Confused?! Tryingto control a paintball solenoid.

[mister_e]

Ò.K. after few Paintbal Gun user and gamers talkin. I learn a few things on a common gun DM4. I'll assume these i heard

1. Human can shoot about 20 balls/seconds
2. Full automatic : about 13 balls/seconds

let's figure your gun,loader and everything i don't know, can do this. i'll figure more time for loader time than solenoid time.

let's figure it a the maximum of 20 balls/seconds. we will use 20Hz as frequency with an 40% duty cycle (i figure high level as time on gun solenoid). So about 20ms for solenoid time, 30ms for loader time. i'll use an PIC12F675

ANSEL=0
CMCON=7
TRISIO=1  ; GPIO.0 as input, other as output
GunDetent  VAR     GPIO.0  ;GP0 as detent input
Solenoid   VAR     GPIO.1  ;GP1 as Solenoid output
KillEmAll  VAR     BYTE
Loop       VAR     BYTE
T_ON       VAR     BYTE
T_OFF      VAR     BYTE
IsItTimeFiring VAR BYTE

KillEmAll=3
T_ON=20
T_OFF=30
IsItTimeFiring=0
Solenoid=0

start:
        
     While GunDetent=0 ;wait for detent press
     Wend

     If IsItTimeFiring !=8 then
              Gosub ActivateSolenoid
              IsItTimeFiring=IsItTimeFiring+1
     ELSE
              FOR Loop=0 to KillEmAll
                     Gosub ActivateSolenoid
              NEXT
              IsItTimeFiring=0
      ENDIF
      WHILE GunDetent ;wait for detent release
      WEND
      GOTO start

ActivateSolenoid:
     Solenoid=1
     PAUSE T_ON
     Solenoid=0
     PAUSE T_OFF
     RETURN

this should work as you want.