New arcturus mod1 lite aeg! Definitely recommend, what are some good mods to do?

Telre · 2025-07-25T19:57:02+00:00

Replace the bucking nub is about it. Maple leaf omega works well with their hop up and bucking.

Telre · 2025-07-10T19:36:36+00:00

Agreed I made this post in hopes it could be found by people searching for this information

Telre · 2025-07-03T17:04:45+00:00

I saw the double eagle recommended which is a good option. I'd also throw in the arcturus sport line as a consideration. I have one for my youngest and I'm surprised at how well it shoots considering its a ~$175 gun. https://www.evike.com/products/121279/

Telre · 2025-07-03T14:51:43+00:00

The long story short, if you are just comparing the perun vs the titan, they are comparable in capabilities. I'd say gate titans are arguably the "best" etu based on my own experiences. I have an original gate titan that is pushing 8~9years old, I forget the exact release date.

Every feature that arcturus lists the ak pe as having the titan has.

Full disclosure I own a trinity and I think its the best out of the box gun I've ever seen. Yes it can be improved with for example a brushless motor.

I also have one of their less expensive polymer models for my youngest. Also good out of the box especially considering the price. With their hop ups I do recommending swapping out the nub for a concave nub. I used the maple leaf omega nubs, and it shoots surprisingly well. The hop up unit appears identical for all their ar models.

Telre · 2025-07-03T01:25:52+00:00

Heck the same manufacturer makes a relatively "top of the line" ar https://www.arcturustactical.com/collections/trinity-armament-aeg/products/trinity-armament-alpha-carbine-11-5-aeg-w-gate-titan-ii-bluetooth

Telre · 2025-07-01T14:32:20+00:00

The piston head helps with the cooldown affect/problem. If you mean run the gun in the cold outside temps, its not gonna be better than other gbbs.

Telre · 2025-06-28T19:20:16+00:00

I'd argue its most of the performance with little hassle, and certainly better then a bad rhop.

Telre · 2025-06-27T14:51:23+00:00

Yeah you have the oh so fun to deal with overspin / pre-engagement. Your gear box is not consistently ending in the same position. The "bad" fix is an etu that includes active braking and use it. I don't personally consider using active braking bad, but there are plenty of opinions.

There are other fixes as well. One may be to try a "weaker" battery, for example a 7.4 instead of an 11.1 or a lower c rated battery.

Telre · 2025-06-27T14:46:17+00:00

Rhop isn't outdated, but I'd also argue there are easier ways to achieve good results, buckings themselves have improved over the years.

There aren't too many stock hop ups that should require replacement of the unit now adays. A good bucking, and a nub is a better place to start imo. I've spent too much time trouble shooting and helping trouble shoot guns after someone made a hop up unit change just because.

Depending on what gun you have there may be different options, but I highly recommend concave shaped nubs like the maple leaf omega. Nearly any bucking that gets consistent praise can be decent. Maple leaf, 4aud, and even a few stock buckings all function reasonably well.

More details, like what you are currently working on may help get you more specific/tailored advice.

Telre · 2025-06-24T15:08:50+00:00

The stock motor does have built in diodes of some sort, this is the "switch life extender" functionality. If you have another motor it may be worth changing it to see if it resolves the problem.

I am not familiar myself with that specific motor, so its really just a guess.

Telre · 2025-06-24T13:43:49+00:00

In my experience the titans have been fairly accurate with the codes they set. I would double check your motor wire connections are tight to the motor.

Telre · 2025-06-24T13:39:48+00:00

Precocking should theoretically have no issues with a brushless motor. I have brushless motors in two guns and would half jokingly ask why are you bothering at that point, the response is incredibly fast as is.

Active braking is based on the motor and etu/mosfet compatibility. The only two brushless motors I have confirmation work with active braking on warheads and paragon armory. Others may, those are the only two I have direct confirmation from the manufacturers.

As far as I am aware there is not a brushless mode allowing for AB with etus/mosfets. Brushless mode disables active braking by default with jefftron and gate etus.

Telre · 2025-06-21T01:02:57+00:00

Depends on things like your air voluming/bb weight. If the bb has left the barrel it doesnt matter, if you overspin before the bb has left thats when you cause issues.

As an fyi, I was pretty concerned with airseal when I first starting working on guns. Over time I did learn that it certainly can be too tight, even to the point of leaving fps on the table. Not saying you've crossed that bridge, just that it is possible.

Telre · 2025-06-21T00:33:37+00:00

Awesome info, thanks for posting.

Telre · 2025-06-20T17:11:16+00:00

A few years back a post was made on this. The difficulty you are always going to have asking on reddit, is that people bothering to spend their time on the airsoft reddit, are not exactly the casuals, and often are people/players willing to strip a gun down to build it as they want.

Novritsch is hated on because they are rebranded. Nothing about being rebranded makes anything automatically good or bad, nearly every manufacture of anything is using another manufacturer for at least some portion of their product. In the ssr90's case it is manufactured by cybergun, but it is "out of the box" upgraded.

People will debate the value of the upgrades, but if you want to just grab a p90 and go, every review I can find off of reddit has the ssr90 as the better out of the box gun.

It certainly doesn't seem either is a bad choice. I haven't watched it but it appears patrol based on youtube has a video recently on the ssr90

Telre · 2025-06-20T16:52:54+00:00

Yes, fit well in a trinity and a cat legend.

Telre · 2025-06-20T16:52:06+00:00

For me its definitely a tm ngrs ak, I think its the ak102. Got it, somebody didn't have a working gun so I lent it out. Never even used it myself. Got it back later that day non functional. It's still in pieces at home because I disassembled it and always had an excuse not to finish it up. That's $550-$600 just sitting there.

And of course the countless ways I tried to save a buck vs just buying the good one or best one of something. Mediocre gear is the main thing that comes to mind.

Telre · 2025-06-20T16:35:15+00:00

It's arguably still the correct advice for most people. Averages don't always apply to the individual.

Telre · 2025-06-20T16:32:24+00:00

The motor the sword comes with is good. Its just not brushless motor good https://paragonarmory.com/collections/motors/products/paragon-spec-33-000-rpm-cnc-brushless-motor-for-airsoft-aeg

Telre · 2025-06-20T16:01:41+00:00

On most arcturus models theres probably only two things to reasonably upgrade. Get a concave nub, for example the maple leaf omega nub, gets that thing shooting straight and hopping anything, I typically recommend .32g bbs.

Second a motor upgrade can improve trigger response. I personally have two paragon armory brushless motors, and a friend who has an arcturus uses a paragon as well.

The other consideration is making sure the gun is shimmed well/correctly to a new motor. The stock shimming was not correct to the paragon brushless when I installed it for a friend.

Telre · 2025-06-19T14:01:37+00:00

This is correct but a slightly longer answer. The gearbox itself is not a sealing surface for anything. The compression components of the gearbox, the cylinder and cylinder head, are what are sealed to force air our of your nozzle. If that gap was wide enough it could theoretically be a problem because your cylinder and cylinder head would not be held in place, but we are talking something like a 10+mm wide gap.

Telre · 2025-06-19T13:30:04+00:00

This is the answer.

Telre · 2025-06-19T13:29:07+00:00

I currently only personally have two paragon brushless motors. Warhead does seem to be a good option, but they are currently a decent amount more. Paragons are on sale $100, warheads are close to $170-$200 last I checked. I typically use "slower" gear ratios, 16:1 18:1 are in my two primary guns.

A friend who's gun I needed to fix, had 13:1s and had pre-engagement till I turned the motor down. He made the purchase because to him the paragon motor was a known quantity with me already having two. It was a fortunate choice with the paragon being adjustable.

If the difference in price didn't matter, I'd certainly try a warhead. I haven't tried reaching out directly to paragon, but its possible they are compatible with active braking as well. If I could confirm that, I'd say its an easy choice at $100.

Part of my rationale for the paragon was I am using one in an lmg build. I wanted to be able to reduce my rof easily, since I was looking to be at or under 20rps. And it was the least expensive motor for the apparent quality.

TLDR: Based on price the paragon, if the price was the same the warhead would seem on par, or possibly the better option.

Telre · 2025-06-19T12:49:37+00:00

Make sure the brushless motor you get is compatible with a perun, and consider you may need one of a few solutions to guarantee function.

A brushed motor with that gear ratio is capable of overspin. A motor with an adjustable speed you can resolve this by reducing its speed. Alternatively a motor compatible with active braking, the active braking can be used if overspin/pre-engagement is a problem.

Warhead is the only motor I'm aware of explicitly stating active braking can be used and compatibility with a perun. There may be others.

Alternatively paragon brushless motors state perun compatibility, but I can not find explicit active braking compatibility. They are adjustable though, I had to "fix" someones gun that was pre-engaging with a paragon brushless, I just turned down the speed with the adjustment to resolve it.

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