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Just wondering if anyone has used personal launch monitors? I know that the GC2 and Trackman etc are all very expensive and generally out of the status quo' price range. I'm looking at buying the ES12/14 for use at the range/home. Not really looking for spin rates and all the really in depth info a monitor is generally used for, more so just to get an accurate average per club for carry distance. Any help would be appreciated.

 

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I have the es12 works pretty good. I compared it to Trackman the other day and the carry distance were wishing 2-3 yards of each other

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I believe EA Sports will be releasing a new ES15 next week at the PGA Show. I'm curious to see it, as I was interested in the ES14

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For me my sc100 and zepp are perfect for practicing at the range. Helps me compare clubs, gap clubs and gets my swing working great. If i want video, just setup my ipad.

 

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Just wondering if anyone has used personal launch monitors? I know that the GC2 and Trackman etc are all very expensive and generally out of the status quo' price range. I'm looking at buying the ES12/14 for use at the range/home. Not really looking for spin rates and all the really in depth info a monitor is generally used for, more so just to get an accurate average per club for carry distance. Any help would be appreciated.

 

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]Skytrac, Best bang for the Buck.. Hands down

 

I don't disagree that SkyTrak has a lot to offer but IMO the operation and software are probably six months away from allowing it to be a polished product.

 

Issues include, the ongoing subscription model, the reality what lies behind the subscription especially for practice is not very well implemented. Lastly the subscription licience is currently retained in the software on the actual SkyTrack unit, this means the unit needs to be switched on to validate the licence when simply reviewing previous session. I also had permission issues at the range preventing access to the subscription features, which was very frustrating.

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Just wondering if anyone has used personal launch monitors? I know that the GC2 and Trackman etc are all very expensive and generally out of the status quo' price range. I'm looking at buying the ES12/14 for use at the range/home. Not really looking for spin rates and all the really in depth info a monitor is generally used for, more so just to get an accurate average per club for carry distance. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Cheers

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Haven't heard of Skytrac, will look it up! Thanks

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Just wondering if anyone has used personal launch monitors? I know that the GC2 and Trackman etc are all very expensive and generally out of the status quo' price range. I'm looking at buying the ES12/14 for use at the range/home. Not really looking for spin rates and all the really in depth info a monitor is generally used for, more so just to get an accurate average per club for carry distance. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Cheers

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Didn't realise it was $2000! Was looking for something around the $300-$400 mark.

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I believe EA Sports will be releasing a new ES15 next week at the PGA Show. I'm curious to see it, as I was interested in the ES14

 

The ES 15 is a driving range product, the new model is the ES 16 but it is in the Flightscope Xi/Xi+ category.

 

Thanks, I didn't realize that.

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Questions about the ES 12 and SC 100:

 

Since it measures off of ball speed, if you use crappy range balls will it return crappy distances? I guess the real question here is the ball speed of a range ball significantly different from a premium ball just after impact?

 

Also, can you seriously not adjust for the loft of your irons? This seems like a huge issue if you are unable to tell the machine what loft your PW is. I don't see this mentioned in any reviews.

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Questions about the ES 12 and SC 100: Since it measures off of ball speed, if you use crappy range balls will it return crappy distances? I guess the real question here is the ball speed of a range ball significantly different from a premium ball just after impact? Also, can you seriously not adjust for the loft of your irons? This seems like a huge issue if you are unable to tell the machine what loft your PW is. I don't see this mentioned in any reviews.

 

You can not change the loft in the ES12. It is based off of presets, which are as follows.

 

 

The lofts for the ES12 are:

Iron Degrees

Drv 10.5

3Wd 13

5Wd 16

Hyb 19

2Ir 17

3 19

4 22

5 25

6 29

7 33

8 37

9 42

P 46

G 50

S 55

L 60

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Awesome thanks. Just what I was looking for. I wonder why they do it that way. Surely it can't be that expensive or complicated to allow the user to input their own lofts?

 

Seems like a deal breaker to me

 

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I believe EA Sports will be releasing a new ES15 next week at the PGA Show. I'm curious to see it, as I was interested in the ES14

 

The ES 15 is a driving range product, the new model is the ES 16 but it is in the Flightscope Xi/Xi+ category.

 

Flightscope tracks the ball and club and measures all parameters measured by Trackman or Flightscope X2. They just don't report them on the Xi models.

 

ES 16 does not track the ball until it lands nor any other measurements of the club other than AOA.

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You might want to consider an old vector pro in your $500 price range. Pain to set up but pretty good accuracy on the important variables :

 

* ballspeed

* spin

* launch

 

Early ES models (before the ES16) don't measure spin or launch but just predict it for a standard player.

 

Or maybe you can pick up a used Skytrak for $800 - $1000. this will be very accurate on these variables

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Is there anything cheap that does a good job with spin and ball speed that's accurate?

 

Cheap is relative, that being said spin is a tricky one. The cheapest device I know of that will give you pretty accurate ball data has been mentioned it is a used Vector Pro (or X). I doubt you will find a combination of accuracy and affordability at the ebay price point of the Vector's.

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Can anyone list what each gadget can actually do well? Accurately etc....

 

I think that the first step for evaluating any monitor is to understand what each monitor measures vs. what it calculates.

 

I have a Skytrak and I am really happy with both its consistency and what I perceive to be accurate measurements of spin, ball speed, and launch angle. Some people didn't like their original ball flight algorithm with certain clubs, but I feel pretty good about what I see on the screen these days.

 

Lower-priced devices (ES12, ES14, Voicecaddie) only measure ballspeed. Through other reviews, I am pretty convinced that they do this accurately, but since launch angle and spin are fixed variables in their ballflight equations, they are not accurate. They don't know if you thinned a shot, for example. For them, they just take the ballspeed of that shot and plug it into their model. Skytrak (and those more expensive brands) sees that difference, however.

 

At the sub GC2 price point, I am happy with where I ended up.

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I won an ES14 in a giveaway here a little while back, you can find my thoughts on it here:

 

http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/1126317-winners-es14-es12-launch-monitors-from-ernest-sports-plus-promo-code/page__st__30#entry11008845

 

If you have any questions, I'll pop back into this thread and answer what I can.

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There aren't actually that many products,

 

Radar - Trackman, Flightscope

Photometric - GC2(Foresight), Skytrak (Rapsodo)

Radar & Photometric - ES16(Ernest Sports)

 

Radar measures both club and ball (outside!), most photometric give good ball data plus GC2 has an addon to give club data. There are pro's and con's to all of those I've listed. But the big takeaway from doing a bunch of research is this; if you are limited by space you are better off sticking to a Photometric monitor. That is about it. All of the big 3 (trackman, flightscope, GC2) do what they say they can do and do it well. The other two well are not proven yet.

 

I won't go into the cheaper devices as I don't consider these to be launch monitors. They can do a good job at measuring ball speed (especially the SC-100) but that is about it. Ball speed != launch monitor regardless of what kind of algorithm you feed that speed into to give you made up numbers. I also didn't go into all the other simulator devices which can give very good data as well.

 

Check out golfsimulatorforum.com for more info into some of these other devices.

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Is there anything cheap that does a good job with spin and ball speed that's accurate?

 

Cheap is relative, that being said spin is a tricky one. The cheapest device I know of that will give you pretty accurate ball data has been mentioned it is a used Vector Pro (or X). I doubt you will find a combination of accuracy and affordability at the ebay price point of the Vector's.

 

I would LOVE IT if what you said is actually true because I just bought a used Vector Pro at the end of last year, and I haven't had the opportunity to use it yet. However, from my understanding, it doesn't do a great job of either ball speed or spin. I didn't buy it for that capability. But if it is even in the ballpark for either of these I would be happy, but I suspect it isn't.

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Is there anything cheap that does a good job with spin and ball speed that's accurate?

 

Cheap is relative, that being said spin is a tricky one. The cheapest device I know of that will give you pretty accurate ball data has been mentioned it is a used Vector Pro (or X). I doubt you will find a combination of accuracy and affordability at the ebay price point of the Vector's.

 

I would LOVE IT if what you said is actually true because I just bought a used Vector Pro at the end of last year, and I haven't had the opportunity to use it yet. However, from my understanding, it doesn't do a great job of either ball speed or spin. I didn't buy it for that capability. But if it is even in the ballpark for either of these I would be happy, but I suspect it isn't.

 

All it does is give you ball data. Spin and Ball speed are basically all it does. The vector guys are the tech behind the Skytrak well the tech part not Skygolf's piss poor roll out, customer service, or terrible SDK.

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There aren't actually that many products,

 

Radar - Trackman, Flightscope

Photometric - GC2(Foresight), Skytrak (Rapsodo)

Radar & Photometric - ES16(Ernest Sports)

 

Radar measures both club and ball (outside!), most photometric give good ball data plus GC2 has an addon to give club data. There are pro's and con's to all of those I've listed. But the big takeaway from doing a bunch of research is this; if you are limited by space you are better off sticking to a Photometric monitor. That is about it. All of the big 3 (trackman, flightscope, GC2) do what they say they can do and do it well. The other two well are not proven yet.

 

I won't go into the cheaper devices as I don't consider these to be launch monitors. They can do a good job at measuring ball speed (especially the SC-100) but that is about it. Ball speed != launch monitor regardless of what kind of algorithm you feed that speed into to give you made up numbers. I also didn't go into all the other simulator devices which can give very good data as well.

 

Check out golfsimulatorforum.com for more info into some of these other devices.

 

So what would work in limited space? Say my garage ?

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