Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-38362264-20190311183251/@comment-27306930-20190316001519

Okay, I'm not in Australia, so I can't get my hands on attenuated blasters to verify any of this firsthand. But apparently there may be several different things going on with Australian flywheel blasters.

Some Aussie blasters appear to be using a variant of the no-name 130 motors Hasbro uses in most flywheel blasters. Apparently the RPMs are a little lower which reduces the power and range. But without actually measuring the RPMs it's going to be difficult to tell since there aren't any markings on these motors.

There are also articles online talking about using "diodes" to add additional resistance to the motor circuit. That's not exactly how diodes work, so I think they're confused about resistors and diodes. Other articles mention the "resistors" that are soldered onto the motor terminals in the fywheel cage. But those are chokes, not resistors. They reduce electrical noise, and they don't really add resistance.

I have suspected that if Hasbro was adding resistors to gray trigger blasters, they would incorporate them into the Thermistor circuit. It would be super simple. That way, the overall manufacturing process would remain identical.

If one of you guys could post a high-res pic of your gray trigger flywheel internals, I might be able to figure it out.