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"Macros"They were onto something with the Airwolf MVT. That thing was adjustable in the extreme - up there with the crown and impact (although lower max power and no caliber change of course), but easier, could be done on the fly and was available many years earlier. Just input the exact FPS you wanted on the side screen, fire three or four calibration shots with your pellet of choice and off you went. Chrony was seriously precise and ensured a tiny extreme spread-mine was 5 over over 140 shots in .22. One of my biggest airgun regrets is selling mine to ‘get something new’. Dumbest move I ever made.
Pity the chrony wire was so easy to break, causing people to whine and whine, and Daystate to ditch the tech rather than idiot proof it... sigh. No idea why. Probably a decision made by their accountants and actuaries. Wish they’d bring it back!
Of course now they can sell a stupid little tuning computer instead...
I still have my .22 MVT with a working chrony. The chorny used to get messed up because people with little if any sense were messing with it, and they accidentally yanked out the tiny wires connecting it inside the shroud from the CPU board. A guy in South Africa bought up a bunch of these messed up MVTs and fixed them for himself and his wife.
Because of the velocity setting/feedback feature, my MVT will be the last gun I ever sell, albeit it cost me a lot when I had to "upgrade" and reprogram the factory board a few years ago because it "forgot" the velocity settings. It was a rip off. Never again...
I saw the photo of the official Daystate programmer posted by Michael. It was (until now) a closely held Daystate "super secret". I heard of only a couple of them getting into private hands a few years ago. With European paranoia and nanny-state mentality Daystate is/was worried they would be held liable if someone uses the programmer to bump up the velocity fractionally over the UK limits (to FAC). I suspect that the programmer itself has about $20 of parts and it's noting more than a PIC or other programmable chip-burner, not unlike AVR-ISP, or the ones on the Arduino platform.
I bought for my Airwolf an extreme version heliboard a year ago (it uses an Arduino Mini Pro). But did not install it yet because I would lose the MVT's chrono function and the rifle would just become an MCT. The board maker said that he was looking into trying to incorporate the chrony but never got around doing it. If I had his source code, I may be able to play with it. However, I think that based on all the other parameters already given (pellet weight, power curve, etc) , one should be able determine the actual pellet velocity to a very close degree to the actual speed just from the board's settings.
