Missed shot fix

[Clovesky]

I know anyone that owns a skytrak has experienced missed shots by the monitor and always seems to be when you hit it best. Well I've come up with a very simple inexpensive way to correct that problem. It's so simple I can't believe no one has tried this that I know of. It works so well I think skytrak should incorporate it into their design and compensate me for the idea. I have over head led lighting and a dark background but the fix is even more simple than that. I simply added a blacklight (like the ones you had as a kid that made things glow). Use a orange or yellow bal, I haven't even tried a white one but it makes the ball glow like a light, it hasn't falied me yet Give it a try and see for yourself.

[bubbtubbs]

Doesn't Skytrak use infrared to image the ball, though?

[JPXG]

Nevermind......

[dborden0]

I would be curious how that performs with putting on TGC 2019? That is the frustrating misread for me.

[Clovesky]

I have and use TGC2019. It works with colored or white balls. It's all about contrast from what I've read. I have a dark backdrop and overhead led lighting positioned so it doesn't cast a shadow of myself over the ball. I don't know all the technicalities and it does still miss an occasional shot but nothing like before. I think the shots it's missing now are from incorrect ball placement. I try to explain to my friends that the location of the logo on the ball does make a difference but there to lazy to bend over to face the logo at the unit. I don't know for sure that it makes a huge difference but if there's any chance that it does, I'm damn sure going to do it.

[Morini]

I don't contrast has anything to do with it. Light intensity decreases by the square of the distance. So the walls 8 feet away get 1/64 the illumination of the ball that is 1 foot away. Even a white wall appears black in skytrak's images.

[Morini]

Interesting. But I can think of zero reasons why that would help at all. Skytrak freezes the ball with two extremely brief pulses of IR light. How would black light help at all? Skytrak works absolutely fine in the dark and needs no external illumination in any spectrum.