Predator board issue

[boarder2k7]

I recently acquired a Predator board, and it seems to have excessively high current draw. It drained a 9v battery overnight, and I measured it's standby current at 20 mA, which jumps to 50 mA when it is on. This will suck a new 9v flat in 24 hours, and only yield 12 hours of on time.

This can't be right can it?

[Roger7pball]

I believe it, my old Lucky board or Virtue boards used to suck down the battery until I added a switch to the back-plate. I've found that any of my boards with an on-board power button suck on batteries. With an added switch to disconnect the battery when not in use is the way to go. Not sure on average current draw of these boards - I can check for you though. I have a virtue, zeroX, and enoch somewhere around here.

[punkncat]

If you can find one, and have eyes, the Virtue board is totally the way to go for an Angel. Some of the Lucky boards have a "spider chip" that can be removed and swapped out with either the Dye or Ego Virtue redefined chip, which tend to all be easier to find.
If you don't have eyes an Enoch board works well but it's eye logic is tragically flawed.

If you are into a little modding and can still locate one the PM5 board is a superb and inexpensive choice as well.

[Roger7pball]

It's funny you mention the enoch eye logic...I was doing some high bps testing recently and even with a high eye-debounce she was chopping. Was kind of frustrating. I'll have to give it a go with my virtue.

[punkncat]

I helped with doing troubleshoot on that with the designer, mostly in that I was the one using paint and reporting back as he made small changes to the code and we would try again. My belief is that the logic in the board is just not quite fast enough to do control and doing the actual verification that the eyes are or are not "tripped".
As far as adjustability and fit, along with looks it is IMO a VERY good board for anything blind. Your best bet is to set the marker on a ROF cap that works with the hopper choice in the way we used to have to.

[Roger7pball]

I liked that it can display calculated max rate of fire as well as actual max rate of fire. Also how many shots the eyes canceled out since no ball was seen.

I’ve proven pneumatics past 30 balls per second and modified my rotor to feed balls real quick. Just wanted to see what rate that was. Maybe I’ll get some time to mess around with it again soon.