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Disturbance due to electrical devices

rob-cal
over 3 years ago

Ist it possible that electrical devices in the vicinity influence the measured values?

e.g. a fan

  • +1 over 1 year ago in reply to 4405023
    Indoor usage of the device can be affected by different factors than outdoor usage.
    • The tee/ball location must be at least 8 ft. (2.4 m) away from the net when playing indoors. This allows for enough launch angle on shots to be properly measured.
    • Metal and concrete objects can affect the radar detecting shots. Other than keeping it at the 8 ft. distance away from the poles on nets, it is ideal to keep other objects away from the device and hitting surface.
    • Appliances such as heaters and fans can affect the accuracy of the radar or prevent shots from being detected.
    • If you are using a golf mat, make sure the bottom edge of the device sits above the mat.
    • The weather data is pulled from your location outdoors and will affect distances if the temperature outside is well below the indoor temperature. When starting a Driving Range session, adjust the temperature by selecting Weather Conditions before you start playing.
  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to gmdodt

    If you’ve got it to work just curious what you did? Some people were saying I might have to make a faraday box to stop electrical interference

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 4405023

    Just curious if that worked for you? I’ve also heard that you may have to make a faraday box to cover your fan or heater or AC to stop any EMF interference

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Stevo77777

    The R10 is designed to work without additional accessories, but it would be interesting to see a discussion further on how others have eliminated environmental factors from affecting the R10 with their indoor setups. 

    In terms of a faraday cage...typically full enclosure is required to provide EMF protection just in the general sense of the basic purpose those are used for. 

    Since the face of the R10 send signals from three different radars with the signal expanding further outward...a structure around the unit like a faraday cage may affect the signals from tracking properly. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Cody

    Of course You should not build a Faraday cage around Your R10 unit.

    That would make it useless.

    Faraday cages are for other interfering units, and has been working on projectors. I have mine behind me, above the R10, and has no issues with this.

    Regarding heaters, I don't think the issue is related to electromagnetic interference, or reflections from the units.

    Microwave signals in general are sensitive to temperature layers / temperature changes, and with the high frequency these radars operate in, I would not be surprised if changes in temperature affects the performance.

    Solution: Leave hesters off while playing in order to have a stable or slow changing temperature in the room.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to odd tore

    I never mentioned putting a faraday cage around the Garmin R10 unit. I would definitely think that would interfere with readings. I only mentioned putting it around the fan it’s self if you used metal fly screen for instance it should still allow air to flow through but possibly cut down on any EMF interference. Similar to the way it does with projectors.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Stevo77777

    The spacing of the projector should be adjusted vertically, forward or backward to adjust the position of the light cone, away from the radar signal coming from the face of the R10. 

    This could mean mounting the projector to the ceiling, or positioning the projector image away from the screen balls are being hit into, like into another wall direction to view play animation and other data.