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Originally Posted by m102404
1. When it's hot your motor is not providing enough force to crank your mechbox. Either because there's something less than optimal in your setup, your motor is dying/not scaled to your setup, etc...
2. Your battery cannot sustain the power required to force it's way through a cycle. Most any topped off battery can crank a couple of shots...but when after it's dumped a bit of power then you see it's behaviour.
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Interesting ideas.
I wonder where the heat is causing the power drop though, since the Curie temperature for rare earth magnets is extraordinarily high (even neo magnets for example, which have among the lowest Curie temperature, don't start to lose magnetism until they're between 300-400 Celcius). For airsoft applications, these would be very high temperatures. Do you think it's in the wiring somewhere maybe?
Also, I like theory #2, mainly because I've seen so many weak-sauce batteries out there. One way to be sure is get a nice big R/C battery with a high C value, say, 7.4V 5000mAh and 40C, and hook it up to this gun. The problem though, is that it might mask another issue by powering through whatever real problem lies beneath.
edit: Just noticed you suggested the same thing. Shame on me for not reading your whole reply.