The truth about HALO's?

[hitech]

They work fine on power feeds. Did you see my video of a hyperframe firing at 20bps? That was a Halo B feeding a power feed.

[AlabamaMan]

I forgot to say that we are both sending them in today. I'm also sending in my worr gas. All the new toys i got in the last two weeks are going back

[cphilip]

Did Black use the new clear one too? Or did someone else get that one?

[AlabamaMan]

I was useing the new smoke one he got from you. He was useing the blue one that he has had since IAO last year.

[cphilip]

Oh my mistake. I thought he got a clear. Ok thats what I need to know cause I kept one of those for myself and have not tried it. I better take a look at it. Sorry about that. Thats not good at all. I just wonder if any more are like that then. I had 10 of them come that shippment...

[AlabamaMan]

No problem, i guess steve's just couldn't handle how fast he shoots, and mine couldn't hand such an aggressive style of play...

[manike]

Re: i don't no

Originally posted by Nick O time
its ok, but on my powerfeed it was sooooooo powerfull the balls would push against eachother and be held against the breach nob(or whatevr it is called) and not feed.

This is probably the fault of the powerfeed plug. Is it one of the new adjustable parabolic feed plugs, if not that's the issue? It's important to use one with any force feed system (warp feed included). You also need to adjust the feed plug correctly so itsits perfectly flush.

[No sKiLLz]

Ok, I'm getting to be pretty good with the hardware side of paintball because anything and EVERYTHING that can go wrong with a marker, the hopper, the regs, etc. has happened to ME!!!

Keen example, by the will of satan and his evil curse to keep me from playing a whole day of paintball he burned out the motor on my Halo B and then my friends who I borrowed to replace it.

So, for what it's worth, here's my opinion on the Halo.

First, you must get the latest TE Halo B. It's the latest and greatest for a reason. Unfortunately I haven't seen a way to tell if it's the TE except by turning it on. If it turns and stops, it's not a TE. If it continually spins, it's a TE.

99% of the motor burnouts, from my own personal experience and from those I complained/comiserated to in my frustration, have occured from using black or half black shelled paint. What ends up happening is the IR eye can't see the ball if it's black, so if a half shell ends up with the black side facing the eye, the motor will keep trying to turn and therefore burn out the motor. I had to stop using my favorite rec ball (severe standard) for this reason.

Odyssey has awesome customer service. I overnighted both Halos to them on Monday and enclosed a letter and explaination (I had burned up a chip on the board trying to repair the motor) and they fixed it all for free. All I paid was shipping and handling. Plus, a live person picked up the phone every time I called.

The battery pack does make the Halo VERY top heavy if you don't use a warp feed, but I solved the problem with a simple fix of running the battery cable to a pager pouch strapped to my airtank and improved the balance of the marker astronomically.

Currently, the love of my life is an NYX Matrix, and the Halo is the only thing that can feed it smoothly and consistently. Even an Egg skips a shot or two if the gun isn't completely upright (ACE stops the marker from shooting).

NEwayz, that's my opinion so take it for what it's worth.

P.S. I'm not a junior member, I just screwed up when I registered. I'm 25.

[hitech]

Originally posted by No sKiLLz
P.S. I'm not a junior member, I just screwed up when I registered. I'm 25.

BTW, "junior" in member refers to the number of posts, not your age.

[cphilip]

Originally posted by No sKiLLz
99% of the motor burnouts, from my own personal experience and from those I complained/comiserated to in my frustration, have occured from using black or half black shelled paint. What ends up happening is the IR eye can't see the ball if it's black, so if a half shell ends up with the black side facing the eye, the motor will keep trying to turn and therefore burn out the motor. I had to stop using my favorite rec ball (severe standard) for this reason.

That is indeed NOT the case MOST of the time. I had one burn out right out of the box with NO use of black paint of any kind. And they DID have bad batches of motors. Made no difference about the paint type.

[No sKiLLz]

Aaaah. Now I look even dumber. Great. Does anyone have a shoehorn so I can get my foot out of my mouth?

This is a classic example of how I learn everything. I'm going to get a license plate frame that says "Alumni- School of Learning from being a Dumbass"

[cphilip]

Hehe no its cool! You may indeed be correct that some of them did do it because of that. But I think the 99.9% is the thing that I was challenging. Thats all. But you did bring up a good point though.

[BajaBoy]

Originally posted by cphilip
I have one guy shooting a B that was second edition and he prefers it because it pushes harder and keeps up with his race frame better. He refuses to upgrade it until it dies.

can you explain that? im kinda confused, are you saying one of the halo b's push harder on the stack?

im asking this bc you said 2nd edition.. which i thought ment the TE, but then you said he wont upgrade.. which makes me think of the first halo b's.

[cphilip]

TE is Third Edition

Second Editon was the pulser

but some had trouble with SE as it was double feeding and mashing balls in too hard and jamming. Angels particularty. But thats the reason it pushes harder if the marker can feed it. They softened it up with TE.

[No sKiLLz]

K. Scratch the 99.9% and just make sure if u get a Halo not to run black paint. I called Halo and they have the warning on their web site, but they didn't include it in the instructions that came in the box. I think I may have saved them a little coin.