Minimum distance to net?

Hi.

I'm in the unfortunate situation that in my golf room, I simply do not have more than 6 - 6.5 feet from the ball, to the screen I'm hitting in to.

I was therefor wondering if a kind R10 user would perhaps try out their unit indoors, with the ball placed no more than 6.5 feet from a hitting net, and report back to me if it works or not?
I know that Garmin recommends at least 8 feet, but I would just be very interested in hearing if the unit would in any way be accurate, even though the flight distance would be a bit shorter than the recommended 8 feet.

  • So 3.7 definitely fixed some of the shot variables for both indoor and outdoor. My set-up indoors is roughly 2mrtrs from the R10 to the ball and 2.5mtres  to the screen. The results are awesome. E6 seems to have it all over Garmin software. They can't even get Landscape yet. I'm guessing there is one almighty software up data on the way for that one. Every now and then I get a fade on a draw shot, I missed the spin I'm guessing snd only picks up the club path. Overall though, get the update done and test out some distances from the R10 to the ball. I think that's way more important than the ball to the screen. 

  • If you ever get the chance, would it be possible for you to test if it works and distances seem realistic, with only 6 - 6.5 feet from the ball to the screen? 

  • So that actually the way I set it up the first time. It didn’t work well. What I understood about that was. The 6.5 is the absolute minimum for the box the unit picks up. So really you need to be in the middle of that box. Which is more like 7 at a minimum hey.

  • I’m in my garage and have 8 ft to a white screen and have the R10 6 ft in back of me and my driver goes less than 200 yards on hth and 210 on E6. I normally hit my driver 280-285 and the only club that comes close is my 5 iron on E6. It goes 185 consistently and no other club is close. I am on 3.7. Is your indoors setup on cement?  Everything in front of my tee to the screen is covered but I do have some cement between the R10 and the ball.

  • So I actually think that might have more to do with the ball flight. I found when it's hit low or read as low. The shot comes up short. I am usually a pretty consistent 280+ with driver and 250+ with 3W. My 3 wood still reads right but my driver tends to be low on numbers. Not all the time but often. The only variation in the shot is the height. 

  • I saw in a R10 FB group where someone said they adjusted the altitude to 6000 ft on the E6 and it was then spot on. I adjusted mine to 6000 then got a reading of 250 but still isn’t very close. It has to do with set up somewhere.  I’m going to continue to try different things.

  • Hello Esser. I’m exactly in the same situation as you were and wonder if you finally bought the R10 and if it worked for you?

    thank you in advance 

    Daniel 

  •  I have no issues with distance since owning it for last year aside from chipping in games but now fixed with 4.3version.  I hit driver 6 feet from net and back to about 7.5 feet for other clubs.

  • Thank you very much for this, super helpful!

    could I ask you what distance is the unit behind the ball?

    thank you again

    Dan

  • My R10 is set up in my shop which has a wood furnace on the other end.  After some testing I determined that when the fan from the furnace was running I got considerably shorter distances then when the fan was off.  A 7 iron shot with the fan on showed 128 yards.  Turned the fan off and the next shot was 163.  12 feet from net to ball, 6 feet from ball to R10.  I tried further away (up to 9 feet from ball ro R10)  but 6 feet behind the ball seems to work best for me.  Be aware of things in your room that could cause interference.  Also, just because the base is level doesn't mean the top of the unit is level side to side. Learned that the hard way.  Now I taped a string level on top of my R10 so I can make sure it's perfectly level side to side.  I think everyone has their own environment to figure out.  I really like the product now that I'm more confident of the distances.  It makes hitting into a net a lot more interesting!!!