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Tiny-Con : A scaled down Hy-Con wheels and Ultra* cage based rapidstrike setup with groove fillers by mbregg
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Last crawled date: 4 years, 1 month ago
Edit: All this time I accidentally only had gcode for the multistar wheels. Should be fixed now.
The cage is the RapidStrike cage from UltraSonic2, but with two major changes.
The first is it does NOT use the normal ultracage wheels, it uses a completely different set of wheels which are essentially a scaled down version of the Hy-Con wheels. Credit for the idea of small, Hy-Conesque wheels which can fit in the ultracage goes to torukmakto4, as well as the basic profile of these wheels, as they are modeled to be smaller versions of his Hy-Con wheels.
The second major change is the addition of groove fillers to eliminate jams. The addition of the groove fillers made this cage the work horse I wanted. Reliability wise I've had no issues since adding them, and have taken my SpideyStrike with these wheels to two HvZ events so far.
With Accufakes, I got 158-177 FPS, with an average in the upper 160s.
This is with wheels spinning at 37K, which I have not checked is super critical.
Performance wise about the same as 8.7mm normal ultra wheels.
However, as the actual Hy-Con cage is gentler on darts, I would expect this one to be as well, but this is untested. I no longer have green accufakes that provided an easy test of this. (My 8.7mm ultrastrike would decap the majority those as they left the cage, where as the Hy-Con rig I built would fire a fair amount of them successfully.).
Groove Fillers
The big change this cage has is the large groove fillers.
With these groove fillers, jams such as https://i.imgur.com/xTrK5uj.jpg should not happen.
In fact, even with just one wheel spinning, I have fed dozens of darts through with no jamming of any sort!
The cage is the RapidStrike cage from UltraSonic2, but with two major changes.
The first is it does NOT use the normal ultracage wheels, it uses a completely different set of wheels which are essentially a scaled down version of the Hy-Con wheels. Credit for the idea of small, Hy-Conesque wheels which can fit in the ultracage goes to torukmakto4, as well as the basic profile of these wheels, as they are modeled to be smaller versions of his Hy-Con wheels.
The second major change is the addition of groove fillers to eliminate jams. The addition of the groove fillers made this cage the work horse I wanted. Reliability wise I've had no issues since adding them, and have taken my SpideyStrike with these wheels to two HvZ events so far.
With Accufakes, I got 158-177 FPS, with an average in the upper 160s.
This is with wheels spinning at 37K, which I have not checked is super critical.
Performance wise about the same as 8.7mm normal ultra wheels.
However, as the actual Hy-Con cage is gentler on darts, I would expect this one to be as well, but this is untested. I no longer have green accufakes that provided an easy test of this. (My 8.7mm ultrastrike would decap the majority those as they left the cage, where as the Hy-Con rig I built would fire a fair amount of them successfully.).
Groove Fillers
The big change this cage has is the large groove fillers.
With these groove fillers, jams such as https://i.imgur.com/xTrK5uj.jpg should not happen.
In fact, even with just one wheel spinning, I have fed dozens of darts through with no jamming of any sort!