Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-26431461-20160327221902/@comment-27306930-20160329030824

I'm surprised the moderators haven't warned us we're way off topic yet, 301 club and all. Tsk, tsk. But back to your original observation, yes, the circuitry in the RapidStrike increases the voltage to the flywheels when firing to compensate for the negative radial acceleration of the flywheels. In other words, it gives the motors more juice when you pull the trigger because the flywheels slow down when they're flinging yer darts.

Remember that "conservation of energy" thingy in physics ? Neither do I. But both me and Isaac figured out that the kinetic energy stored in the rotating flywheels gets transferred into the acceleration and momentum of your darts, which makes 'em shoot out the front of yer blaster, and causes the flywheel to slow down. Get out your Demolisher, rev it up, and pull the trigger as fast as you can. Flywheels slow down to a crawl, don't they ? Conservation of energy at work my friends.

So the clever and handsome engineers at Hasbro figured out a solution to Mr. Newton's pesky problem. Increase the voltage to the motors when you pull the trigger so that the rate of fire stays more or less the same. There's a little circuit board in the RS that figures it all out.

And the best part is, you can put better batteries in the RS, like a couple or three 14500's, and it'll still do the same thing. Thank you Mr. Newton and Mr. Faraday. My blaster's working better than ever :-)