Super
Soakers have never been the same since the CPS 2000 came out in 1996-97.
The Constant
Pressure
System
allows guns to have a Powerful Blast from First Shot to Last, with outputs
and streams so thick and juicy that it will blow your mind... And Blow
your opponents away even further. Since their Creation, they have taken
over the Field of the Serious Water Warrior, and each one of them can hold
their own against another CPS, bigger, or smaller.CPSs are better known for their massive size and massive output power. Water Guns with Nozzles upwards of 20x and sizes as large as the CPS 3200 are made possible by the revolutionary pressure system put into play on these guns. The Constant Pressure System consists of a large thick rubber bladder (composition of which is like the rubber found in bicycle inner tubes, only about 5x thicker - 7mm-1/4"). They are found in two shapes, Cylindrical like in the 3200, or Spherical like in the 1200 and 2700.
The resulting effect in using the kinetic energy stored by pumping water into a stretched thick rubber bladder, is a very powerful, high pressure, steady stream of water, with very little dropoff as the blast wears down. Now, CPS guns do lose pressure over the duration of their shot, but due to characteristics of the rubber, the stretching power is only insufficient to push a long range blast as the rubber returns to it's natural unstretched state. The result is a Long, Powerful, for the most part Constant blast that drops of very quickly at the end. On CPSs with 5x or larger nozzles, the drop-off is only the last microsecond as the blast seems to drop out of the air. On CPSs with 1x nozzles, the drop-off is the last 2 or 3 seconds as the water starts to drizzle out.
The effect on output per second statistics of the gradual CPS pressure loss is larger outputs in the first second than in the rest of the seconds of the blast. Output/Sec multiplied by the Seconds per shot, compared to Pressure tank Capacity size are often imbalanced. It is, however, very close.
For a further example of CPS drop-off, a table has been included.
Because of this little drop-off system, a decent attack can be made at any amount of pumping, and makes for much better use of the water supply than the typical Air pressure based system. Instead of having a large amount of drop-off and much of the water in the pressure tank remaining wasted on low power, you have full pressure tank usage, longer shot times (by nozzle size), but substantially more pumping required.