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A6500 High Speed Capture With Flash - Issue With Delayed Flash (Need Help W/Program)

Started May 13, 2019 | Discussions thread
Willy79
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Re: A6500 High Speed Capture With Flash - Issue With Delayed Flash (Need Help W/Program)

mawyatt2002 wrote:

Hi William,

The sound is created by the air escaping from the ballon, thus the ballon has already burst by the time the sound trigger is detected as previously mentioned.

You can solve this problem with another sensor that is triggered slightly before the ballon burst, maybe an optical trigger that responds to the falling dart before it punctures the ballon.

Another simpler solution which requires no additional triggers and should work with your code, is simply place another ballon well above this ballon and allow the dart to puncture the top ballon first then fall thru and puncture this ballon. You can estimate the required delay time between the ballon bursts with simple physics of falling objects.

Hope this helps,

Best,

Thanks so much for the suggestions.  I really like the idea of a target before the balloon (I will try several things).  Although I also have a super simple solution that has moderate success (see below):

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