Making the Qloader actually work

[_Boris_]

may be a dumb question, any reason why Qloader can't be motorized? It was designed when LiPos did not really exist, not as common, today you can get very high capacity, high current LiPos easy. A lot of motors are much more powerful, thanks to all the amps you can draw from LiPos.

How reliable is the spring winding? If it's hooked up to eyes directly, it should not be any different than most motorized hoppers and you don't have to deal with pre-winds, unwinds. ... you can probably make the pods slightly smaller too (but that would be a really big ball of wax to open)

[Levi]

Not a dumb question at all. The springs have been pretty reliable, but there’s no reason you can’t eliminate them and create a motorized socket. I’ve seriously considered this myself. You could eliminate some issues by going electronically controlled. The ball stack compression that UvHalo pointed out could be eliminated by backing off the force when idle. Lots of stuff you could do once you go this route. Just a matter of how much effort you wanted to put in.