Batteries

I don't know how the heck batteries work, I have a game tommorow but I don't know if the baterry will work in my new gun. It says it takes a 1700mAH battery, but I have been sent a 2400mAH battery. Hmmm, either the gun will blow up in my face when I try to fire it, or that 1700 was just a guideline or something and I'm a paranoid freak who knows nothing about batteries. Help me please I beg you!

i still dont know what the problem is?

Ok, mAh is the power of the battery. It takes about 1 mAh to fire one BB. Probably a little less. So lets say you have 1000 mAh, you will be able to fire 1000-2000 BBs. Voltage is what you need to look out for. If you use say, a 9.4 V battery in a gun thats only supposed to have 8.4V, you could do some damage.

Cheers. In that case i'll probably run out of BBs before i lose battery power. Thanks for the help pal

Thats what we are here for. What gun is it?

tis an M4A1 Carbine (retractable) so I need crazy V shape batteries to stick in the handguard. Anyways it's all sorted now, used the gun yesterday in a game and it works fine.

Great! Glad to see I didn't give you wrong advice causing you to destroy the gun. lol What brand is the M4?

ICS. So all the instructions have been translated from thaiwanese, BADLY. lool

lol ICS is a great brand. Have fun!