Found out last night the auxiliary battery pack works to charge a cell phone. You guys probably already knew that. We were out off power and phone was getting low. Power is back on for now but winds are still raging.

I use an Anker battery pack to run my Labrador, it is intended to charge cell phones……….

Yup the USB standard doesn't care what's on either end of the cable very much. I've got a couple power bricks and they're handy for the Labradar, hunting/camping where you want to be sure you can make a call even in the cold, and emergencies..

I use a cordless mattress air pump to cool the bore between groups. It usually doesn't have enough battery life to last the 3hr shooting session. I stuck a USB Y adapter in my LabRadar ext battery and it easily runs both.

That's a good idea. I;ve got one of those fan chamber flags that someone gave me, but it doesn't move enough air to get the job done much faster than just waiting.

Last two years I ran an external battery which would charge a cell phone or start a truck. I don't understand the engineering but twice it fried a circuit or chip in my Labradar. Labradar, twice warranteed it, saying it was a one in a million chance it would happen once but twice? They told me to get a difference external battery as they would not warrantee it a 3rd time. I got the exact same battery they sell on there website.

Alan

Milwaukee M-18 cordless tool battery and aftermarket USB adapter....

Hey that looks nifty. Where'd ya get that? Does that serve as a base for the unit as well? Looks like it might. Save me having to lug another tripod to the range.

No, the battery just sits on my homemade base. A chunk of Corian with a ballhead screwed to it.....

This my solution.

I use a similar battery and USB adapter, but the Makita version. My case is also the stand.

Thanks to you both. Got my wheels spinning over here.

Great ideas, thanks for sharing.

I'd be careful with those big batteries....so careful I'd never hook one to mine.

It's OK, LFC. It is safe, as long as you wear your mask......


Or, you could suit up in a full-blown rubber acid suit in case that pesky 'big battery' decides to explode all over you. But don't forget a faceshield and hip boots. A guy can never be 'so careful...... Good fugging grief......

I was surprised how well the Labradar external battery holds up in the cold. Last week it was in the mid teens. I was at the range for four hours. Only got down to 68%.

I line the Corian idea better than the steel plate that LabRadar sells... lighter. Good idea.

Great minds think alike...

Made with a piece of ½" thick UHMW nylon. Mount is from one of those free tripods you get when you buy some spotting scopes, good for precision adjustments. Sony portable power pack/cell phone charger supplements the internal batteries

I guess you guys missed this.

His power pack is the problem...

I've been running my Labradar for over five years with the power pack I've described without any issues. That's including capturing 25 plus shot strings during prone matches. YMMV

Haha god damn er Don!! 😂😂

Here's a trick. Don't shoot over a target backer to get to a further target. The close target backer will scatter the radar and you won't get a velocity. Here I'm shooting at the 100 yd target but the 25 yd back is scattering the radar.

Make sure it's not set on doppler

“Doppler” is simply one of the trigger modes of the Labradar but the unit uses doppler radar for its readings no matter what trigger mode you’re using. As soon as the unit sees a velocity (a doppler shift), it starts doing its thing. In this case, it’s a doppler shift on an “opening” target. It’s not actually seeing the bullet, it’s seeing the frequency shift of the radar that’s being reflected off the base of the bullet.

I'm no radar X'spurt....although I have been X rayed a couple times.

Just passing on what the guy from Labradar told me....

Use the trigger setting for high powder rifles.

If I heard him right he said trigger setting causes the radar to activate when It feels the percussion.

Doppler is a setting used for big slow moving objects it activates when an object passes through its path....he said not to use the Doppler setting on high powered rifles.

Feel free to correct me like i said I'm not a radar X'spurt.

You fellers from Mississippi sound pretty smart about your radar...

You tend to learn a lot about radars in 20+ years of performing aircraft intercepts. While teaching new RIO’s how to recognize and get around jamming, chaff, etc., using aircraft pulse, pulse doppler and track-while-scan radars you had to know how they work and what they’re showing you. 😊

I like to position the unit back far enough, normally beside the receiver, that I can manipulate the buttons without getting up. I was missing readings with the unit that far aft when I initially used the normal “trigger” mode so I switched to the “doppler” trigger. Works better for me.

It's very simple. The triggered setting uses less battery power by only activating the radar emission when a muzzle blast is detected. Doppler setting, in contrast, enables radar emission constantly, which is necessary for projectiles that cannot produce a blast large enough to trigger the unit. The downside to "doppler" mode is that it consumes more battery power.

In Labradar skool they teach you how to operate it from your cell phone.

Labradar stopped selling the plate.

I asked them why and they told me that if a guy was shooting prone low to the ground the unit wouldn't pic up the reading so they stopped offering the flat plate and only offer the tripod.

That's what he said.

I'm sure someone will be along shortly to argue about what he said.

I shoot prone alla time with the corian plate and never miss a reading. I even use the plate from a bench. Just slide the other bench over and set it on that.......

lol...

I have the plate and shoot prone most often. I originally wondered if the unit that close to the ground would cause problems, but have been doing it successfully for three years now.

If I understand you correctly.......even when the unit is "armed" I assume it is transmitting, but when in trigger mode and armed it still requires the muzzle blast to trigger the radar. What is being triggered once it is armed?

When it is armed it is waiting for a trigger event, but is not transmitting yet.

Got it.
Thanks Jordan!

I would guess it would depend on how flat the ground was....just a guess.

The plate comes with a ball type head that can be adjusted to keep the unit squared up regardless of the angle the plate is sitting.

You being from Colorado I figure you must not have seen too much flat ground....

Here tell Able Ammo had some Labradars today....