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Leverswitch Mod for DS Boards:
This involves mounting a lever microswitch on the standard DS board. The switch is soldered onto the board, then I lay down a small epoxy coat to help hold it in position over time. The board is then compatible with any LS Shocker or Impulse trigger. DS triggers will also work with it, but the "hump" on top has to be milled down (picture).

Those pictures above are a little older. Since then I've refined the install and it looks like this:

The board above also had an S/F switch relocation, but ignore that for the moment. The placement of the switch in this install is better since it works mroe like the stock LS trigger setup.

Fire Mode Switch Relocation:
In this first marker, I moved the fire mode switch to the inside of the grip frame (under the grip panels). The owner wanted this because she didn't want the switch sticking out the front of the gun like the regular S/F board, since she didn't have a switch cover for it. This allowed her to switch firing modes by just removing one side of the grip panels, instead of the whole circuit housing.

In this other Shocker, the customer wanted the switch relocated to the rear of the circuit housing so he could quickly switch modes through the back of the marker.

In the red tiger Shocker, the Turbo mode switch was relocated to the rear of the circuit housing.

Powerswitch Relocation:
This is a very popular install, especially on the DS boards (since they don't normaly have a powerswitch of their own). Shown directly below are a few markers that now use a toggle switch installed on the rear of the circuit housing.

I've also installed many slide power switches as well. They look like this:

Here's a similar install except with a rocker switch installed on the underside of the circuit housing...

Here's an install I only performed a few times. It involves mounting a custom keyswitch on the rear of the marker, so only the owner of the key could easily operate the gun.

S-Frame Relocations:
Markers that have an S-frame installed also have the option of moving the switch to the frame instead of being on the back of the marker. The S-frame has several switches built-in for various things (power, fire mode, etc).
On one particular marker, the owner requested that the powerswitch, firing mode switch, and LEDs be moved to the S-frame. I removed all these components from the main board and planned on installing quick-disconnect fittings to let the S-frame board operate under the main LS board. The LS board looked like this before I installed the disconnect headers....

This is what the board looked like after I finished installing the headers. I insulated the connections using non-conductie epoxy instead of heat-shrink.

The corresponding board in the S-frame looked like this picture below. The bare wires that go through the board (red, black, and purple) were for the LEDs, which I installed later.

I modified the S-frame board to do exactly what I wanted by disrupting the circuits and re-routing them to where they needed to go. The final product had two switches that would operate the board (powerswitch and Turbo mode switch), integrated 25-g trigger microswitch to replace the stock S-frame one, and dual 5-mm superbright LEDs (which can be seen on the LED mods page). The board was separated from the S-frame using the two disconnects seen in the above pictures.

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