Aerial Assist High Goal LEDs

[MoHottaMoBetta]

Originally Posted by bhylak

The specs for the LEDs say 6.56 candela per LED but I've yet to find a beam width that I could use to convert to lumen. I think that it changes depending on the lens that it is using, but I have yet to find any info on the lens that will be used.

You can find technical details of the strips in their spec sheets ( http://www.colorkinetics.com/support..._SpecSheet.pdf ). They discuss intensity, viewing angle, etc.

Originally Posted by bhylak

I wonder what the equivalent would be in a fixed yellow led strip? Without this information, I'm not sure
how they expect us to do any type of targeting.

I dont see that asked in the FIRST Q&A system. Have you asked there? Without some specifics on what "Yellow" should be, targeting just that that will require some flexibility on your part.

We wanted to do the same thing but without more details its not something we feel can be done reliably and consistently at all regionals.

Has anyone tried mocking up a system using cheaper LED strips and using that?

[geomapguy]

Honestly there is no reason to track the bulbs...

If you're concerned about doing HOT or NOT, use the vision targets on the left/right of each target.


The bulbs are just for show

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by geomapguy

Honestly there is no reason to track the bulbs...

If you're concerned about doing HOT or NOT, use the vision targets on the left/right of each target.


The bulbs are just for show

You could say the same thing about the vision targets. They're just for show; there's no reason to track the vision targets, you could just track the bulbs .

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by Hallry

You could say the same thing about the vision targets. They're just for show; there's no reason to track the vision targets, you could just track the bulbs .

Except that if you look at how the LEDs are used and positioned, it's quite clear that their primary purpose is for spectators and drivers to be able to tell how many assists have happened and whether the goal is hot. Really easy to see bright lights on from 100 feet away, really difficult to see a small, retroreflective rectangle at an oblique angle.

On a note more related to the original topic of this thread, my team (which builds a practice field every year for a Week 0 competition), decided to simplify the lights to a yellow strip across the top and three colored red or blue strips across the bottom, which lets us fulfill what we saw as the primary function (informing spectators and drivers with field cues). We understand that some teams at our Week 0 might not appreciate this, but frankly, dropping four grand on LEDs just wasn't in the budget this year.