The "Nerve NXT" board comes stock in all Shocker NXT markers. It is based on the previous version of the "Nerve" boards which were stock from November 2004 and later. All Nerve boards programmed in August 2006 and later will fall under the "NXT" category.
Note: This is only a guide for HOW to adjust the board. Information regarding WHAT to set adjustments at can be found on the Setting Electronics and Pressure mainpage.
Upgrading: This is the current version of the stock board. No upgrades are necessary.
Board Operation:
To activate the board, push and hold the power button for a small period of time. When the board activates you will hear it chirp and the blue board indicator LED will light up. The board is activated in Vision mode, ready to fire. You can toggle between eyes on and off at any time, by pressing the power button once (it will chirp and the LED pattern will change). To deactivate the board, hold the power button in until the board chirps once more and the LED no longer blinks (this will occur after two seconds).
The LED in non-Vision mode blinks twice fast every one second (the interval between blinks is 1/4 of a second). The LED in beam-break Vision mode will stay solid continuously, and dim when you fire. The LED in reflective Vision mode will blink four times each second when a ball is loaded; if no ball is loaded then the LED will blink once every second. As said, to toggle eyes on and off, press the power button once. Information about reflective and beam-break eye modes is given below.
Programming:
The only adjustable settings on the Nerve NXT board are dwell, recharge, firing mode, and eye sense. To adjust any of these, you must first remove the left side of the grip panels so that you can have access to the lower, vertical circuit board. You will see two grey buttons located on the side of the board; these are referred to as the dwell buttons and are used to adjust all three settings. The top button will increase the setting wheras the bottom one will decrease it, denoted by the text UP and DN printed on the back of the circuitry.
Dwell:
To adjust the dwell setting, simply push either the dwell UP or DN button to decrease or increase the setting respectively. Don't hold the trigger down while doing this or the dwell won't be adjusted.
Never set your dwell below 12 chirps, as the solenoid is not designed to cycle at this speed.
On Nerve NXT boards, dwell is adjustable between 3 and 19 milliseconds, in 0.25 millisecond increments (64 settings total). This means your dwell increases one millisecond for every four chirps, with the minimum setting being 3-ms. Information for "where to set dwell to" is often given in chirps and NOT milliseconds. For purposes of upgrading the board to another one (which uses milliseconds to adjust), you may need to know how many milliseconds the dwell setting was for the Nerve board.