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Old August 18th, 2007, 12:04   #2
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The CA M249 trigger switching design is one of the worse desgined out there. Pull the trigger, the set screw rises and presses on the metal lever, which the end of it is dangerously close to the spinning sector gear. Truly fucking retarded design. Unless it's bent and shaped right, it'll get caught in the gear easy. Active Electronics sells the 'almost' exact same switch but it's under rated and welds the contacts together first burst. I've used the switch levers to rebuild the CA provided one and has worked.

As far as putting a MOSFET in, I'm not sure exactly how it'd go with that design, but I can't see it being much of a problem, but a better and more reliable triggering system is required in that gun, so a MOSFET would be a good start to doing so.

To get an increased rate of fire over the 10% the MOSFET provides, upgrade all plugs to Deans connectors, they have a lower resistance than the Tamiya connectors, so your 10% increase might go to 15-20%.
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