Halo...

[Trunnion]

a friend of mine just told me that the HALO is in jeopardy of production due to a patent mix up. from what he says the operation of the HALO is so similar to that of the evolution that BE can jump on them for the patent. is this true?

[Vil3]

I sure hope not i have been waiting for a HALO for soo long that thing is going to kick some ***!.

[Webmaster]

I doubt it... The people working on the HALO used to work for VL. They are quite aware of the patents. When I last saw a prototype, the inside hardly even resembled an ego - so I doubt there will be a patent issue.

[AGD]

Lots of patent rumors going around. I can answer you with definite authority since we are in comunication with the HALO guys almost every day. NO there are no legal threats from any direction in regards to the HALO project. They have an issued patent. End of story.

AGD

[Trunnion]

thank you very much for the clarification

[DYE-BaLLeR]

how fast can halo feed?

[FeelTheRT]

Originally posted by DYE-BaLLeR
how fast can halo feed?

faster than what you can ever shoot .

[DYE-BaLLeR]

hows it work, anyone got pics?

[mac2k4]

at the AGD booth durin the cup they had a lil' warp feed/halo presentation going and the halo was easily keeping up w/ the warp.

[Vil3]

mac2k4, if anything the warp cant keep up with the HALO-the halo can feed up to 30 bps gravity according to the warpig review-even the warp cant feed that fast-im not big on the warp anyways, all my friends and i have had are problems

[mac2k4]

yeah i don't like it either, but from what every one here said for a while was that the warp was faster than the halo, i was just sayin they were wrong

[deded]

Originally posted by Vil3
the halo can feed up to 30 bps gravity

The halo most use some kind of force feed, not just gravity. I'm pretty sure that it is impossible for just gravity to do more than about 13 balls per second.

[Vil3]

it uses gravity but while it is "arranging the balls" it also ends up shooting them down with force therefore force feeding them down

[ZeroXtreme]

Not impossible...

The claim on the HALO homepage is 16+ BPS, not 30BPS.
I was also skeptic about being able to feed more than 13BPS through a gravity feed loader, however when I saw the internal design of the HALO, I finally understood how it can accomplish this.

The impeller actually "throws" the ball into the feed tube which is angled to receive the ball from the impeller. So there is actually some "force feeding" being applied as opposed to other loaders just stirring, vibrating or guiding the balls to free fall into the feed neck.

Check the image I attached.

[vtec]

oooooooh its purty