Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20180828034129

I've been meaning to revisit the Elite HyperFire ever since I got my own chronograph. And tonight for ten minutes it was just me, my HyperFire, and an X3200 in the  ̶b̶a̶s̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ lab.

So here's the thing with the E-Hyperfire, it's not consistent. It starts out strong, but the longer you hold down the trigger, the more it bogs down, and the worse it performs. Both the ROF and FPS drop considerably. Tonight I was testing with two freshly charged IMRs plus two dummy cells, and genuine Nerf Elites.

A single shot or two clocks in at 70 FPS (no surprise there) and somewhere around 8 darts per second. Full disclosure: the Xcortech only starts recording Darts Per Second after the ninth or tenth dart. So measuring the rate of fire in a two or three dart burst isn't possible with this chrono.

But after about the tenth dart, the performance really starts to tank. The velocity drops to 50 FPS, and the ROF drops to 6.5 darts per second. As long as the battery holds out, it will maintain that rate of fire until the drum is empty.

Originally, I had calculated the IMR HyperFire fired about 11 darts per second. But obviously that didn't take into consideration the quickly changing performance curve over a relatively short period of time. Just a few seconds in fact. So 11 DPS is obviously wrong. God bless technology !

None of this changes the fact that the E-HyperFire is a really decent blaster. It's way faster than most stock Elite blasters. It's extremely comfy. It comes with a beautiful CS-25 drum. And it totally outclasses most N-Strike blasters. Just don't go head to head with an 11 DPS Auto-Stryfe. It won't end well. 