Plus, each dart can easily cost 10 cents even if you purchase in bulk. Modern Nerf wars typically use a shared pool of community darts (so there are no arguments about who owns which ones) and the community tends to frown on people who shred them. I wouldn’t personally buy one until this gets figured out.
I don’t know if there’s a defect or if, say, my flywheels were just misaligned at the factory - update, I think that’s the case - but the company says it’s never seen this and will send me another unit. And that’s with AAs, not an upgraded LiPo battery.Įvery one of these darts is getting worn - if not bitten - right near their tips. Almost every dart I’ve fired shows signs of wear, some have missing chunks of foam, and I have five completely busted darts because this blaster yanked off their tips. Heck, I had a hard time measuring dart speed with one of my ballistic chronographs because tiny specks of foam were shooting out the end. I’ve been firing off magazine after magazine in my backyard and a nearby park, and I’ve never seen quite so much foam dust settle in my barrel. For the MK-3, Dart Zone’s using serrated flywheels that appear to be slightly shredding every dart I fire out the end. I’m a little less sure about the health of your darts while using it.
The specially chosen 36,000RPM motors and larger-gauge wire are designed for 12 volts, and they’re LiPo-tested and ready.
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And while Dart Zone creative director Bryan Sturtevant tells me his company isn’t exactly encouraging you to mod this one - “if you put the wrong LiPo in it, you can blow up the blaster” - the company’s also not remotely worried about three-cell battery packs.
Nerf has frowned on modding for years, presumably for safety reasons, and has even sealed its blasters with epoxy from time to time. It’s the easiest mod ever, and it’s completely different from the way Nerf brand owner Hasbro operates.
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There’s roughly 142mm x 61mm x 16mm worth of space for a LiPo, plus a cord channel 50x40mm worth of that space is 25mm deep, if you’ve got a small but thick battery pack. It also spins up notably faster, meaning you don’t need to hold the rev trigger as long before you can blast!
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Swap in a three-cell (3S) 11.1V LiPo, and your darts can instantly go 20 feet per second faster, plus I saw my full auto rate-of-fire jump from three-plus darts per second to four-plus darts per second. Swap in a two-cell (2S) 7.4V LiPo, and you’ll get roughly the same performance while shedding nearly half a pound of weight. A single Philips-head screw is the only thing keeping you from lifting out the entire battery tray - where you’ll find a genuine XT-60 connector to plug in your very own LiPo battery. I can easily hit targets 80 feet away, dart after dart after dart, and blast up to 130 feet away when I angle the MK-3 up into the air.īut wonder of wonders, you don’t need to use AAs at all. That 150 feet-per-second promise is on the money: plug in eight regular AA batteries, and it’s nearly as powerful (yet quieter!) than the LiPo-powered Demolisher I modded a few years back. While Hasbro is trying to sell us on a new rubbery little ball to get any sort of range at all, the second such attempt at new ammo in recent memory, the MK-3 manages to deliver modded-blaster grade performance from the standard long and short darts that the community’s been using for years. And that’s without factoring in the hours you’d spend disassembling, soldering, and figuring out the somewhat tricky wiring for a multi-switch configuration, and the chance you don’t get it right the first time and have to try again. You almost certainly will if you’re trying to make it fire short darts, too, or if you start with a more expensive blaster.
This is maybe the part where you pull me aside and say, “Sean, seriously, $130 for a toy that shoots foam darts?” To which I say: $130 is really not that bad! The most popular official Nerf blaster for modders has long been the Stryfe, a $20-30 blaster that only comes with six darts you shoot one at a time and barely hits half the velocity.Īdd a larger magazine, pair of aftermarket motors, flywheels, a flywheel cage, a LiPo battery, upgraded wiring, and a kit to make it fully automatic like the MK-3, and you could easily cross the $100 mark.
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