JWinWisconsin
04-28-2007, 09:22 PM
To all Mini Owners....
With the Mini using a Hall effect sensor instead of a regular mechanical switch there seems to be some good and some bad to the Marker's trigger settings. I am hoping that this thread will assist others (and myself) with the finer details of adjusting the Mini trigger.
For those who are unaware of what a Hall effect sensor is or how it works, its a switch activated by a magent. The most common form people will see is the security switch on windows. You see the small plastic parts: a stationary sensor part on the sill (tied into the security system) and a moving part on the window (the magnet). In reality it is still a glorified switch because the magent causes the metal spring inside the plastic sensor to move or switch to the opposite side, like a light switch. When the magnet is out of range, the metal spring goes back to its rest state.
So to the point of this thread...
When adjusting the Mini trigger I found it very difficult to get a 'hair' trigger. There was always slop required on the pull in the beginning and the end of the pull. The best way to describe it is:
> equals pull before activation
~ equals activation
< equals pull required at end of activation
My gun...
>>~<<<
Which is sloppy, but the best I could get. With much tinkering I found that to have the fastest return, I had the trigger set very close to the back of the frame. This resulted in the strongest magnetic push on the trigger. But this was my setup. All of the tweaking that really matters is in the top two screws. Does anyone have any other suggestions or were you able to get it to be literally a hair trigger?
With the Mini using a Hall effect sensor instead of a regular mechanical switch there seems to be some good and some bad to the Marker's trigger settings. I am hoping that this thread will assist others (and myself) with the finer details of adjusting the Mini trigger.
For those who are unaware of what a Hall effect sensor is or how it works, its a switch activated by a magent. The most common form people will see is the security switch on windows. You see the small plastic parts: a stationary sensor part on the sill (tied into the security system) and a moving part on the window (the magnet). In reality it is still a glorified switch because the magent causes the metal spring inside the plastic sensor to move or switch to the opposite side, like a light switch. When the magnet is out of range, the metal spring goes back to its rest state.
So to the point of this thread...
When adjusting the Mini trigger I found it very difficult to get a 'hair' trigger. There was always slop required on the pull in the beginning and the end of the pull. The best way to describe it is:
> equals pull before activation
~ equals activation
< equals pull required at end of activation
My gun...
>>~<<<
Which is sloppy, but the best I could get. With much tinkering I found that to have the fastest return, I had the trigger set very close to the back of the frame. This resulted in the strongest magnetic push on the trigger. But this was my setup. All of the tweaking that really matters is in the top two screws. Does anyone have any other suggestions or were you able to get it to be literally a hair trigger?