power feed / vertical feed

[bulldog]

what is the diferance between these types of feed , whitch is better

 

[Jamie]

They refer to the way that the feed tube is attached to the marker ie: a vertical feed is attached directly to the top of the marker like on Impulses, Angels, Autocockers, and power feeds have the feed tube coming out of the side like on Spydeys, some infernos shockers and so on.

You could say that vertical feeds are better becuase the balls feed directly into the top of the marker so there is less distance for it to travel and it dosnt have to go around any bends but its realy down to preference.

 

[Richard Kirke (DUPS Rocket) UK]

I may be mistaken...

But I believe that that's not quite true. Vertical feed, feeds into the top as Jamie said, but what you called power feed I think is just side feed (left or right). Power feed actually refers to a curved plug that fits into the feed tube. this curve is lubricated by the air from the previous shot allowing the balls to feed faster than otherwise allowed by a side feed setup.

As to which is better, I think that that has a lot to do with personal preference, but if you are playing speedball, a right hand feed (as most dide/power feed setups are) will emerge from the bunker first, meaning that unless you tilt the body as you shoot, the first thing that you present your oponent with is a hopper, not good. So given the choice I would go with a vertical feed, but that may have sighting issues for some people. That all said, cheaper markers appear to be side-feed, more expensive ones going for vertical feed, I don't know why that is.

I'll just see if I can find a picture of a power feed on this sight, I think there will be a few

Richard

 

[Richard Kirke (DUPS Rocket) UK]

Here you go:

For vertical feed, you don't need to look very far, but here is an Adrenaline angel, for no good reason:

http://www.p8ntballer.com/techroomcontent/AdrAngel.shtml

For power feed there are examples from the e-mag:

http://www.p8ntballer.com/techroomcontent/e.shtml

the mag:

http://www.p8ntballer.com/techroomcontent/automag2000.shtml

and the genie

http://www.p8ntballer.com/techroomcontent/genie.shtml

for side feed, you strugle to get a good picture, most seem to show the left hand side of the marker but here are the Brass Eagle Raptor:

http://www.p8ntballer.com/techroomcontent/brasseagleraptor.shtml

and the scorpion:

http://www.p8ntballer.com/techroomcontent/scorpion.shtml

sorry that these are all links that may take some time to load, they are all from the tech-room section of this very site.

For what its worth, I have a right feed cocker, and its not too bad, but I would prefer a vert-feed body if I was buying a new one.

Hope that helps

Richard

 

[Manning26]

If you go to www.automags.org and look in the Deep Blue (I think that's what it is now, it was 'Fight Club') part of the forum, where they only let the smarties post, and do a search for powerfeed vs. vert.feed, you should be able to find some quality info. A long time ago one of the fella's put up a bunch of scientific stuff saying why the vert. feed is better than the power feed, so if you want to know A LOT about it, that's where to look.

Good luck.