Patent ID: 8082911

Claim:
A method of anticipatory operation of a magazine loader motor in combination with a paintball magazine, a paint ball gun having a bolt, a breech, and a loading path between said paintball magazine and said breech to improve the firing rate of the gun and avoid undesirable paint ball jams, chopping and breakage, comprising the steps of: monitoring a movement of a paintball relative to said loading path and communicating said movement to a magazine loader motor power consumption control circuit; and altering a power consumption of said magazine loader motor responsive to said paintball movement and said magazine loader motor power consumption, to decrease said magazine loader motor power consumption responsive to high magazine loader motor power consumption and a movement of said paintball, and to reduce said magazine loader motor speed tending said paint ball towards said breech responsive to low magazine loader motor power consumption and a lack of movement of said paintball representative of an empty magazine; wherein said step of altering said magazine loader motor power consumption to decrease said magazine loader motor power consumption responsive to high magazine loader motor power consumption and a lack of movement of said paintball further comprises reversing a polarity of power applied to said loader motor.