What is a good cheap electric hopper?

What is better about an electronic hopper, vs. a regular hopper in paintball?

• Im looking to buy a new hopper for my paintball gun, and a lot of the reviews say that electronic ones are better... whats better about them?

• Answer:

  Hello, You need to understand the different type of paintball loaders there is, 1. The gravity hopper -Works with gravity, or with the vibrations of the marker when fired, does not require battery, doesn't always feed constantly and is slow, maybe 2 or 3 balls per second and may not always feed. 2. The motorized hopper. -Uses a motor to shake the balls so that they continue feeding inside the marker as it it shoots, some of them are activated by sound and spin a propel, or a wheel to move the balls towards the feed tube. These do use batteries and you can probably reach 5-8 balls per second with this ones, may not feed always. 3. The force feed hopper. -Uses a motor aswell, but in this case, it contains a tray that fixes paintballs into a position, so as you shoot and the loader spins with sound activation or pressure activation, there is always a ball next to the last one. This ones can reach very high ammounts of balls per second and are asured to have always a ball inside the chamber, so you will never shoot air instead of a ball. Video in high speed demonstrating Force Feed Hoppers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=supbuj7A4hs *You can see how the balls are all lined up as the prop rotates feeding them. Hope I've helped you.