Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-5276103-20180529061637/@comment-5276103-20180603223953

Elliottw wrote: Rocketplane52 wrote: ... I'll probably keep the stock motors, and just throw in 3 IMRs w a dummy battery and then the Worker shell kit, which I plan to paint along with the blaster shell to look a little more fun and a little less deadly. I won't lie to you Rocket, three IMRs and a dummy will definitely work in a stock Stryfe, or pretty much any flywheeler that takes four AA batteries. And it'll run great ! For a while anyway. But you'll burn those motors out pretty quickly at that voltage.

When you run 6-volt motors at 11.1 volts, you can start to smell the ozone. That's a bad sign. It means there's high temperature arcing going on in the commutator. These ultra inexpensive 130s Hasbro puts in Nerf blasters, with their cheap brushes, were never designed to run at twice the normal voltage. It's like running your car engine way past the red line. You can definitely do it. More than once. But sooner or later, probably sooner, something's gonna break.

If you desire any longevity from your Stryfe, use two IMRs and two dummies. At 7.2 volts, those stock 130s will last a long, long time. The longevity was another concern. Most likely scenario, when I get enough money I'll do what Drac does in his videos and cherry-pick a bunch of parts from different sources, or maybe 3D-print some stuff myself. Looking into maybe a Riot or Snikkas flywhell cage, with some of those high-crush flywheels and then some ridiculous 11.1V brushless motors or something. A full rewire would obviously be optimal in this case, but I'd still go for the IMRs because I don't want to deal with the problems and extra work that comes with a lipo, as great as they may be. The only decision left in this case would be which shell kit to pick... hoping for something that makes it into a full rifle/smg platform because I don't really like how small the Stryfe is in its stock form. Color-matching so I can keep the original paint scheme would be optimal but I don't know exactly what I want to do yet and don't have the money anyway. It'll happen eventually, I hope. :)