GSA Advanced Golf Simulators: Circuit boards

These cameras are the standard cameras used in all GSA Golf CX products and systems

The cameras are registered and licensed to be used with all versions of the GSA Golf Control Panel

Price includes lens, camera mount, full version control panel software and 18 hole golf course software

Price includes lens, camera mount, full version control panel software for use as a video swing playback camera system for shot analysis.

Low distortion 3,5mm lens and lens adapter for GSA Golf cameras suitable for CX V and H cams .

Includes all IR LED panels (800 LEDS), power supplies, projector mount and cables

The WEme USB 3 16ft Extension Cable with Aluminum Alloy Housing is available on Amazon for $17.36

Individual 200 IR LED Lamps suitable for both the VisTrak and Stereo camera systems are available on Amazon.

At least 4 are required for the VisTrak camera and another 2 for the Spin cameras.

CTS Xenon flash units are rated to be good for 100,000 flashes before requiring replacement

Bower SFD728 CTS replacement Xenon flash units are available at any good photo store but will require power leads to be soldered to the battery terminals.

Price includes LED IR lighting, USB over CAT adapters with 25ft CAT cable, acrylic IR panels, blue LED acrylic edge lighting, mount and power supplies.

Cases include mounts, LEDs, RCA trigger signal connectors, camera GPIO cable and Lens hood

Wide angle 12 LED IR (wave length 850nm) Illuminator for CX cameraball tracking systems

These IR LED illuminators keep the enclosure dark so that projected screen image is best quality

Includes slotted grass panels with frame, base, acrylic glass panels, halogen lamps and cables

All screws supplied. Kit only requires drilling fixing holes and screwing together

Advanced mathmatical algorithms in the software calculate (not measure) ball spin and spin axis tilt

from the club-face angle, club path, loft and velocity which determines the ball flight curve

Fully assembled and tested with GSA Golf software suite including RedChain single course software and GSA Golf Control Panel

The replacement PX2 fiber grass front panel features pre-milled slots and is grass fiber trimmed to fit perfectly to your PX2 sensor mat

Fully assembled and tested with GSA Golf software suite including RedChain and E6 single course software and GSA Golf Control Panel

All screws supplied. Kit only requires drilling fixing holes and screwing together

Shadow sensor trigger mats are used for systems that require an overhead light source i.e. Ccam club tracking and Bcam ball spin cameras.

When the club or ball passes over the sensors, the resulting shadow will create a trigger signal to the cameras.

New "Line Scan Shot Detector" prevents inadvertent ball launches in game when retrieving balls

Occasionally inadvertent ball launches may occur when walking within the line scan area - usually to pick-up balls.

The addition of this new line scan camera placed halfway between the Hcam and hitting area will prevent this.

The "Line Scan Shot Detector" is used as a trigger gate that only allows the main line scan camera's trigger signal to pass through to the ball V and H cameras if an object passes through its FOV.

It can also be used to detect if someone is standing at or close to the hitting position and thus blocks the main trigger signal if no one is at the hitting mat.

New "Optical Sensor Shot Detector" prevents inadvertent ball launches in game when retrieving balls

A lower cost alternative to the line scan camera shot detection, is to use an optical sensor shot detector. This sensor is emedded in the hitting mat just in front of the ball launch position.

Up to 3 sensors can be used: one in the hitting mat for regular shots, one on green surface for putting and one for the rough or sand shots.

How it works: The RCA cable that is normally connected to the Vcam from the SX Line Scan camera is instead plugged into the Shot Detector and the output of the ShotDetector is plugged back into the Vcam.

In the Shot Detector's normal state, all trigger signals coming from the SX cam to the Vcam are then blocked.

The optical sensor - that is emdedded into the hitting mat just in front of the normal hitting position - detects the ball shadow as it passes over it when struck

This opens a Gate for around 3 seconds that allows the trigger signal coming from the SX cam to get back to the Vcam and thus the ball will launch in the software.

"Optical Sensor Shot Detector"

installation instructions

1.Disconnect the RCA connector from the Vcam camera and connect it to the "Input" of the shot detector

2. Connect the "output" of the shot detectors back into the Vcam

3. Drill a 1/2 inch hole into the hitting mat about 1 inch in front of the normal tee position of the hitting mat.

4. Cut any grass fibers back around the hole so that none obstruct light from the overhead lamp from getting onto the senor.

5. From the under side of the hitting mat, align the sensor so that it appears in the center of the hole and screw into place from the under side of the mat.

Drill 4 small pilot holes for the sensor circuit board into the mat first

6. Connect the USB connector on the unit to a 5v USB adapter or into a USB port on the PC.

Note: The shot detector is not supplied with the 50watt halogen lamp. These lamps are already supplied with CX3, CX4 and PX systems but not for CX2 systems.

If using a CX2 system then a 50 watt halogen lamp will be additionally required. Mount on ceiling directly over the mat so that light gets down onto the sensor.

When all is connected only the red power light will be ON on the unit.

When an object is passed over the sensor, the yellow light will switch ON for around 3 seconds allowing any trigger signals coming from the SX line scan camera to get to the Vcam.

As long as the yellow LED light is not on, no trigger signal will get to the Vcam and thus no launch will occur. i.e. when walking around in the enclosure or retrieving balls.

The new CTS flash sensor prevents the CTS from triggering flashes during a club waggle or when teeing up

The CTS flash sensor detects a club back swing and only then allows the flash unit to fire within a 3 second time window

Other than preventing possible annoying flashes, the CTS flash sensor extends the life of the flash unit 10 fold

The optional extra CTS flash controller prevents the CTS from triggering flashes during a club waggle or when teeing up

The CTS flash controller is a line scan camera that detects a club back swing and only then allows the flash unit to fire for a 3 second period

Other than preventing possible annoying flashes, the CTS flash controller extends the life of the flash unit 10 fold

If you want to use a Vcam with an older PX2 sensor mat that doesn't have a "Trig Out" cable on it then you can add this yourself.

The "Trig In" on the Vcam is a RCA connector that has the trigger signal on the inner side and the ground on the outer side of the connector.

Using a regular RCA audio cable of suitable length (e.g 10ft), cut the connector off one end of the cable and strip the cable so that the signal and ground wires are exposed.

Wire/solder the signal part of the cable to the solder pad next to the HC14 IC that is behind the tee position (i.e. left center of the circuit board) as shown above.

Wire the ground to the GND pad at the top left side of the circuit board (or any other ground pad). You may have to either add a 6 inch extension to the signal wire or the ground wire on the RCA cable to achieve this.

Note that in order to access the circuit board, the grass panels and the acrylic glass plate have to be first unscrewed and removed from the sensor mat.

Lay and secure the RCA cable on the circuit board or casing so that it does not block any of the sensors. Run the RCA cable either out of the side or the front of the mat.

In the Vcam window of the Control Panel, set a trigger delay of around 10 ms so that the club is not in the Vcam's field of view when striking a ball.

Please note: These spin dot balls only function with our Bcam and Qauntum ball spin cameras.

Purchasing these balls for use without using these cameras is a waste of money as they will not help in detecting ball spin.