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The mk4 Is no longer being offered for sale. I will still fully support them of course, email me with any questions.

This is in anticipation of the mk5 which is currently in development, and will be available soon!

	Installation Manual
	Dimensions
	Main header wiring diagram
	Board Connections
	Video on how to trigger-program the Morlock

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At that time electronic markers were very new and their capabilities largely unexplored

We pioneered the concept of custom after-market electronics in paintball markers, starting with the Gabriel chip, granting "Turbo" mode to the original Angel. I then went on to invent many features now taken for granted in modern electronic markers:

• Anti-Chop eyes (yes we invented them)
• Enhanced Fire modes
  • Turbo - The Saga
  • Autoresponse - from the AutoMag frame of the same name
  • Sniper - cool mode for dual-solenoid markers I first implemented on a shoebox shocker
• Trigger Programming

The product line went on to support many other custom electronic markers and eventually saw the need for a single generic board to run them all.

The original Morlock boards, From left to right, first second and third versions.

Yup! Early 1999 with the huge success of the Gabriel chip, it occured to me that running the marker with a microcontroller meant it could also make sure it never chopped by putting a detector in the breech. It was a natural progression and several shops came up with the idea independantly, I was just first to produce one.

Force-feed loaders were not practical yet and in fact were strictly forbidden, so the fastest hoppers at the time could feed around 11bps, slower than the new trigger-modes could fire, resulting in many chops.

After a brief prayer and few shots of JD, I took a drill press to my $1000 marker and drilled the very first break-beam eye hole.

In the wrong place.

Originally I thought it best to put the sensor in the middle of the breech, not the bottom. That way the ball could be detected falling and the bolt fired at the very instant it would be seated.

Turns out solenoids are so fast this timing advance was not necessary, and was actually a hinderance. So I drilled a second hole right at the bottom, only a hair's breadth from an internal air passage I didn't know was there because damnit, Jim, I'm and engineer not an airsmith.

That first historic Angel, the first ever electronic paintball marker to have an eye, is now proudly owned by Simon "Manike" Stephens. My understanding is he sometimes shows it off, ask him about it.

Friends introduced me to paintball around 1998 and I was never really bitten by the 'play' bug, but have always been obsessed with the 'gear' bug.

I can be contacted at curt.hartung@gmail.com

A nerd in his natural habitat, a basement workshop.