Having already tried the charger by itself, and ran into problems with unbalanced recharging of the cells (see earlier post here), this charger and regulator upgrade go hand in hand for our TagParty Business. Difficulties in finding a suitable regulator and an easy integration into the tagger had put this project on the back burner, [...]
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I have now modified over 50 of our TagParty taggers to have both the Magic Drone mod and the new trigger hardware. Information on the two mods can be found: Drone Trigger Mod Magic [...] In an effort to make maintenance easier in the coming year and also to get around the of lack of rumble packs we have made some modifications to the Drone. The video demonstrates a few of the modifications and there are some pictures showing the internal modifications. While the video mainly shows the hit light and [...] I am having problems with the supplier of our shell for the tagger, so in the mean time I am working on an alternative housing. This will require a separate lens assembly which is shown below. Interestingly, and the point of this blog entry, is that the LED is constantly on when the tagger is powered [...] The stand was built out of 1/2″ PVC pipe and fitting. It was painted with Krylon Fusion spray paint. It is designed to be used as a simple stand, or with the tagger fastened in place with a velcro strap, as a flag pole in an Own the [...] The TagParty Tagger Recharge Case (TRC) recharges 8 TagParty Taggers from one 12 volt supply. The TagParty Tagger is a modified LTTO IRT-2x (Drone) designed to have its batteries recharged in the TRC. Tagger Recharge Case (TRC) The red switch connects and disconnect the taggers from the regulated voltage supply, and the green LED shows when you are [...] Supercaps can extend alkaline battery life - Supercapacitors can dramatically extend battery life of today’s consumer goods, argues Mike Collen Today’s consumers take for granted the ability of the electronics industry to squeeze more functions into smaller, more portable devices. Mobile phones are cameras and are now adding flash features; still cameras shoot video; laptop computers can do [...] We are going ahead with the mod, on all TagParty taggers, as it has proved very successful and has eliminated the lock-up failures due to the Drone’s CPU momentarily losing power (battery jiggle). The Magic Drone mod is very simple, but effective. It uses the supercapcitor below: Product Information Mouser Part #: 555-DX-5R5V334U I just did the magic drone mod to 8 new taggers for TagParty testing. If this pans out I will need to modify the [...] Quick and dirty mode with promise. http://share.tagparty.net/shotgun_reflector.html The Ddriag Goach (Red Dragon) got into the action! I think I will sign all my Mods Ddraig Goch especially the new ones that will have some bite. Ddraig Goch was on my mind since Matt had the tattoo [...] |
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