Pretty sure I just qualified to play on the ton tons

[Trbo323]

Mod85?

No, good guess though

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[The Hobbit]

NopeAnd nope on both brand and model

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Some flavor of tippmann? 68 carbine?

[Trbo323]

Some flavor of tippmann? 68 carbine?

Not a tippmann

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[flyweightnate]

ATS?

[Swedgin!!]

Spyder?

[Trbo323]

Still not even the brand has been guessed correct

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[Jordan]

Can someone explain the reference? I can't figure it out.

[Sdawg]

Les Ton Tons are a French professional team with a rep for shooting hot back in the day.

[pghp8ntballer]

Automag?

[Sdawg]

How well do those chronographs work for paintball?

I'll guess a Brass Eagle rainmaker.

[Daltech]

I got a WDP Angel LED up past 500 once. I’m so lucky I never hit anyone with it before I went to chrono.

[Trbo323]

Can someone explain the reference? I can't figure it out.

Yeah ton tons were known for shooting hot for a while. If I find the video again I'll post it but there was a tourny back in the late 2000s. Back then the refs would often Chrono teams at the start of a match but not between points. Ton tons took advantage of that, after multiple teams complained to the organizers that the ton tons were shooting hot but only after the match started. The refs finally started listening, waited until halfway through a match, a ref came out from behind the start box and snatched a marker right out of the hands of a ton ton player, chronoed it right there and threw a red flag. He went through all 5 markers and if I remember right, 4 were shooting hot. One was shooting 450 and that player was ejected from the game if not the tournament. It was 3 red flags and 1 yellow (I forget what all the numbers were, something like 310 was a minor penalty and 340 was a major) it was to the point that they had to forfeit the next point because the rules say you can't start with only one player which is all they would have had. The next point they could start they only had 2 or 3 players I forget.

Anyway, after that game, the ton tons tried to say they unknowingly had broken o rings in the regs causing the high velocity.

1) 4 out of 5 markers really?
2) 450? If you have been playing for even a year you can tell something is wrong as soon as you pull the trigger

How well do those chronographs work for paintball?

I'll guess a Brass Eagle rainmaker.

Works fairly well, better when outside. As doc pointed out you need to have an incandescent or infrared light for it to see inside well. I use a 9v plug so I don't tear through 9v batteries when I forget to turn it off (learned that the hard way)

Not a brass eagle

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[Trbo323]

I got a WDP Angel LED up past 500 once. I'm so lucky I never hit anyone with it before I went to chrono.

Not Angel

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[DocsMachine]

How well do those chronographs work for paintball?

-The original versions were for firearms, and didn't do well with the much slower paintball. They also look for changes in the light detected by the two upward-facing sensors. They were intended to use outdoors, at a gun range, of course, and would use nice, steady sunlight. 60H flicker from fluorescents and later, LEDs caused issues, so the fix was to use an incandescent light. The company sold a kit that used two of the long single-filament aquarium type bulbs that attached over the shades that go over the sensors, which helped a lot.

I'm told they've upgraded the controller to be less sensitive to 60Hz flicker, and to work better with slow projectiles like paintballs, airsoft and airgun pellets.

The only drawback, in my opinion, is the same as any other non-radar chrono- it's downrange of the muzzle, and so very commonly hit and damaged by projectiles. Not an issue, of course, with the chrono itself- I'm told it's good kit- but rather simply the method of operation.

Doc.

[DocsMachine]

Fastest I've ever personally chronographed was a Tippmann... either Pro-Lite or Carbine, I can't recall, on a siphon tank in the summer. We intentionally "supercharged" it with liquid, but made no other changes- no springs, no cranked adjusters, etc.

The peak shot I think was 385 or thereabouts, and one out of three shots didn't make it out the barrel.

Anecdotally, many years ago I went down to Westworld in Arizona, back when they still used the old movie-set lot. I had a Spartan pump, that I'd carefully set to about 285 up here, and rarely had to chrono. In Az, my first shot over the clock was 340. I had a full spring set, but I finally had to clip the lightest hammer spring in order to get it down to 290.

Doc.