ION T-Boarded Angel
Marker
...Price:Not for sale
I picked up an Angel a little while back for next to nothing because it's Angel Air tank was out of Hydro
and the control board was fried. This was the first weekend I had time to mess with it. I'm not going to
mess with the re-hydro right now, but I did want to get the marker working again. So, after opening the grip and
looking at how the marker worked, I decided I could mod an ION T-board to run the marker. Although this is not a standard
ION T-board, I did have to lower the dwell in the programming and re-flash.
Here is the grip of the Angel with the control board removed. The Angel is an old one, but it doesn't leak and
they are good quality from what I've heard. I've already stick the Dye Membrane on the back of the grip.
Since the trigger switch is mounted directly on the stock control board, I couldn't use it. So I used an old piece of circuit board
and cut it to the same shape as the stock board and soldered a 50g switch to is. I then soldered two wires with a connector in the
end to plug into the ION T-Board.
Next came the modification to the ION T-Board. I removed the large CAP (EP valves don't need it), solenoid, and the eye connector. ( I removed the eye connnector
because the Angel doesn't have eyes and to allow a better fit of the battery) Then I soldered on the connectors for the EP valve,
the trigger switch and plugged in a membrane adapter
Here you can see the new trigger switch board installed in the Angel grip. It took a while to get the trigger to make the
correct contact with the switch, but I eventually got it.
Now I've installed the ION T_Board into the grip and made all the connections.
And here is the battery installed and the board powered up. The nice thing about this setup is that you can install the battery
flat. So when you put the grip covers on, they don't bulge because of the battery. And the LED shines though the button holes
so you can see what mode you are in and change the settings with no problem.
Finally, here it is. I haven't had the chance to test it on the field, but in my garage it fires quite nicely and easily hits
310 FPS. I just need to adjust the dwell to get to 280 and be ready to play.
I'll post a video at some point. But, on to the next project.
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