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?

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    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.

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Plain hoppers rely only on gravity to work, hence the name gravity-fed. They also need a little shake occasionally, as paintballs get into a sort of "traffic jam" near the neck. Electronic hoppers prevent those traffic jams, and thus increase the hopper's ability to feed. Helps with feed consistency and speed. The more expensive ones go a step further by actually pushing the balls down the feedneck.

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