Chrony│Inexpensive Alternate Lights for Indoor Low Light Shooting│F1 Chronograph

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon
Upgrade to the latest Flash Player for improved playback performance. Upgrade now or more info.
2,537
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Feb 17, 2011

Inexpensive alternative light source for to the F1 Chrony. Found these Sylvania "Dot-it" LED lights at Home Depot for $5 each. Used a Neodymum magnet to hold them onto the diffusers. Works great for shooting indoors like a basement, in a garage or anywhere sunlight isn't available.

Please note that ANY florescent lighting in the same room as the Chrony will result in errors. The "flicker" of florescent lights while not visible to the eye is picked up by the Chrony sensors.

Thanks for watching!

  • likes, 0 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:

Uploader Comments (shield400)

  • Dude, I'm glad I saw your video on YouTube. I repeated the same setup on my F1 Chrony (although I used velcro to hold the pucks instead of magnets). It's such a brilliant inexpensive solution. Many thanks for this effective money-saving tip.

  • @bombaytiger Awesome! Glad I could help & thank for the comment.

  • Very good idea, I am wondering, is it not too bright to the photocells? Have you tried it indoors? Thanks

  • @rfuret Thank you! I've been using this setup to shoot in my basement all winter and it has worked out beautifully. I did get a very small percentage of errors when using the shorter rods with the LED lights close to the photocells. I found that using the extended rods with the diffusers higher up fixed this and worked flawlessly.

  • Nice!! The lights they sell 4 these are WAY overpriced & probably less effective than this..

  • @royweeks1 Thanks! I agree the Chrony light are expensive plus they need to be plugged in. I've read that they can get hot and melt the diffuser if left on too long. These LED pucks really do a great job.

see all

All Comments (17)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • dude thank you so much for the idea i was using two car head lights attached to a car battery for my indoor testing it work but it was heavy and hard to set up this is a much better deal im going to try it out once again thank you

  • MR. Enstien!!!

    i was going to buy the chrony light.then, i saw ur video hell ..........yeah work great

    thanks man.

  • do you know why you have both 2 and 4 rod options?

  • thats excellent. i presume that battery operated LED lights have no flicker. Great i'll do this. only sad thing is i bought my chrony yesterday..today i shot it.still works though. they should improve the design and put metal plating in front of the sensor housings. i will make my own in the meantime

  • Wow - thanks for saving me $40.

  • Great trick ! I tried it and it worked fine!

    However it only worked with 2 rods on each diffuser. When i tried with 4 rods i was getting error all the time.

    Also you can use rubber bands instead of magnets.

    Well done !

    Very convenient and inexpensive.

  • yep, i got light emiting diode lights also when they fist cam out i started useing them, incadescent light only. many years ago i made mistake of useing shop light (florescent) because of its flicker rate it messes up readings, or error 1 displays on chrony quite often or error 2

  • Ok, I am going to buy a set of lights and try it at the range Saturday. thanks for you kind attention.

Loading...
Alert icon
0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more