Cancellation of sale of the 7.2V PTW Battery

We thank you for your continued patronage of our products.

At this time we would like to announce the changes to our main product’s P.T.W. standard battery as well as the process that lead to our decision for these changes.

Our decision has been due to roughly two major issues. The first is to protect the electronic control circuit board. The second is to shorten the lock time.

Below we wish to explain in detail.

Protection of the Electronic Circuit Board

At the present time all of the Electronic Circuit Boards found in the current P.T.W. line is called the 2004-10 version.

Compared to the previous version this circuit board has drastically reduced the consumption of electric current as well as an improvement to the reliability of the circuit brake feature. The protection feature of the circuit board operates when the power supply surpasses 5 Volts. Decreasing the voltage setting facilitated the possibility of increasing rounds fired in a single charge. However when this is applied, to balance the consumption of electricity from the battery; the battery itself attempts to discharge a large flow of current through to the circuit board.

This leads to catastrophic failure of the circuit board.

Therefore by using a larger capacity battery such as the 9.6V, it is possible to utilize the battery’s current more efficiently due to the larger capacity as well as protect the circuit board more effectively.

At the inception of the P.T.W. we wished to create the Training Weapon to cycle as close as physically possible to the Real Steel equivalent. We were able to make that wish come true with the balance between tuning of the gears along with a low voltage battery.

However we realized that the use of such a battery would lead to an unforeseen problem; hence due to the reasons as explained above we decided to discontinue the use of the low voltage battery.

Shortening the Lock Time

When developing the P.T.W. we paid particular attention to create a crisp feel to the semi-auto fire.

By increasing the voltage of the battery the response increased, however as soon as the cycle ended it felt particularly dull.

By adjusting the speed of the electric control board and making overall refinements we are satisfied with the current level of performance. Although the Full-Auto fire from the 7.2V battery is physically closer to the Real Steel cyclic rate, the Semi-Auto fire is much less crisp as compared with the 9.6V battery. By closely examining the comments from P.T.W. end users preferring the use of Semi-Auto we decided on the change.

In any case, although we have ceased the sale of the 7.2V P.T.W. battery it is not to say that this battery is not useable.

This also applies to even our future released version. When using the 7.2V battery, it is highly recommended to fully charge the battery prior to use.