VLocity Review

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By Bill Mills - Photos by Dawn Mills - April 2006

n the 1990s ViewLoader dominated the world of tournament paintball. Their electronic agitating loaders were the de-facto standard. The VL2000, and its successor the Revolution utilized an internal motor and stirring paddles to prevent the problem that plagued most hoppers at the time – jams. When light from an infrared LED in the feedneck struck an IR detector on the opposite side, the Revolution recognized that its feedneck was empty, and kicked into action, spinning its un-jamming paddles, and stirring up the paintballs inside the hopper, so that more will fall by gravity into the paintgun.

The next generation of loader from ViewLoader was the eVLution, and the later, more refined eVLution II. The eVLution took another step forward technologically, in that it allowed the paintballs to fall into a ring shaped raceway in its bottom, where they were driven by a motorized impeller to the feedneck. This move forward in design jumped from simply unjamming paint to sorting it into a line for the feedneck. Like the Revy before it, the eVLution loaders used an infrared break-bean detector in the feedneck with a circuit designed to activate the motor when a gap was detected in the stack of paintballs waiting in the feedneck.

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