Aquired an Imagine (Most of) by trade.

Mimos · 03-28-2006, 02:28 PM

Basically, I have the gun and nothing else. No hopper, tank, extra seals/bolt/etc., no charger, no nothing.

Anyway, I was fooling around with it last night and I was displeased to see that I am unable to switch the firing mode to anything but semi auto.

When I turn the gun on, the bottom-most blue LED lights up, and blinks once for each pull of the trigger. When I press the firing selector button once, a white LED lights up but disappears as soon as the trigger is pulled. If I press and hold on the FSB, the bottom-most blue LED will blink steadily for as long as I have the FSB held down.

In searching the forum, I read that I need to have a bridge between two wires or I need to jurry-rig a piece of tinfoil or a spare electrical-wire on the board. Does anyone have instructions on how to do this? I read all the way back to page 7 but was unable to find anything useful.

I also read that I can go to radioshack and pick up the part that I need; is that true? Or should I order the part from Kingman like someone else mentioned? Would anyone have the address for the department of Kingman that I need to write to? Will they even send me the part because I got the gun by trade?

Anyway, if anyone could help me, that would be grand. I would really like to know how to solve the problem myself, rather than having to write to Kingman and wait for a few days. I'm very handy and competent with electronics so I should have no trouble doing the mod myself if someone can explain it to me.

Thanks in advance,
Mimos.

spyderpilot642 · 03-28-2006, 02:34 PM

ok well i dont really know how to fix it but the same thing happend to me
i just brought it to a local shop and they said something was loose and they knew exactly what it was so i say just bring it to a shop and they will know what to do
they didnt charge me either

gage713 · 03-28-2006, 02:44 PM

im pretty sure the tourney lock is on..there is a little chip inside of th grip frame and if you pull the chip out it wont allow you to change modes so you probley didnt get the chip, but who need full-auto any ways

Steven2k7 · 03-28-2006, 03:04 PM

if its the same as my imagine, theres a jumper on it that locks it. when the jumper is on, you can change fireing mods. take the jumper off and its locked in simi auto mod.

there should be 2 pins sticking up form the chip like this: | | when theres no jumper, they look liek that. the jumper is just a peice of plastic with a wire going through it. you can pick them up at a computer shop for a few cents, of they may just give you one for free.

Mimos · 03-28-2006, 03:10 PM

Cool. Thanks, guys!

Aviig · 03-28-2006, 04:24 PM

Well this may sound stupid (I'm somewhat new to P-Ball

) but just incase you didn't try this I have an E-99 Avant (Which is the same gun in a different body) and I press the fire mode button once to get the white with blue, and press it again to get Green, then red, so try hitting it 2x or maybe more.

Mimos · 03-29-2006, 12:56 PM

Haha, indeed that is stupid. (By your own admission) The first thing I did was press the button multiple times.

(I don't think you are stupid for mentioning it.)

However, last night after I got off of work I went home and began to tinker with the board. My first plan was to loop a small length of a single copper wire taken from a braid of common, speaker wire. That plan was scrapped as it is too difficult trying to wrap a semi-flexible (On that small of a scale) wire around two small prongs. The next idea was to find a speaker wire connection that was small enough to be able to grasp both prongs evenly. I didn't have one. So, I did what any lazy person would do and put a ball of aluminum foil between the prongs and walla! -It works.

I'm going to head up to Radio Shack to pick up the connection proper today.

Now that I have the different fire modes functioning, it leads me to another question:

For those of you that have a Spyder with the e-trigger, and a suitable hopper to force-feed balls into the chamber: How well does the gun perform? Do you chop a lot of balls on the 3 round burst mode? Or how about a small burst on full-auto? (Maybe 5 shots) I'm a little worried that because it is a low-end blow-back marker with no electronics to tell it when it is ok to fire, I'm going to chop a lot of balls- even with a nice hopper. What are your experiences with the e-trigger?

^^BTW, all the internals are stock on my gun.

steelglass · 03-29-2006, 02:44 PM

Well with a force feed hopper you shouldn't really have problems because the stock eframes only shoot 14-15 bps (I forgot which one it was) and an egg or halo b feed well over that. You will have some chops but with a force feed not very many. If you want to eleminate chops get eyes.