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Model98
03-18-2001, 06:24 AM
Is it possible to upgrade a 9v revvy to a 12v?

I found a site:

http://www.dropzonepaintball.com/brasseagle/html/view_loader_parts.html

Which has the 12v prop and the 12v sunboard. So I was wondering if it would be feasible to just upgrade the parts instead of buying a whole new 12v revvy.

Phaelon Veritas
03-18-2001, 06:58 AM
if I am not mistaken they also have different motors... and if you just add voltage and the new board you may burn out the 9v motor depending on how the 12v is wired sometimes the wire the batteries is series and sometimes in parallel if you are familiar with wiring and how wiring affects amperage and voltage this will be easy to understand you have to be able to see a 12v revvys innards to be able to tell I mean if you wire the battery positive to positive negative to negative you get 9v at 12 amps if you wire the battery in series positive to neg to positive to neg you get 18v at 6 amps here is a small diagram...
http://www.pbreview.com/fpics/Phaelon Veritas031901150334wiring.gif
NOTE: 18v can be regulated by resistors on the board of the revvy down to 12v (which from what I understand was exactely what they did because 18 volts wore out the 12v motor too fast , which is what will happen if you run 12v to a 9v motor)

In short a 9v revvy should be able to run a 4 blade prop as well as a 12v provided the shaft on the motor is the same however no garuntees!

[Edited by Phaelon Veritas on 03-19-2001 at 03:04 PM]

Phaelon Veritas
03-18-2001, 07:02 AM
I forgot to mention that the reason it is important to know what a 12v looks like is cause you don't know how they derived their 12v do they just ca.ll it a 12v cause the earlier models used 12v motors or is it actually using 18v directly into the board and regulated down or does it just use 2 9v batteries and actually run at the same 9v just at a higher amperage??? I dunno I'd have to see one