Empire Reloader = Halo?

[Steve Hancock]

Never come across the Empire Reloader before. Saw an ad for it on the 2nd to last page of this months PGI, and was wondering - isn't it just a HALO?

Have i missed an Imperial takeover of Odysey?

 

[Speedyg4LS]

on www.paintballgear.com its up there and it looks the same as the other one!!

 

[WingNut]

the main difference between the two is that the HALO is activated by using 'eyes' in the feed tube and the Reloader is activated by utilising the sound (when fired) from the marker. That way it doesn't have trouble with two-tone & black shelled paint .

Also comes standard wth a ripdrive installed.

Same shells and inside bits, I think........

 

[Ben Frain]

I have a reloader B, nice bit of kit, along side what WingNut says you can also select from 3 speeds and run it on either 4 or 6 AA batteries - nice

Fairly certain we have Manike to thank for it

 

[Steve Hancock]

why does it look so much like the halo, is it a modified halo, or has it just copied it?

 

[Ben Frain]

It is a Halo????

It has different internals as WingNut mentioned (sound, not eye activated), different board software (to give speed options and work with sound stuff) but retains the raw 'hardware' of a normal Halo.

Same shells, drive cone, tension spring etc. It is a Halo, only different

 

[IanC]

Sounds good, if it performs as well as the original re-loader did then I think I want one!!!

Anyone know if there will be a conversion kit for a standard halo???

 

[Beaker]

The Reloader is basically a rip drived Halo with sound actication. However I've found mine to be much better than my std B. You get a 4 cell battery pack as well as a 6 if you want it to be a bit lighter, I used the 4 cell all weekend and haven't noticed it as being slower than the 6 and it is much lighter.

The boards has 3 speeds, so if you are using really fragile paint/don't want it to be at top speed to save battery etc you can use it at a slower speed (that's still faster than I can get out of an EvoII on my gun)

Plus the sound activation happens once for each "bang" so you don't get that REALLY annoying problem where the eye misses a ball and just keeps spinning over presurising the stack

Frankly it get's 10/10 from me, I love it, trying to bring back a second one actually!

 

[Beaker]

dagnamit I type too slow

 

[jack]

anywhere in the UK stock and sell these? whats the retail also?

jack