Static electricity affecting Mevo+ numbers

[SirShankAlot]

I have an outdoor setup where in hit into a big cage with 14' of ball flight and 8' Mevo+ to tee. Yesterday I got a couple of slight static shocks once in a while when I bent down to pick up my ball off my putting mat after a hit (I live in a dry climate). What I'm wondering is if anyone knows if static electricity (off the turf surface) greatly effects the numbers like carry, AoA, ball speed, club speed, etc. I know folks have seen issues with ghost putting and maybe spin that can be affected by static from a surface but I'm wondering about the other numbers.

I only thing I experienced was 3 mis-reads in 1.5 hrs of range practice (I don't know how many balls I hit). I'll probably pick up fabric softener spray to eliminate the static. Just curious if anyone has experience on static affecting Mevo+ numbers and ball flight path.

[GungHoGolf]

Static electricity shouldn't affect Mevo+ reads. If it did, almost everyone would have issues in the winter on turf-covered sim rooms, as it's a very common thing.

[JayJo13]

Scott Hogan just posted a video with some interesting results using fabric softener spray to reduce static around the unit. He found some success with this method and it eliminated all of the ghost putting issues he was having.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53TY8D5Kkkg

[HowardL]

My opinion is that ghost putting is unlikely to be caused by static electricity, and is almost always going to be from an unfriendly radar environment. I also have a personal example that I know for certain the environment was the cause. I am now running v0.17 and having zero putting issues over three rounds of a threesome. Prior to that I had a lot of no read putts and updated to v0.16. Instant non-stop ghost putts immediately. Since I had already read on this forum of the issue I knew what to expect, and had already wrapped my projector with screen. I was still concerned about a couple of heat pump units out side the garage wall behind my screen.

As the non-stop ghost putts were registering on the sim monitor screen (TGC2019 BTW) I investigated. Long story short placing a screen block behind the screen in-between the wall and directly in front of the outside heat pump unit stopped the ghost putts. Pull the screen block away and immediate ghost putts. Below are some pictures.

[HowardL]

Honestly, I feel for Flightscope's challenge in this regard. They will be totally at the mercy of customer's environments. I thought a little about this and believe that it will likely take an AI approach to reduce the issue. If for example they added a feature in there software that would allow them to obtain actual customer radar data from the field, and also obtain customer descriptions of their environment in order to pinpoint and distinguish between noise and actual club/ball data they could acquire use that data to train a DL network to better adjust the unit for each customer.

I happen to work in the medical instrument research field and have been using these networks with amazing results. If you really think about the endless customer environments they are presented with. They have a difficult challenge. Fortunately, I have already put in my time and retiring soon.

[SirShankAlot]

Scott Hogan just posted a video with some interesting results using fabric softener spray to reduce static around the unit. He found some success with this method and it eliminated all of the ghost putting issues he was having.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53TY8D5Kkkg

Yes this is what I was referring too as well as if you watch the Flightscope Mevo+ Vitrual Open Forum webcast replay they do talk about static in an environment that can cause noise or interference with the radar. This is why I was asking if anyone has had experience with this where they noticed it affected their numbers. It would certainly depend on a large amount of static to have an affect which I'm doubting I have that much but in any case I think static electricity can introduce noise into the radar.

As HowardL points out, Flightscope is facing a challenging situation with a multitude of unique customer environments that they have to take into account when filtering out noise. This will be an evolving area for them to program various algorithms to filter out unwanted noise and maybe some machine learning could help with that.