paintball hopper / backpack

I was thinking of a hopper that would be placed in a back pack, there would be an air tank which you could easily refill in there that would put pressure into a tube. That tube would take the hopper fed paintballs out of the backpack and into your gun.  Pros- you could carry more paint without ever having to reload on the field.   -Cons would hurt a player trying to maneuver the snake or awkward positions.      The ideal use would be for a back player that would stand and kneel.    I have a prototype under construction but I was just wondering what you thought of the basic concept.

Is there a place where you can get one?  If its been done then ill just try to make it better.

alright, thnx for pointing that out ill just have to figure out how to improve it. 

^^^ I'd buy it.

sniper6 wrote: whatever happened with the TurtleBackPack deal is he producing it? if not, i want to figure out how to make one

Send an email... who knows, it looked like an awesome idea, but the thread died and there hasn't been a word about it.

As for improvement... faster feedrate? it was a slow feed rate if I can remember correctly, slow as in between 8 - 12bps, it's not bad actually but some may want to be refilling their backpacks faster .

How about you get two cheap agitating hoppers, like a Viewloader, and cut the top half off them.  Then, get two warpfeeds and hook the hoppers up to them. Place them in a backpack, put a Y connector and you have yourself a 25 bps feeder system. 

You may have to work something out with the warpfeeds though, because if I remember right, they dont feed if there is any backpressure.  So, instead of the balls meshing in the Y, one WF might not feed at all. 

You could just run 2 tubes to a TacCap and Problem solved.  Although it Would be a little bulkier.

You could also get a plastic box of some sort for the backpack so you don't have to work about balls breaking.

Edited by sniper6 - 22 August 2006 at 12:05am