My advice do not buy the superspiller unless you’re using mostly ball powders and there is no temperature variation where you plan to use it and you’re technically sophisticated (because as another poster said starting the thing up is like preparing a 747 for takeoff)
The thing is falsely advertised as having artificial intelligence, but it doesn’t have that it is programmed to have feedback loops
The vibratory motor which was selected for patent infringement reasons not because it’s the best solution to the problem is the Achilles’ heel of the thing and it has a very difficult time handling stick powders. You will be throwing out about one out of 10 throws with stick powders because the vibrator invariably and inevitably Drops two kernels at the very end. Look at the pictures of the guys post of their super-spiller very carefully: it is rare to see one posted with a long series of throws and I mean, like 100 drops where it has better than about 92% accuracy and you know how it is, guys only post pictures of their best results. Most of the time mine was getting an 80% success range with stick powders, which is pretty much all I shoot.
Worse yet, the vibratory motor is highly temperature sensitive. So if you make Settings in summer out in your garage, they’re not going to work in winter. If you’re in a climate controlled environment you mostly don’t have to worry about this except there is some warm-up time for the vibratory motor also during which it’s operating characteristics change
Then there is the whole algorithm and interface that Peter in Australia (and God bless that guy he salt of the Earth, but he is stuck with REX‘s terrible decision to use that vibratory motor) that Peter changes over and over and over adding and removing features and multiple different screens and multiple different adjustments. The instruction manual for the fucking thing is like 80 pages long if not longer and just as soon as you get it figured out there’s another update or something else they changed or some new bright idea how they’re going to fix a hardware problem (vibrator) with a software solution. And it’s pretty apparent that that’s never gonna happen at this stage.
I was actually a beta tester and sold my machine in frustration well over a year ago when I learned the IP was coming out. if I had known it was gonna take this long, I would’ve kept it and limped along with it rather than take a big loss on it And go back to an ATV 2.75 in the meantime, but here I am, I listened to the ridiculous release date estimates of the IP system
When I first got the super spiller and I call it that because there’s always a ton of spilled kernels all over the scale, I was pretty enthusiastic because if I stayed up all night for hours tweaking it, I could get these really fast drop times but then it would always seem to go sideways on me after a run of 15 or 20. That was before I got Peter to add a success rate feature because prior to that it just told you how many successes you had had in a row. As soon as you could see what your overall success rate was over the number of attempted throws, it became apparent that you were never going to have a long stretches of success. In some ways that feature killed the machine because now guys can look and see that their accuracy rate is in the 80% range. I do think it might’ve gotten better with one of the more recent updates because Peter gave up trying to make the thing faster and actually slowed it down quite a bit so now guys are getting drop times on the order of 12 or 14 seconds. And they all make some apologetic excuse like “I can’t load the bullet faster than that so I don’t care. Personally, I want drop times of about eight seconds for stick powders in the 40 grain range and it would never do that for me with accuracy 95% or greater. Cause it’s a real giant buzz kill to have to dump a charge every couple of minutes.
That’s just my two cents. Another beta tester, I know abandoned his also.
