Which would you pick Spire IV or TFX 3?

Thank you for posting this Brad! I've been waiting for your TFX-3 review for a while. I knew that you would be the one to give a good overview of not just the hopper itself, but also the real question of how it compares to the Spire/CTRL/R2. I'm glad you're back!

Love the background music! And all your vids, keep it up!

The production quality has been on point lately

Good review sir!

Big fan of virtue. Used the the original spire and have the spire IR right now and never had any issues with either.

I have a TFX3 on my Shocker Amp, Dye Rotor R2 on DSR+, and CTRL on LV 1.6. All are reliable and great hoppers. The issue with most hoppers is how it is a pain in the ass to assemble and disassemble and the cheap thin plastics used in some of them. The R2 being the most difficult, in my opinion, to fiddle with. The R2 has annoying tabs you have to press etc. CTRL is the easiest.

Idk, the included speed feed and rechargeable battery just make it the better deal. Don’t have to spend another $100 on those things for your spire, so you save a lot of money and the tfx really isn’t bad. Just has a bad rep

Awesome review

Good job on the video

Have the first tfx and a spire iv.....love de tfx better by far

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Love my TFX 2 but popcorn effect is real and I don't think I would shell out anymore $$$ for the TFX 3. Only thing that takes some getting use to is the capacity limit and learning to run the hopper almost empty before a refill

HK needs to release a TFX "Lite" version and keep up with the rest of the market. Get rid of the battery pack, get rid of the over engineered spring ramp, and get the price down to $100 range. I like the shape and profile of the shell, but don't need the fancy add ons, just a loader that works.

For $250 I just don't think it's worth it. The Spire IR2 with a speed feed and ramps is $165 on BFPG, and if you really wanted a rechargeable battery, the N-Charge is $45. Still have enough money left over to buy a case of paint.

r2 all the way haha I just use energizer rechargeable aa's

Do all these hoppers use brushless motors like on high end drones and power tools or do they use the old noisy brushed motors, last time I used an electric hopper was 2005

I can't wait until it gets warmer out so i can get to the fields easier

If you cut off the round ring on the top paddle so it is just 3 arms you reduce a ton of popcorning

On a side note. I think we are too far in the future to continue to treat the loader and the marker as separate entities. Why does a hopper even need eyes if it could wirelessly communicate with the marker? There needs to be a standard (like qi charging) so that hoppers can efficiently communicate with the marker either via bluetooth or some other technology. Pull the trigger, the loader feeds, easy. The pulse did this back in the day, and I thought it worked well. It just feels like all loaders are essentially the same and nothing really separates them from one another.

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That ring on the first set of paddles is what's causing the popcorning to be so bad. I never see popcorning in my rotor, I never saw it in my rotor LTR, I think it's just cuz that ring doesn't allow the balls to fall properly in the panels. You know realistically that wouldn't be hard to test. You could literally hold a baller over it dumping in 30 times. I mean come on you've done efficiency tests where you're literally having to pay for the paint that you're destroying, not to mention the air. This wouldn't actually cost you anything, except time.

were those reball?

I have a TFX2. It was faulty from the beginning. I sent it back for supper. They kept it for 3 months and forgot about me until I remind them. Got it back it still wasn’t up to par. Still would stop feeding and ultimately didn’t compare to other hoppers. Never again with HK.

The colors on these things look so cheap

Brad my opinion of the tfx and tfx2 is already negative. Can't even fit a full pod in them, the buttons still sucked on the tfx2. They feel real cheap. I like that they come rechargeable standard, but I also do not like it because if it dies on you, you can't just swap them out.

Between my experience and watching others play with this junk, wouldn't purchase this loader. Watched it come apart on hard dives. Had it full and was shot in the side and broke a good bit of balls so basically was just a blender. Hella mess to clean. AND having to shake a several hundred dollar hopper when it gets low like a $20 gravity hopper to get it to feed.. HELL NO!! Do not buy this junk.

The TFX is a terrible loader.