Halo Poll. Problems or everything ok?

[Load SM5]

My HALO had worked perfectly until this weekend. It seems that when it really cold, the paint is really brittle, or worse, both, the HALO can spin hard enough to chop some paint. Then you have an entire hopper of worthless goo.

[sifu01]

During all my tesing in my basement, I never chopped a ball with around 700 shots. As soon as I got to the field, I couldn't stop chopping paint. I got a 68 p/f Mag that is about 7 years old. I tried eveything I could to get it right. I discovered that the powerfeed plug I had was the 'old' style that is a little too flat in the curve. I replaced it with a plus that actually is more angled than curved. After that, I had no more misfeeds or chops. The HALO force feeds the balls and they were getting pinched against the flat part of the p/f plug.
Overall I really like it.

[Cliffio]

Originally posted by sifu01
The HALO force feeds

no it doesnt

[ZeroXtreme]

Cliffio...

The HALO does "force feed" in a certain way, when the motor does not stop spinning, the paddle on the cone pushes the balls into the feed neck, and if there is resistance, it is strong enough to actually break balls.

Try this, put your finger into the feed neck from the bottom, while the HALO is off, and pour balls into it. Then turn it on, you will feel exactly how hard it pushes the balls into the feed neck. It sort of hurts.

I've noticed that it does not work well with vertical feeds. My friend was having all sort of problems with his Bushmaster2000.
I tried it on my Powerfeed E-Mag, and these problems did not come out, except for sometimes breaking balls in the hopper itself.

[sifu01]

I know I'm right. I own one. It does not shut off until it meets resistance in the staging parts of the hopper. So....

[Cliffio]

i was joking

[Muzikman]

The halo is not force fed. If it was, it would not be allowed in NPPL events. It simply lines the balls up before going down the feed neck.

[manike]

Originally posted by Muzikman
The halo is not force fed. If it was, it would not be allowed in NPPL events. It simply lines the balls up before going down the feed neck.

The HALO is absolutley positively definitely force feed under any sensible definitions of discussion of what force feed is. What it does though is get around the ASTM's definition of 'unallowable force feed' systems.

Which is, if it is turned upside down will it or will it not continue to feed... it doesn't and therefore it is allowed. When in the correct position (right way up) it is most definitely a force feed system IMHO.

manike

[kutter]

Having never used a HALO I cannot comment on what it does or does not do, but the article at http://www.warpig.com/paintball/tech...o/review.shtml certainly characterizes it as force fed, using words like 'Drive wheel' and 'driven'.

But as always this is just my opinion, I could be wrong.

[Hysperion]

ahhh so maybe I have been blaming my sfl for no reason and maybe it is the halo that is giving me my problems shooting outdoors...I think I'm gonna go back to putting a xboard rev with wicked mpeller back on top of the warp...

[pito189]

I just used my HALO for the first time this weekend and I absolutely loved it. I couldn't outshoot it to save my life. I went through about two hoppers trying too. The only problem I had was chopping paint in my cocker, the timing went out of whack ( looooooong story). I chopped so much paint with my cocker that it was pooled inside the vertical feed when I took the HALO off, and the paint was up inside the feed neck. I was shooting 3 month old diablo with a black and yellow shell, and it was freezing out side. The paint was very brittle too, it was breaking from knee high every time I would drop one.

The negatives, the inside is very difficult to clean. There is about eleventy billion nooks and crannies for paint to get into. Odyssey is very vague with there directions on cleaning the HALO. They say use plexas glass cleaner for the outside of the HALO, but that you can just wipe off with a towel. What do you use for the inside?

Other than that I love it and cannot wait to play with it again. Maybe this time it won't be about 30 degrees. HA!

[Load SM5]

I have a WAS Turborev board and evil impeller on the way for my back-up Revy. I'll do some tests with it and the HALO and post the results on this thread.

[oneshot]

I have not really used my halo , yet, I get to use it next weekend at practice, have run some paint through it works great so far, I will report back after I play with it.

[Cliffio]

i just ordered one, but i am think im gonna keep my x-board revy will all this talk about problems

my revy might be brass eagle but it never has problems

[sifu01]

Make sure if you have p/f,that you get the latest p/f plug!
Its always a good idea to have a backup hopper anyway.