Optical chronographs are dependent on lighting conditions. Radar chronographs, are more expensive, bulky, and heavy - until now. Inc. Sports Sensors took the doppler radar experience from their baseball Glove Radar and put it to use for paintball. Doppler radar emits a small burst of microwave energy, and then detects the changes in its frequency when it bounces off of a moving object. Sports Sensors reconfigured their software so that instead of measuring the speed of a baseball heading toward the sensor, it measures a paintball heading away.
Operation is simple.
Pressing the button again prepares it to take a new reading. Because the display is only two digits, it scrolls the paintball velocity. It first shows the 100s digit, followed by the tens and ones. The unit is packaged in a small padded storage case along with its double sided instruction page. Preproduction models were field tested by Russ Maynard, Dan Reeves, and Jessica Sparks who provided feedback about its use in a tournament environment.