CAN Stock CA M15 handle a?

[KraziAzn]

Stright out of the box...can a CA handle 9.6 3300mah? without blowing the fuse?

[Greylocks]

Check your manual. If your gun, from any manufacturer, is designed by the engineers to use 8.4 volts, then your choice is obvious.

If you add more voltage, you then choose to add more wear and tear to the internal parts.

[Gryphon]

It can handle it but like Greylocks says, you'll be wearing things down fast and you chance stripping the piston. I had to replace a CA249 piston after someone used a 9.6V 4200 mAh on it and it stripped. I've seen CA M15A2s handle a 9.6V 1200 mAh but with the higher discharge capacity of a 3300 mAh Sub C cell you'll get an even faster rate of fire. An 8.4V should be more than enough. FWIW, I run mine on a 7.2V and get close to 900 RPM.

You won't blow the fuse with a higher voltage battery because the fuses are rated for 12 volts. It's the amp draw that kills fuses and the higher your voltage, the more efficient your motor will be and the LESS amperage you will draw.

[k2x5]

Not that I'm saying to try it or anything...

But the manual for my CA M15A4 says to put a 12V battery in it... And then it mentions that 10.8, 9.6, 8.4 and 7.2 can be used also...

[Gryphon]

I know, that baffles me. I can't imagine what kind of piston-stripping minigun wannabe a gun would become with a stock spring and a 12V battery. You're better off dumping bags of BBs in front of an air compressor at that point.

[Greylocks]

I think the problem here, like most times, is people who are totally unfamiliar with airsoft who start to imagine solutions to problems that dont exist.

For a LOT of guns, more is not better. Sometimes it's far worse.

[manchovie]

every piston has its life span. putting a larger battery wont change the life span, but you may approach the limit quicker just from cycling the gun more. i say go for it, i love high amperage 9.6's they breathe new life into your gun.

[k2x5]

Originally Posted by manchovie

...i say go for it, i love high amperage 9.6's they breathe new life into your gun.

lol. and they bring in more business?

[Gryphon]

Originally Posted by manchovie

every piston has its life span. putting a larger battery wont change the life span, but you may approach the limit quicker just from cycling the gun more.

Uh, no. If your spring is too light to fully return the piston to battery before the sector gear begins making its next revolution, the teeth of the sector gear will not only be engaging the piston teeth somewhere at its midpoint it will be fighting the return force of the spring. The result is a stripped piston. Ask PoFF about that one.