R10 distances seem off.

I have been using the R10 for a couple days now and my distances seems way off. Seems very club is approx 20yards short from the range? Is there anything that needs to be done with calibration?

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Tantrumus over 3 years ago in reply to 2546446 +17

I'm a new owner couple days. Every club is ridiculously short. On real course I bomb 250 on bad hits....I struggle to get 180yds reading. All the irons seem like they are read like an 8I. Can't get…
2546446 over 3 years ago +9

Similiar problem for me, been using for a couple of days and all clubs are only recording 2/3 distance, checked the setup with a tape measure and spirit level and still the same problem. I have tried inside…
Tantrumus over 3 years ago in reply to Tantrumus +6

I want to love this thing had such high hopes and as is has become an enormous let down.

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0 Ravi over 2 years ago

Anyone here do a side by side comparison as yet with Skytrak/Trakman and R10 to see if ball speeds measured are similar/accurate?

0 4149238 over 2 years ago in reply to Ravi

Hey Ravi, my range has top tracer - ball speed and launch angles are identical almost all of the time.

In general the carry distances only vary dependant on wind.

0 Ravi over 2 years ago in reply to 4149238

Any indoor comparisons? Not sure if walls, ceiling etc have a part to play? As per Garmin ball speed gets measured in the first 4 ft of ball flight so environment should not be a factor. Hence keen to see an indoor comparison b/w Skytrak/Trackman in a typical user environment and not a fancy indoor bay.

0 flashbike87 over 2 years ago in reply to wlegard

I find this to be the cause, i am using 6 degree driver and distances are 30-50 yards off. I use a 10.5 degree and seems spot on +-10 yards

0 1451465 over 2 years ago

Same. I just started using mine and I hit my 8 iron 160 Yards pretty accurately in real life but only 130 yards using r10. I checked set up at 7’ and I have 12’ or so between the ball and the screen. R10 is sitting same height as my mat. Not sure what else to do but definitely would help for working on my game if it were with 5% of my distances. Any help is appreciated.

0 1825070 over 2 years ago in reply to 1451465

I have just received my R10 2 days ago.. I have a golf sim in my garage and all distances and ball speed by the R10 are about 80 % lower than real play. Garage unit, with carpet on all exposed flooring (concrete) and the walls and ceiling are drywall and wood studs. I have tried with garage door closed and all lighting and electronics on and with the garage door open and all electronics off. NO difference in results. Unit updated to firmware 4.0 on delivery. Calibration routine had NO effect on the carry distance or club speed. I have varied device height and angle of device both forward and backward...no difference. Launch angle is also low, but varying the R10 height seems to not affect that much or at all. I normally hit my driver about 180-190 yards ( I am an older guy about 75). I have not been able to get over 110 yards total distance and about 80-85 yards carry on ANY club. Going down from driver results in shorter distances consistently. I have the net/ impact screen 10 ft from the ball impact point on the mat and the Garmin 7 ft behind that at the mat height ( or more). Changing these distances is ineffective and seems to be not useful.. I have tried it in another sim bay...no real difference. All shots are 50-80% short of real results. I bought it for Indoor use at a golf club, locally, and consider it to be problematic if the club speed and ball speed is so low as to give such horrific results. My driver and or 3 wood is not a club speed of 35-45 mph but the Garmin insists it is. On the other hand all the other data ( not spin) that the Garmin records indoors on my shots is pretty accurate. If I top it, it says so . Right, left and other mis hits are accurately recorded. If they could get the indoor range, carry distance etc. to work it would accurately reflect pretty good results. It seems they simply need to have a software switch added for indoor use that would allow you to adjust the carry and club speed results to reflect actual results for YOUR particular sim setup. An indoor switch with an offset to allow accurate distance and ball speed (indoors) would make this a killer.

Without that, the device is essentially useless in an indoor setup. I have not, however used it at a range, or in real play yet, so I may need to adjust my thoughts as to its accuracy, outside of an indoor practice setting. As it is right now I will return it as a bad product, that could have been really great.

0 nbargolf over 2 years ago in reply to 1825070

I had much the same with the R10 until I went with GSPro. With it my distance is pretty much spot on. Don't know why GSPro uses the signals generated by the R10 through the Garmin golf app. Some how their calculations must be different.

0 2727052 over 2 years ago

I got my r10 yesterday. I'm using it outside into a net and distances are also 20-30 yds off for me also. Have tried lots of different options ... 8 ft to net, 10 ft to net, 4,6 and 8 feet behind the ball, raising the height of r10 etc. I intend 2 raise this with Garmin directly. However, It seems that e6 is more accurate with the altitude option (10k ft above sea level). I'd like 2 try e6 but only have daughter's iPhone. If I set up e6 on the iPhone does anyone know if I can l8r use it on a different iOS device ( iPad) using the same Garmin account?

0 2117831 over 2 years ago in reply to 1451465

So I felt I had similar problems with my garmen but I realized that when hitting off a range mat shots are much less forgiving. You need to hit the ball first then the mat. I have been keeping my eye 2 inches in front of the ball and making contact with the ball first and get more realistic yardages to real life

0 1825070 over 2 years ago in reply to 2727052

Tonight I made some changes to my sim. I had numerous metal pieces as part of the sim and also because it is in my garage, I have 1.25" metal poles that define the outside edges of the sim, and support both the net and impact screen at all 4 sides ( top, sides and bottom ). The screen and nets are 2 feet from the rear wall, so, of course, I stash stuff behind the net. Which of course includes my full metal rolling tool chest (4-5 feet high), a rolling high intensity lamp, and the 10" table saw that is just to the right of the net/screen area also being near by.

So, after removing all that stuff, and placing it in an area that the R10 would not normally "see", I retested the R10 for distances and club speed. Instead of the 80 % distance shortage I was getting, the R10 started reporting distances and club speed that were only about 30-35% short. Maximum Driver is still only 135-140 yards ( but better than the previous 105 max distance) and club speed is up to 60 mph. That seems to be the normal indoor shortages that others are seeing, and perhaps can be tweaked even further. I am considering replacing all of the metal pipe with 1.5" sched 40 cpvc pipe. Furniture grade cpvc pipe is rated to withstand the impact of most all things without buckling and probably is the best material to use to construct an indoor sim. If I can eliminate ALL the metal framing for the golf sim , and I can get the reported club and ball speed to at least 80-85% of real speeds, than the rest of the data the R10 shows is acceptable. It still seems to be accurate about launch data angles, club angles and ball path , and can be considered as very repeatable data readings for nearly all readings (but spin).

I still have not used it outside of the sim area ( in real play) , and think that it will likely increase club and ball speed to the range I am thinking it will, there. At 85% you can compensate for shorter range readings easily mentally and that is not a significant distance error as long as it is consistent and repeatable. If so, it probably is the effect of the indoor sims areas being metal framed that is the cause of the erroneous speed and club data, due to using metal in areas that the radar will pick up and then distort the resulting readings. I do find that the consistent readings it gives as far as all other parameters ( launch angle, club impact angle, club path, etc) are enough to justify keeping it, if the distance and club speed readings can be brought close to reality by eliminating the metal interference.

Although most home sims have limitations as to what and where they can be placed , eliminating metal pipe as the support material to control net and impact screen may be part of the solution needed. 1.5" CPVC wrapped in insulating foam should be adequate ( and likely cheaper) than 1.25" conduit for the same purpose ( and the other fittings required to assemble a net/screen cage are also cheaper, (and lighter) if you shop around.

I will possibly make a cage that can be winched up to the ceiling to get it out of the way of the car and golf cart , yet allow it to be dropped to floor level at the bottom. Using cpvc will make the entire cage pretty light to lift on the screen top point as a hinge area.