{"id":770,"date":"2010-01-03T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T02:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2010-01-03T18:55:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T02:55:55","slug":"gunsmithing-with-a-voltmeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/gunsmithing-with-a-voltmeter\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunsmithing with a voltmeter"},"content":{"rendered":"

For weeks I have heard, \u201cYou need to buy me a new battery.\u201d Eric has wanted a new battery for his M-4 Airsoft gun. He has some friends that have a little group that have airsoft combat. He cannot miss out on the action and he absolutely needs a new battery, at least in his eyes.<\/p>\n

Today he tells me his battery is completely dead. I will not work at all. He has charged is for three days and it does not even work. I checked the battery and there was voltage. Voltage and not working, we must dig a little deeper. My first thought is to check voltage at the trigger and or motor. Eric started to disassemble his M-4. It looked like a fun project, so I decided to help. There were times that we did research on YouTube to determine the method of disassembly. I guess if it is a product that youth use, you can find something on YouTube. After disassembly, we could not find voltage anywhere.<\/p>\n

I took a look at the basic layout and followed the path of the wires from the battery to the fuse holder \u2013 fuse holder \u2013 could it just be a fuse? Eric opened it up and I took a good look and exclaimed to Eric that he had a blow fuse. He asked, how I could tell. I replied, \u201cIf you look closely, It is broken; there is a gap in the middle. Eric asked if I had one. I walked over to the bin containers that were my fathers and before that my grandfathers, and there was a bin labeled Fuses. There happened to be one 20 amp fuse. Once the fuse was replaced, things started working.<\/p>\n

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Following the electron path and the old bin of fuses<\/p><\/div>\n

We had a good time working together. It was a better use of time rather than listening to \u201cYou need to buy me a new battery.\u201d I guess my new line will be, \u201cHow is your fuse feeling?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For weeks I have heard, \u201cYou need to buy me a new battery.\u201d Eric has wanted a new battery for his M-4 Airsoft gun. He has some friends that have a little group that have airsoft combat. He cannot miss out on the action and he absolutely needs a new battery, at least in his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[52,58],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-guns","tag-children","tag-guns","odd"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}