Pardon me if this is a stupid question, but, since they are wired in series, can eliminating the airsoft warning LED have an adverse effect on the airsoft unit/motor? The diagram I've seen show that the warning LED is about 2.5v. Does taking out the light mean that an extra 2.5v will now be going to the airsoft motor?

i got rid of mine without any adverse effects,but if you are still worried about it leave it on but just leave it inside the turret, buy the way ,no questions are stupid if you dont know the answer, someone here will, so ask all you want

Thanks Ice... my initial plan was to leave it inside and place it in the area of the breech to help light the Crossman Glow BBs, but they are red LED's and don't power the glow BBs very much, if at all so I was going to just scrap the LED.
Maybe before I put it back together I'll check a Radio Shack or something and see if I can find a white LED to replace the stock one and still do that.

Red LED wont charge the glow BBs much at all. Switch it for a small torch globe (2.4v aka 3v globe)

Hi guys you would need to use a blue color LED i have ones they sell for salt water tanks and they make flouressant painted stuff glow like how a black light does...and a black light makes glow in the dark stuff glow to full power as soon as the black light hits it!! so if you put one of these LED's in the BB compartment your bbs should glow for sure!!

Here is what i have... the blue ones..I am sure you can take it apart and run it off the battery
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/produc...m?pcatid=12760

As to your original question: I believe that the cannon LED circuit and the Cannon motor circuit are in parallel, NOT series.
Therefore, removing the Cannon LED should have absolutely NO effect upon the power to the cannon motor.

Suggestion of using flashlight bulb to illuminate the glow BB's is good for 'charging' the BB's, but bad for power budget and like;y to draw power needed for the motor (also may overdrive ths supply circuit for the cannon).

Overdriving a blue LED to get UV emmissions would really charge the Phosporescent BB's. But, I don't know if you could do that with the existing circuit for the cannon LED. Don't know that you couldn't either...... hmm....

The warning led is definitely in parallel with the gun motor, and in fact it light up when the motor is pulling back the airsoft piston. It might get you wrong the fact that they might share the same wire from the connection point on. But they are in parallel. Therefore the warning led is under 7.4 V, and that is the reason why, if you check , you will find a small resistor in series with the led, to drop the tension.
You could replace the led with something to charge any glowing BB, but if I can give you some advices, build a separate circuit to charge the BBs, using a button-type battery and a UV led (they exist) as I did in both my Pershing and my 1/18 Panther.
If you try and use the warning led connection, since you cannot put the led inside the piston or the barrel, you would have about 1 second to charge the BB before it is pushed into the barrel by the forward piston, provided you put the UV led just over the end of the loading ramp. Too short a time to properly charge the BBs.
Instead, if you put a switch-operated UV led in the loading ramp (I used the safety switch), you can charge the BBs for several seconds, or minutes, before shooting them.