Originally posted by John[SAD]
The egg is a force feed loader (otherwise how could BE have sued odyssey), when the paddles are spinning it pushes the balls into your gun, it doesnt just rely on gravity, this gives you a much faster hopper than the revo.
No it is NOT a force feed system, it doesn't even come close to performing like a forcefeed system.
They sued Odyssey over the eye system 'to detect the absence of a paintball' which Odyssey doesn't do and is partly why BE settled the case.
Put an evo on a gun and let it fill up with paint. Now fire a shot. A gap appears in the line of balls and the paddle won't move or start up. With mine you have to fire 3 shots before the eye notices the gap and the paddle and starts up. There is NO way the paddle is keeping pressure on the ball stack! None whatsoever!
You can see this process repeat as you fire a string. You shoot stack empty down to eyes, paddle fills stack then stops, you shoot stack empty down to eyes etc...
Also there is more to it than that, the outlet feed channel and how the paddles interact with it is also different. With the EVo balls can be swept passed the outlet channel. With the halo they can not. They are forced into it
Originally posted by John[SAD]
Rumours are around of a new board for the egg which pre tenses the ball stack in the same way as a halo, giving you a cheaper alternative to the halo with similar perofrmance and smaller profile.
Hmm the Evo appears to me to have a bigger profile. I can't wait for BE to come out with this board because then OPP will have grounds to sue them
should get interesting... If they are detecting balls that are present and moving then OPP have that covered in their patent and BE do not...
Originally posted by John[SAD]
Personally im happy with my intelifeed egg, it certainly pushes balls in during rapid fire and cos the intelifeed is proactive theres no delay on your first few shots either.
That's because someone has intellifeeded it, it doesn't do that normally. I would love to do a genuine test of that to see how fast it is. To be honest I'd be suprised if it makes a huge improvement because the eggy paddle will just sweep balls past the outlet rather than keep a pressure to force them down the outlet. The paddle and outfeed neck is actually designed to do that. I suspect any performance increases you have seen are more to do with the reduced delay and how that will stop blowback affecting the stack of balls.
