What is the Equalizer?

The Equalizer is a tournament legal board for AKA's Excalibur and Viking series markers. This board has been approved for use by AKA, which means that by using this board you will not void the warranty of your marker. This board will work in all current and future AKA Excalibur and Viking models. This upgrade board increases the rate of fire and offers numerous other features (described below).

How difficult is it to install the Equalizer?

Installation of the Equalizer is very simple, and takes just a few minutes! Just remove the grip assembly of your marker, remove the old stock circuit board, plug in your new Equalizer board, and then reassemble your grip! That's it! No soldering or any type of permanent modification is necessary! You can change back to the stock configuration at anytime.

To see for yourself how easy the installation is download our complete step-by-step installation and usage manual (see Product Manuals in the Downloads menu).

How does it work?

The Equalizer uses highly sophisticated algorithms for calculating the optimal cycle timing. This technique makes the balls available to the marker quicker by not having the bolt in the way of the balls falling during a high rate of fire.

What other features does the Equalizer have?

The power supply used with the stock Nelson board is not sufficient to drive the solenoid output at a high rate of fire without shoot down. The solenoid drive circuit is also not sufficient to drive the solenoid at sustained rate of fire. Both of these problems have been corrected with the Equalizer hardware.

There are no dip switches. All settings are stored internally. Settings can be changed at any time via the computer interface (Equalink). Settings such as the dwell, Debounce(tm), eye mode, BIP Delay(tm), rate of fire cap, eye power, and firing mode can be programmed using the trigger and LED.

The computer interface allows the user to adjust all of the settings as well as give you the ability to completely reprogram the firmware on the board. Wicked Air Sportz will periodically update the firmware as we improve it, and this allows an easy method of upgrading boards without them having to be returned for the upgrade. Updates will be available via our website for downloading as they become available.

Technical information about the Equalizer

Rate of fire: limited only by the pneumatics. Approximately 40+bps.
Power source: 9v battery.
Interface: proprietary, based on EIA232 standards.
Warranty: lifetime.