Valken Battery Powered Marker

[TKcustoms]

Anyone else super skeptical of this thing? I'm curious to see the internals because the only ideas i have is something similar to slingshots, the airowgun, and the slug's caliburn for nerf. All of those are either huge or impractical to make electrically driven.

[Brokeass_baller]

I honestly think paintball is fine the way it is. I can't see this thing being beneficial in anyway to the recreational game.

[flyweightnate]

For outlaw as kids, not having to deal with air fills would be awesome. I remember charging airsoft packs at home was easy, but getting a CO2 fill was a 25 minute one way drive - not my parents' favorite.

I'd expect a small compressor filling a reservoir, not a sector gear slinging a piston. A large reservoir at 35psi (like a tire) would be plenty, so we know the tech exists.

[maggot]

I'm more interested in the hopper!

[SteelJester]

Maybe I'm imagining this, but I seem to remember a battery powered paintball marker from the mid-late 2000s that had a sort of dual wheel pitching machine style system in it. It had two soft-ish wheels that would fling the paintball instead of being air driven. I swear there was a video of it, or maybe just mock-ups...I don't know.

Anyone else remember that?

Anyway, I just don't see how this will improve the industry in any way. As a source of innovation it is great, but I think the tech would need to come a long way for this to be practical for anyone that plays on a serious level.

[Toestr]

Maybe I'm imagining this, but I seem to remember a battery powered paintball marker from the mid-late 2000s that had a sort of dual wheel pitching machine style system in it. It had two soft-ish wheels that would fling the paintball instead of being air driven. I swear there was a video of it, or maybe just mock-ups...I don't know.

Anyone else remember that?

Anyway, I just don't see how this will improve the industry in any way. As a source of innovation it is great, but I think the tech would need to come a long way for this to be practical for anyone that plays on a serious level.

You're either thinking Hotwheels or Nerf. I don't think there were ever any paintball guns with flywheels.

[Magmoormaster]

For outlaw as kids, not having to deal with air fills would be awesome. I remember charging airsoft packs at home was easy, but getting a CO2 fill was a 25 minute one way drive - not my parents' favorite.

Precisely this. Getting tanks filled can be a hassle when you're young, or when you live far away from a field or shop. Getting rid of the tank would be a huge stepchange in paintball technology. If they can pull it off, I think it would be the biggest thing since the original shocker.

[Brokeass_baller]

If it shoots FSR and is moderately quiet, it might be worth it. But otherwise, I'm unenthusiastic. Especially since I greatly dislike .50cal for anything but pistols. It's a great pistol round. But I'm a .68cal truist until I die.

[SteelJester]

You're either thinking Hotwheels or Nerf. I don't think there were ever any paintball guns with flywheels.

It was definitely paintball...but coulda been a fever dream it was so long ago.

A few kids will do that to a man's brain.

[Brokeass_baller]

Maybe I'm imagining this, but I seem to remember a battery powered paintball marker from the mid-late 2000s that had a sort of dual wheel pitching machine style system in it. It had two soft-ish wheels that would fling the paintball instead of being air driven. I swear there was a video of it, or maybe just mock-ups...I don't know.

Anyone else remember that?

Anyway, I just don't see how this will improve the industry in any way. As a source of innovation it is great, but I think the tech would need to come a long way for this to be practical for anyone that plays on a serious level.

There was this thing. Not sure how it worked, though.

https://madpaintballer.com/nps_evolt.php

[MrBarraclough]

The E-volt wasn't flywheel driven, though. The motor pulled back a piston against spring tension and then released it, the piston slamming forward and generating a blast of pressurized air. ZDSPB.com has an animation of how the mechanism worked, at least conceptually.

[fullofpaint]

Gino was NPS and now Valken but KEE kept all of NPS's IP including the E-volt AFAIK. So GI/Kore now owns that.

[Brokeass_baller]

MrBarraclough, thanks for that. I was unsure how it actually worked.

[rawbutter]

For outlaw as kids, not having to deal with air fills would be awesome. I remember charging airsoft packs at home was easy, but getting a CO2 fill was a 25 minute one way drive - not my parents' favorite.

Precisely this. Getting tanks filled can be a hassle when you're young, or when you live far away from a field or shop. Getting rid of the tank would be a huge stepchange in paintball technology.

Ditto. Paintball is incredibly location dependent. If you aren't near a field, getting air fills is a huge pain. If I didn't live 10 minutes away from a scuba shop where I can get a big tank filled for $10, I'm not sure I would still be playing. The nearest field to me is over an hour away. If I played at all, I would probably only go once or twice a year. So if there was a product that can shoot paintballs without having to go for air fills, that widens the market considerably.

Not saying I would get one, personally. But I can see why Valken would invest in something like this.