R10 distances seem off.

Tantrumus said:

Had mine since early August...I've loaned it to a couple friends now that are way better golfers than me all stated the same things.

I've levelled it, aligned it, covered concrete, used it in doors, out doors, we took it to range.   

Why do you still have it?

Any tips from people for indoor setup. I've got 17feet total to use. 1 foot of that is behind the impact screen. So 16feet, which seems the absolute minimum according to the Garmin docs.

I have the exact same space and till Garmin fixes the 'indoor' issues I guess we are all stuck... For some reason, indoors, ball speed is much lower and spin much higher, as compared to outdoors for the exact same club head speeds and shot feel on my 7I.  That will explain the short distances. Hopefully a software update can fix that.  

I am guessing that like the club speed, ball speed is also calculated pretty much in the beginning part of the ball flight so why should there be such a difference indoors and outdoors?? Spin is a calculated metric anyways. 

Just to clarify, some people, like myself, hit "outdoors" into a net (backyard/driveway)... thus it's an indoor type setup because of the distance of ball flight.  I know it's semantics, but for those reading or for Garmin techs reading, the unit needs to be able to handle two environments, 1 - Indoor/Outdoor which should be called "Net" setting, 2 - Outdoor (Range & Course).  I forget which one, but there's a launch monitor out there that has a "Net" setting and a different "Outdoor" setting and the user tells the unit via the app which calibration to use.

Ideally we need someone who has a large outdoor net and can do shots into the net from different distances to work out when the stats are going bad i.e. if I had a little more ball flight would the stats improve a lot.

The problem is I don't want to loose my product return window by testing so much.

I have done that, I increased the ballfight to 15 feet, and still had the issue for net hitting.  I think the unit needs more distance to get a better read.  I could try a longer distance, but I risk sending the ball into houses.  An option would be to find a range that has a tall large net and the ability for golfers to hit into it from the side area in order to get at least 50 feet of distance.  But this doesn't address the calibration needed for indoor setups since those distances are usually 10 feet or less.

We need some input here from Garmin as to what they are doing to fix this indoor problem or at least if they are working on a solution that will be implemented?

Garmin-Rob

it seems to have gone very quiet on the Garmin representation front for this issue.

The silence is probably because they haven't got a fix (yet). Do I hold on to the R10 until a fix arrives or do I return it and rebuy if/when they fix it. Tricky.

I love the app with Home Tee Hero- but if the data from the R10 is so bad indoors then the downstream apps are worthless.

Moving to skytrak gets expensive as there's no 'no frills' sim included. Why can't there be a budget optical launch monitor - Skytrak have kept there prices high due to demand, the tech should be mainstream now.   

I think most of these issues can be fixed with software calibration or calculations, but they’re probably holding back because they need to be consistent with Trackman figures for credibility.

Sure they can allow adjustability, but then some purist golfers might classify the Garmin R10 as a toy rather than a tool.

At this point, I’m going to accept that distances are short on the Garmin and play the simulator accordingly.  I don’t think there should an issue as long as there’s consistently between shots.