uh…guys, that’s an ultraviolet LED, which is outside the spectrum of visible light for the human eye. The only reason you can see it in the video is because the CCD in the digital camera picks it up as being blue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet

oh lol, good catch mike.

I’ve always wanted to make an airsoft autoturret. That would be fancy indeed.

@mike

:facepalm:

no way that this guy spent the money required to get a uv led that doesnt have any visible emissions

With a regular, non-see-thru pistol, the only light source you could see would be directly in front of the gun. By which point, they should be seeing plenty of paintballs coming at their face.

It’s an old military saying, but still true… tracers work both ways. Even if he covers the charging light up somehow, the enemy can still see where the bright round came from.

Jumping on the Visible/Not Visible thing, remember that lots of things under UV light glow, so even if it were a true UV only LED and wasn’t visible, it would likely *STILL* make the things it was hitting glow, making him visible.
-Taylor

Electrical tape the entire gun… Black+not “any” visible light+ Night Tag=Epic…

Um, I play airsoft battles in Japan now, for over 1.5 years, both indoor and outdoor massive games. I can tell you that there ARE commercial solutions for tracer bbs. That’s why they make them!

Tokyo Marui has made a full auto tracer flash unit for years- and last year they came out with a new model I have. Works great. Tip- the big boys don’t use UV leds for lighting them up. The tracer units (shaped like a silencer with a red laser detection trigger for bbs inside) are always instantaneous high-powered strobe bursts. My full auto tracer unit was about 95$, but it lights up bbs at full auto speed from my Mac 10 Vietnam custom, at at least 15-20 shots a sec.

Basically, each single bb gets a full tube of intense strobe flash- they light up like they’ve been painted with luminova or something. Works amazingly well. Granted, they take 4 AAAs, and you can burn them out in a long night, but it works great. I even made a custom mod and hid my tracer unit inside the massive Vietnam custom kit silencer you get. A single press, and fully silenced lightning pours out of my gun.

UV will work, I’m sure, but professional gear uses HID strobes confined inside silencer type metal housings, with laser trip switches. If anyone seriously wanted one, I could call in Japanese and order you one. I can’t believe no one knows about standard Tokyo Marui equipment here!

Even if it *was* an high-quality uv-only source, it’s gonna make *everything* around it fluoresce anyway, so it’s a moot point (ie don’t wear anything white or that has been washed with powdered detergents – they’ll glow just like anything else)

While he’s right that there’s no commercial device for that particular gun, they do have them.

http://www.airsoftpost.com/matrix-type-full-auto-tracer-unit-tracer-illuminator-p-29828.html

I believe there’s also one that’s shaped like a magazine.

@fartface: 150nm LEDs?!

Where do you get those?

@dechrlam I pointed it at the camera (which is your face) not mine.

The are comercially available units (Tokyo Muri is the best) but they are for AEG’s not pistols and wouldn’t be compatible plus I’m not spending >$100′s to make a $40 gun have tracers. I like the camera flash idea I may have some leftovers from a coilgun I’m building to play around with that Idea thanks.

since when are AA’s 12 volts ….. last i checked they were 1.5 volts

@drew its not a AA is a A23 used in car remotes and voltmeters

Its pretty cool that you can ad that mod to have your pellets light up for night games. Would like to be a by-stander to see a night game, little flashes going all over the place.

Would be an idea to put some kind of cover over your gun though so you don’t give away your position easily.

Olly

I wonder what you could do to hack some more power out of this pistol. http://www.monster-airsoft.com/Cyma_Glock_CM030_Metal_Gear_AEP_p/cm030.htm