In 2009, DYE Paintball, the paintball marker and accessories company founded by professional paintball player David “Youngblood” Dehaan, introduced a new product to its DYE family. The concept behind the product was simple but it revolutionized all the options available among paintball hoppers. The DYE Rotor quickly ascended to the top of the paintball loader heap and instantly became the paintball hopper to beat. But what makes the so-called patent technology of the DYE Rotor so amazingly special? Why do fans glorify this simple paintball hopper and gush over its existence? Well, the secret is in the technology.

Paintball Hoppers Hit New Heights with DYE Rotor

Any paintball player who has used the DYE Rotor will tell you that the secret to this force-feeder paintball hopper is in its design. Basically the DYE Rotor works like this: using an impeller, like the ones found on turbines but MUCH smaller, paintballs trapped into the loader which force feeds the paintballs into the breach of the paintball maker. The impeller is usually spring loaded which basically allows the paintballs to be constantly agitated so that they are ready whenever the player squeezes the trigger. This constant agitation allows the paintball loader to feed an enormous amount of paintballs to the paintball marker and boosts the amount of speed that the balls can be transferred to the paintball marker. For this reason, the DYE Rotor is king among quantity, as it can currently spit out about 50 balls per second. This rate of paintball expulsion is second to none. In addition to the patented rotor paintball feeder system, the paintball loader is made up of nylon, making the DYE Rotor is extremely durable. The DYE Rotor also can run for more than 50,000 hours on just three AA batteries and even offers a small clear window so you can measure your paintball count.

Advances in Paintball Hoppers Signal More Speed to Come

As revolutionary as the DYE Rotor is new entries into the paintball hopper market indicates that the advances in paintball loaders have yet to be realize. New paintball hoppers can talk wirelessly, using radio frequencies, with electronic paintball markers which basically think for the gun, feeding paintballs into the paintball gun even before it has begun getting ready for the next shot. This system makes mis-feeds a thing of the past and increases the speed of the loader that rivals even the DYE Rotor’s patented technology.