I’ve read where guys have had difficulty getting accurate crony readings because of weather, sun, clouds, rain etc., as I have and even shot their chrony (as I have too) so I built this platform years ago. It’s worked like a dream ever since.
However, my attempts to make fun videos for airgunners over the last year has suxed. Until just recently I had been using a hand-held video camera sometimes mounted on a tripod which worked great but the video editor Windows Movie Maker would occasionally trash and crash hours and hours of work.
At the Texas Airgun show Joe Wayne Rhea and I were talking about his videos and what type of editor he used. He suggested trying a free (my kinda price) app called Splice.
I decided to make a short video of something with substance and learn the app. I found the app very easy and hope to get back to some trouble-free shooting (video that is) ?
Thanks for watching!
In the video you say you have tried every possible light source.
Since most shadow sensors are designed around the Infra-Red section of the spectrum, I'm wondering if you have tried IR LED's.
Incandescent bulbs convert to visible light between 2 and 4% of fed power, the rest is heat (IR light). That's why you have found them to be reliable and consistent.
But IR LED's could do the job with 1/10 the wattage.
Keep well and shoot straight!
HM
I have my chrony (with tubular incandescent lights mounted on the diffusers) mounted on a tripod, that I can just place at the business side of my indoor shooting bench. That way, I can do accuracy testing and velocities at the same time. The whole thing probably weighs less than 15 lbs. I also advocate having thick Lexan shields in front of the sensitive parts of the chrony to protect from stray shots.
"But IR LED's could do the job with 1/10 the wattage."
I tried white, and red LED strips, but both were unreliable for me. Didn't try IR LEDs. I had the incandescent lights hanging around, and figured that for the little time that they were on, the extra Watts didn't matter that much.