share your pwr wheel adjustment technique please.
I’ve been shooting my Condor for a month now. I still don’t get the accuracy that I hoped for when buying, but that’s another post.
I’ve been trying lots of different pellets and weights, but with each pellet I try and go through the power wheel adjustments to see if there is some setting that will optimize accuracy. Three to five shots to see if it is grouping times the power wheel settings, and I just jump about .7 per adjustment, and it still takes 60 or 70 pellets just to work through a reasonable test of a pellet’s performance.
Does anyone have a better method(s) that they’d like to share?
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Stick with Jsb Exacts….
16 or 18 grn.
They are proven performers.
Tony
My personal technique is to crank the Power wheel all the way up as far as it goes and forget about it… then use JSB pellets exclusively till you figure out how and where it shoots. IMHO the Power wheel is a Joke. 😕
Got to get a chrony. You can find the feet per second where the gun is accurate and mark the PSI and power wheel. The fps and weight gives you the ft/lbs energy.
I’ve used this chrony with a pellet gun, 22, 38sp, and 17HMR and its been dead nuts reliable. http://www.midwayusa.com/find?userSearchQuery=Prochrono
Pandemic, I don’t have a chrony, I am using an o-ring behind the tophat and I’ve removed the Condor extra hammer weight.
I’ve tried pellets from 14.2 to the heavy EunJin 34 pellets. It is just daunting to go through the process of experimenting with all of the potential combinations of power settings and pellet weights. My notebook is growing quickly and the worst of it is it doesn’t appear to be repeatable. Like if one day I find that Diablo 18.1 pellets are doing great with 6.11 on the power wheel, the next day may not group at all well. It is a little frustrating.
Just today I went from 7.0 on the power wheel with Crossman Premiers to 11 on the power wheel. Surprisingly my groups tightened up to about 3/8ths inch. It almost seems to be random so intuition may have more success than any scientific methods.
you might be shooting it to hot put an oring behind the tophat or try only filling the gun to 2100 psi and see how it shoots
do you have a chrony??
if so how fast are you shooting
my condor with 12 .22 always shot hot I did the oring trick now I have a talon tunes high performance quick change tophat I put in the small insert and I golden you can skip to the end of this video so see the numbers I get with it
http://youtu.be/CjYCU2ODiW4
It started life as a .177 but now I run a 12″ .22 most of the time.
What caliber Condor?
Tony
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PigButtons,
A .177 Condor new has a different valve return spring than a Condor .22. Call AF and they will let you know of you need to change it.. I think you need the added hammer weight for consistency and should start with Power Wheel at 3 to 4, lower the fill PSI untilp you get the grouping. You may be surprised to to see FPS increase as the PSI goes down. Some pellets group best with the PSI as low as 1800.
TT new One Piece valve is the best bet but that hammer weight and spring should be checked out.