Thread: Trigger arcing?
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Old March 19th, 2012, 21:44   #12
vink
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Originally Posted by SMIC4 View Post
Take the gun apart and sand off the carbon if you're looking for a short term solution

Problem with Lipos and arcing is not carbon but electrical corrosion. The arcs eat away at the metal contacts much in a way a welder melts metal. The contacts gets shorter and shorter with each arc. You'll get a season out of the contacts before you need to replace it. Its usually the contact thats on the right of the trigger that corrodes. You only need a Mosfet if you want to make your gun reliable. What I did was to add mass to the contact by adding solder, this allows the contacts to absorb the heat of the arc better and almost stops the corrosion.
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