tapeworm

[forumsk83r]

hey my neighbor got an impluse yesteday and i heard that tapeworm is an awesome up....a very needy up....i dont really understand what it does and is it necessary...

and overall...does it help performance?

thanks

like this one- http://www.actionvillage.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en_US/-/USD/DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=011-112-0002

[pEnNyWiSdOm225]

I don't know much about how it works, but I do know that it will greatly help your FSDO.

[forumsk83r]

haha and what does FSDO mean?

[impulse-kid138]

fsdo means first shot drop off

[forumsk83r]

what does first shot drop off means....yea im a idiot...

[toothpastedog]

no, a tapeworm will do nothing to get rid of fsdo. a tapeworm only effects how fast the gun can fire and how quick it's ram/hammer/bolt's response time will be.

fsdo=first shot drop off=when you don't shoot your impulse for like 5 minutes, or after you leave it over night, the first shot will have a super low velocity, like 150fps. then after, at most, 5 more shots the gun will fire fine.

What does an LPR do and how does an impulse work? These are two questions I've heard one too many times recently and I would like to answer them now, so no one will have to ask them again.

Okay, what do spyders, angels, bushmaster, vikings, and intimidators have in common? Well, they all operate on the same basic design; a bolt over a hammer that moves forward when the trigger is pulled (from either the force of a ram and solenoid-i'll explain later-or a spring, like on spyder(clones) and opens a valve which sends air to the paintball and out that paintball goes.

A solenoid is what begins the firing process on impulses, if you were an impulse the circuit board would be your brain and the solenoid your heart. When the gun fires, a signal is sent to the solenoid (it is actually called a solenoid valve, but I will just call it a solenoid) and the solenoid opens and sends a burst of air behind the ram which pushes the hammer/bolt (the bolt is connect to the hammer by a bolt pin) forward. Then the solenoid closes and sends a burst of air to the front of the ram sending it shooting backwards and thus moving the hammer/bolt back into "cocked" position. It is a little bit like how a 3-way on an Autococker, but a lot faster and more precise due to it being electronically controlled.

In an impulse, what happens when the trigger is pushed it this:
1) A micro switch is activated which sends an electrical pulse to the circuit board which in turn sends another signal to the solenoid to open/close it's valve.
2) The solenoid valve opens and redirects the air flow to an air cavity behind the ram and the air wants to expand and so it pushes the ram forward. The hammer (the ram is screwed into the ram, so when the ram moves forward, so does the hammer) is connected to the bolt by means of a bolt pin.
3) Then, at exactly the same time since the bolt and hammer are connected (when one moves 1mm, so does the other), as when the bolt is pushing a paintball past the guns’ detents the hammer hits the gun’s main valve, opening it which sends a burst of air out to the paintball threw the and into/out the barrel.
4) Then the solenoid (after a set amount of time, normally around 10 milliseconds depending on what the dwell (dwell=how long the hammer holds the main valve open=how much air is put behind the paintball=more or less fps) is set at, redirects the air flow to an air cavity in front of the ram and the hammer is pull back from the main valve (which closes due to a spring which forces it close) and also pulls the bolt back at the same time which lets another ball fall into the breach ready to be fired.

That is how the impulse works.

Here is what and how a tape worm works. Also I added some information about lprs:

Okay, here we go... a tapeworm is a solenoid restrictor. What it does is that it "restricts" are from being sucked away from the solenoid valve (which is what moves the bolt/hammer and makes the gun fire-the solenoid bolt can only do this with sufficient air pressure). What happens, is that when you pressurize your impulse, air fills up the valve cavity and the solenoid cavity (the valve and the solenoid valve are different-the valve puts air into the bolt and eventually get to a paintball, while the solenoid valve is basically, a separate electronic valve that controls the movement of the hammer/bolt/ram). When the impulse is fired, the valve opens and air flows out of it into the bolt and out behind a paintball. When the valve opens though, it sucks air away and out of the solenoid cavity. What the tapeworm does, for 20$, is it restricts air from leaving the solenoid valve cavity, and thus the valve can't suck air away from the solenoid which in turn uses that air to move the bolt/hammer which is how the gun is fired. Then since no air is being sucked away from the solenoid you can lower your operating pressure, which can help to prevent ball chopping a little as well as helping efficiency a bit to. The main advantage is that you can shoot faster strings of paint w/o any shoot down at all, and you can now, with a tapeworm or other form of solenoid restrictor, dry fire you impulse like you would a normal gun (which you cannot normally do).

read the stickies

[forumsk83r]

ahh thanks, i was lookin at the stickies earlier today and didnt see that, sorry and thanks

[toothpastedog]

my pleasure

[ikey]

god what would we do with TPD. i mnea if he was here i would attempt to type something that long. TPD, you are my finger's savior.

[toothpastedog]

yeh, and thank god i don't have to read YOUR long illedgible posts :P

[ikey]

yeah, i dont really pay much attention to my spelling. but i get hte point across.

[toothpastedog]

:laugh:

[ikey]

see look! i cant even type 2 sentences without misspelling a word.

[Azn_Boy]

its ok and if it wasnt for TPD i wonder wat this forum would be like....:eek:

[forumsk83r]

found out its 30 dollars installed at my local store....nice

thanks for your helps

[toothpastedog]

good luck to ya! :)

[TheSilentOne]

Not sure how you got the idea that a Tape Worm will help minimize FSDO...And yea, its a bad arse trig, sk8...I got mine set to the equivelant of clicking a mouse. They are sekz.

[Azn_Boy]

ull like ur tapeworm and and wil be glad u got it too

[TheSilentOne]

yea, that sums it up. I love it..used to like 2 fingered triggers a lot, but when i got my worm, that all went out the window, now i cant stand them, if i ever use a marker with a 2 finger trigger, i just use the bottom grip with one finger, one fingers are what i prefer anymore...and tapes the best ive ever used. Its easy to adjust and ..its pretty cheap...

[Azn_Boy]

so ur saying a tapeworm made u go to 2 finger trigger to a 1 finger trigger?...i wonder how that happned:eyes:

[TheSilentOne]

im sensing that i have a lack of compensating the irony in that remark... can you explain it, if there is any, cuz...thats pretty much what happen...I always used 2 fingers cuz i never used a "1 finger" trigger, until i got my worm, and ever since then i use on finger, even when I use a "2 finger" trigger...Did that help at all? Because... if it didnt, can you send some of that help my way?

[toothpastedog]

a tapeworm is not a trigger, it is a solenoid optimizer.

a "worm" is not a trigger, in fact, no impulse trigger is called a tapeworm or a worm...

[agentdaffy007]

lmao...
if you read tapeworm out loud quickly, it sounds like trigger! :crazy:

[TheSilentOne]

Oh i see what ur saying, and I know a tapeworm isnt a trigger, but the solenoid, doesnt it control how much air is let in, and if so...therefore, wouldnt it control the pressure of the trigger, maybe not, im not a genius...but I did know that the worm isnt a trigger...and I dont know what ur on, and daff, u must be stoned...thanks for the exp, tooth.

Btw, I have a Blade trigger. :P !!!

[toothpastedog]

you right.... as far as the not a genious thing goes...

an impulse's trigger pull is not in any way effected by the pressure of the gun or solenoid. the trigger pull is only affected by the micro switch and/or a magnet or spring repelling the trigger. read the stickies... cause if you did, you wouldn't have this problem...

...in fact, if you just read my above post about tapeworms and how impulses work, you wouldn't have that problem... thinking and not just being passive are good....

[TheSilentOne]

tooth, lay off please...alls i can do is ask. Been a while since Ive played, as in... months and months, approximately 7 so, im trying to get back into this stuff, and learn new stuff, and remember half the stuff that i used to know, so..please...

(having a bad day)

-Silent

[toothpastedog]

yeh, i can tell. i was a bit strong, and i am sorry :(, but i have been having a bad day too...

glad to see that your want to learn about paintball and impulse and such, but you really should spend more time reading manuals, ready stickies, and researching the stuff you talk about before your talk about. don't take that the wrong way, it is just a piece of advice that will be, if followed, very very helpful to you in your reborn paintball life ;)

[TheSilentOne]

Haha...Gee, thanks...ur such a good guy. I dont, and didnt take that the wrong way..I understand and totally agree with it. My Dad went to Iraq for like 7 months, and we used to pley together every weekend that I wasnt practicing with my team...so it just didnt feel right playing without him, and I couldnt play with my team, because when he went to Iraq, me and my mom and my sisters went to Washington State for those 7 months to stay with relatives...(Virginia to Washington)

-Silent

[toothpastedog]

well, i hope he is doing well there, and comes home safely to his family and friends.