The Story of the Smoking Gun

As mentioned in my previous post, i recieved my lightguns.
One of the reasons I ordered these mission guns was because they have recoil when you pull the trigger.
The recoil only works when you use a Playstation 1/2, I don't, so the recoil doesn't work for me.

Fear not! The gun comes complete with a Mains Lead passthrough for use with the PSOne so it gets the required voltage to power the solenoid.
So we (myself and the pa) have a look at what voltage the PSOne mains runs on and set a powerpack we have to that value.

After plugging the mains lead into the passthrough lead on the gun, the recoil stll doesn't work, and then....
*sniff*, *sniff*
"What's that smell?"

Yep, the smell of burning electronics was coming from the gun :(
I thought the gun was dead but it's not, and the recoil still works on my brother's PS2. Phew!

Maybe I'll research a little more before trying that again!