I don't remember whom exactly, but I remember reading (probably on airsoft mechanics) someone was modding a hopup unit with a sensor in it, and the FET was cutting out if/when there wasn't a BB loaded.

The idea is, of course, to have the gun not fire when it's out of ammo.

Check out airsoftmechanics.com, you can probably find some interesting stuff. I haven't been staying on top of this myself.

[ColtFarmer]

What if its just an IR sensor similar to the TM Tracer unit, and instead of lighting up an LED it counted BBs passing?

[kalnaren]

Karma is working on an interesting little shot meter right now. He's taking pictures and he'll post up a nice long thing when he gets it finished.