What is the effect of misalignment?

[Thinman]

I am having a hard time understanding the effect caused by misalignment of the SkyTrak. These things tend to confuse me.

Does it simply effect aim? or am I overthinking in wondering if misalignment would effect spin readings?

My swing really is not consistent enough imo to sit and try to do a test.

[mthunt]

Misalignment just causes the ball to start left or right of where it should. You can align by hitting flat putts. You'll get it right pretty fast.

[Dan McWhirter]

I put an aiming stick next to the SkyTrak base

[SkyTrak_Seth]

Alignment will affect side angle only, not side spin.

[Wyzyguy]

As a quick setup guide..
- Level the unit
- Turn on alignment mode
- Place a playing card, guitar pick, ball mark, poker chip, whatever.. on the alignment dot.
- Place ball on ball red laser dot.
- Start balls over the alignment mark (poker chip or quarter is my current set up.

Alignment stick pointing down the line formed by the 2 laser dots out ahead of the ball is helpful as well.

[golfinaddicts]

My alignment lasers are completely out of whack. If I drew a line parallel to the edge of my skytrak unit and through the alignment dots, the front dot is over an inch closer to my unit that the rear dot. This is with the unit level on a level white countertop. I always use the edge of the unit as a straight line and not the alignment mode for this reason. I dont know if I am messing up doing this but it only made sense that the cameras would line up with the unit itself and the lasers were just out of whack is my guess.

[doublebogey]

Mine is the same. I trust the laser alignment dots more so have to place SkyTrak next to my mat with front end closer to the mat than the back end.

Maybe SkyTrak_Seth can chime in on whether we should trust the laser alignment dots more or the alignment of the unit itself more?

[SkyTrak_Seth]

I would trust the alignment of the unit itself. I think we've seen that those lasers can be knocked out of place slightly, and they really have no tie to the cameras. If the lasers are not matching up to real-life alignment, you can always have it sent in to have the readjusted, but I'm beginning to question the practicality of the alignment mode feature due to this reason. In a perfect world it would be a nice feature, but it's not really what the lasers were intended for.