Using SkyTrak Outside- Sunlight

[medney]

I have being using SkyTrak for just over a week and though I am impressed with it overall, it has been disappointing for outside use. I wanted to see how accurate it was for real shots hit on a practice ground and have found that any sort of sunlight on the SkyTrak, greatly reduces its accuracy. This means that unless it is in the shade when hitting outside into a net, I cannot be confident of the results I am getting. This is rather disappointing , as I do not have the room to hit more than a 9 iron inside my house. Is this common to other users and has anyone come up with ways to overcome this? Obvious thing would be to use a golf umbrella, but would get blown in the wind. Any better ideas?

[nyb72]

I also have far more misses out in sunlight. Also had an instance towards late afternoon when the sun was low and shining directly at me when I'm facing the ball where I got 100% misses.

I too would like to get Skytrak's input on this. Is this just something we'll have to live with when it comes to the hardware? Any possibility of a firmware that can switch camera settings for high light intensity?

[rmyoung88]

Bumping this. Thinman, did the shade work? Has anyone figured out if you need to shade the unit, the ball or both? Have a huge golf umbrella that I plan to move around for shade when its sunny.

Thoughts?

[Thinman]

I believe my issue is isolated to my unit, which is currently in for repair. The loaner unit I currently have has not produced the intermittent failures my unit was seeing. Here is the follow-up thread...

http://golfsimulatorforum.com/forum/skytrak/77803-shot-registration-issues

[awisnia]

Loaner unit? They all but laughed at me when I asked for one. How'd you manage that?

[Thinman]

credit card ransom. they were much more receptive to that over advance sending me a new unit (inside 30-days).

[awisnia]

Got it - have you heard back on the repair estimate yet? mod took down my photos - never found any obvious visible failure, tho. I bought a demo ST figuring on bad news once I send in the other for repair. Wishing the address of the RMA for repair wasn't a cell-phone repair place...

[trumb1mj]

SkyTrak_Seth does SkyTrak have an official stance on use in sun? Like another user asked: any potential firmware changes to change sunlight settings? This is a huge limitation that is failed to be mentoned in the FAQ on the website.