Echo 1 M4 Question

[superpanda]

Alright this might be a really simple answer but I'm really confused. Basically I got the Echo 1 Stag Arms M4 Carbine from AirsoftGi a couple of days ago. Here's a link:
www.airsoftgi.com/product_info.php?cPath=139_24_163&products_id=10154

Apparently the battery is supposed to go in the handguard. I took the handguard out and saw there were no wires for the battery to connect to. I looked all around to make sure the battery wasn't supposed to go somewhere else and didn't have any luck. I contacted AirsoftGI and they basically sent me a link to the manual which also said the battery should be in the handguard.

Does anyone here own this gun and know a solution for this? The last thing I want to do is to have to send the gun back so I want to make sure of everything first.

[Pagan]

If it came with the crane stock, I'm willing to bet it's actually rear wired.

Take off the stock, and I bet you'll see the wires.

[Tank]

Um, the link you posted says right in the description that it is wired to the rear. The battery goes in your crane stock. I'm not familiar with that gun, but I know of three possibilities.

1) The butt plate comes off and the battery goes there.
2) The stock slides off the "buffer tube", and the battery goes in the stock and you connect to the wires that are in the buffer tube while you have the stock off.
3) The battery goes in the buffer tube after you slide the stock off.

Edit: Took me too long to write, on my phone, and Pagan beat me to it. Laugh

[YoYo-Pete]

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Definitive Answer... Everything's on youtube now a days.

Pagan and Tank are WRONG!!!! But love them anyway.

[Pagan]

If you notice, I said if and willing to bet, so I never claimed to be 100% sure. :-)

I was going off link posted, which is a rear wired m4.

The video shows a front wired m4, which has the le stock. Original post links to a different m4.

[Tank]

I second what Pagan says. If the right gun were linked, then it would have a crane stock and be rear wired, as the picture and description describe. Obviously the gun that he has isn't represented by that link.

[X]

YoYo-Pete, I think we should assume that the gun the OP linked to is the correct gun.

[YoYo-Pete]

Hmm... My bad. I honestly thought it was the same gun. What really happened is that my brain did not absorb what the OP was saying. Bad me.

I dont understand how it could come from AirsoftGI and not be standard OEM. (Well after my purchase, I actually can believe that they dont have it together. I got a free Tshirt as an appology, but that thread has yet to be written as I'm going to post pics with it and havent had the chance.. but I digress)

It says the "new version has been wired to the rear" so you got the new version. Tank and Pagan are RIGHT (dont know why I doubted them).

Experiment with what they say as it has to be one of those. More so ask Airsoft GI (or the manufacturer) for the NEW manual. Here's the manual from the Manufacturer's website: www.echo1usa.com/English/manuals/pdf/Echo1USA_Manual_Stag_Arms.pdf Seems to be only the old version.

Is there a tab to open a compartment on the back of the butt plate? The manual has that method for the other guns the manual is for.

[biozombie42]

I don't know if this will help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OqOn10lQSs&list=UU5bP-Q4UieWSqV_CyhMOXKA&index=84&feature=plcp

I purchased the Echo 1 M4 Platinum Edition, and this is the overview video. Model seems similar, crane stock seems to be similar to the one on the Platinum Edition. Provided the original link is the actual model ordered.

At 2:00 into the video Brian shows removing the insert plate underneath butt plate cover where the battery is housed.

The butt plate cover has two small tabs that when pressed in pops off the butt plate cover, then remove insert plate cover to reveal openings for the battery compartment. Crane type, and small stick type batteries will work in this model.

Hope this helps in some way shape or form.