Competition Electronics Indoor Light System

[gnappi]

I'm looking at the CE prochrono specifically for indoor use, but the fly in the ointment is needing either a L-O-N-G extension cord to be brought downrange or two 12 volt batteries in series. At an indoor range getting power to the chronograph is an issue, and lugging two small sealed 12 volt batteries is an additional pain.

I wrote CE asking about their use of UV lighting and the fact that it needs 24 volts to run and why they did not use binned color CREE LED's which can run on a 5 volt USB phone battery bank. Failing that why not a 12 volt IR LED or bright white LED string... no reply. 

So this lighting issue is a deal breaker for me.

I could rig up a 5 volt strip LED or 12 volt LED and or UV lighting system but I'm wondering if anyone has solved this 24 volt lighting issue. 

[Graybeard]

It's a lot more money, but have you considered the Labradar? I've been researching those for awhile now and Santa might just put one of those under my tree.

Another question to think about is what kind of lighting does the indoor range have? I mention that because we tend to forget that all 120v lights are actually flashing at 60hz. I've seen some units overcome that with auxiliary DC lights and some fail to work entirely. Depending on the type of lighting at the range, it too may emit some amount of UV that could be problematic.