[FiremanMike]

Had my first day of play today, so I thought I'd give some input as to my review on the board and valve

First to the board.

I sent my gun off to vapor works to be tuned and have a vapor valve in it. While it was out we decided to add a 2k6 board in it, which made it easier for me as I didn't have to install it.

Installation procedure is well documented and photographed both on the ICD-Owners forums as well as in the manual documentation. That being said, I still have no input on instalation as i didn't do it.

Out of the box, the stock board was completely yanked and the 2k6 board was in the lower portion of my gripframe next to the battery (for a better idea of how it looked, refer to this thread http://www.icd-owners.com/html/index...ewtopic&t=9331)

The primary programming for the board is performed with a cable that links to your computer and syncs with included software (cable is also included). I found this to be very very nice, as I really don't care for LED programming, nor LCD programming for that matter. Everything is right in front of you to adjust, and I do mean everything, utilizing pulldown menus. When you are done with your settings you simply hit the upload button and it sends it to your board. No more guessing 'was that 8 blinks or 7, wait am I adjusting the dwell or the rate of fire). There is trigger programming on it as well, so it'll still be available for you on tourney day if you can't lug yer laptop with you. The only downside was the cable plugged into a printer port rather than the much more convenient USB port.

The board also has a tourney lock jumper on it, so that while changing settings in the field, if the jumper is set, you cannot change things like rate of fire, dwell, etc.

Performance wise it was completely up to snuff. I spent most of the day in semi uncapped, so no real noticable difference there. There are numerous eye modes available to tweak to your liking, as well as a bolt timer option if your eyes have gone bad previously or you have none. In addition to that you have the option during an eye failure on the field of either bypassing the eyes or waiting so many milliseconds before shot. This is found in your software settings.

I ended the day in uncapped "true ramping" mode. I must say, this thing absolutely freaking mows faces. I literally couldn't keep up pod wise with my gun, every time I looked down the hopper was empty and yelling "feed me feed me"

Overall I think this board is a fantastic investment. Some may be turned off by computer interface, I can't personally see how though. Everything is in front of you and much easier to program than through an LCD or a trigger LED.

As for the technical info, there are too many eye modes to list, as stated there is a bolt timer option if you don't want to use your eyes or don't have them. Firing modes include, semi, nxl ramping, psp ramping, true ramping, full auto, and a few others. You can chose to cap your board or leave it uncapped, you have numerous options for how to cap it.

The coolest thing about the vlink software is the ability to save your settings as file names, i.e. max efficiency or max performance and quickly change all settings to desired effect, trade them with your friends if you like. The software also includes five pre-programmed modes which I've not yet played with, which are conservative, normal, fast, extreme and factory default.

As for the vapor valve and my newly ported LPR.

Efficiency and consistency went from a horrid 1000psi per hopper and +/- 15, I am now +/- 4 and running about 400psi per hopper. This translates into approx 1600+ rounds per 68/4500. Very hot. Kick was less, although I'm not finished tweaking the gun, I'm currently running dwell 8 LPR 1/2 down from top end leak, and HPR 300psi to get to 270 fps.

All-in-all I couldn't be happier with my performance of all my vaporworks parts.