slow Halo hopper?

[rawbutter]

So I scored a few heavily used Halo hoppers for cheap. Most work fine, but a few are... well... slow. They work like they're supposed to, but instead of the 15+ bps that I'm used to, these ones take about seven or eight seconds to push out 100 paintballs, and the stream is by not way constant.

I'm using fresh batteries and I've taken them apart completely to clean them. Do the motors or rubber bands just go bad after a really long time? Has anyone had this happen to them before?

[eXo_oUtSiDeR]

happened to my halo too I put fresh batteries in it and everything and after a few seconds of running extremely slowly the low battery light will come on. I dunno whats up with it.

[maniacmechanic]

yep sounds like the motor , we seem to run our hoppers till the batterys are as dead as we can get them , low voltage/amps is what kills electric motors

[DevilMan]

Check to see that the shell isn't pressing down on the drive rod in a funky way. Z thought his was totally dead til he took it apart and noticed the rubs around the hole in the shell where the drive spindle sticks in. See if it's been rubbing and could be the issue.

DM

[rawbutter]

Well, I actually have a spare motor (from a Halo that's busted beyond repair), so I threw it in there and that seemed to fix the problem. I guess I just need to buy another spare motor for the last slow loader that I have.

Thanks for the help.

[flyingpootang]

Check to see that the shell isn't pressing down on the drive rod in a funky way. Z thought his was totally dead til he took it apart and noticed the rubs around the hole in the shell where the drive spindle sticks in. See if it's been rubbing and could be the issue.

DM

I had the same problem with my Powerlyte shell. The top of the motor was rubbing on the inside of the shell....