Disc Beeper Caught on Film!

[BogeyNoMore]

Good one!

I'm going to compare a few floating drivers and see which one I want to use. I have a dragon, and I ordered a Lightning #2 Driver and a Quest Ultra Long Range Driver. So I expect to use the disc beeper on one of those.

Are there any other premium plastic, max weight drivers that float, besides the Quest Ultra Long Range Driver?

From Innova's website: Testing indicates that models under 140 grams are light enough to float in water!


My bad, just realized you said "max weight." I honed in on the "premium plastic" part of that sentence.

 

[skurf]

I don't think I've ever found a disc over 200' from where I've thought it was. Maybe I'm special?

That's because the ones over 200' were the ones you lost^^

 

[beereakfast]

The ability to lose discs seems to increase with the distance one can throw. I have yet to lose a disc but....
I love the idea anyway.

 

[BogeyNoMore]

The ability to lose discs seems to increase with the distance one can throw. I have yet to lose a disc but....
I love the idea anyway.

Sorry to say, but it's just a matter of time...

Is there anyone out there who's been playing 2 or more years who's never lost a disc?

 

[smarkquart]

In the last three years I have lost:

2 to snow
2 to a river
1 to a blind spot where there is tall grass
1 in tall grass/reeds even though I saw it land
1 was stolen while I was picking up after unloading on a practice hole
1 because the thumber got away from me and ducked into a blind spot
1 kicked off a small tree into a small collection of trees where it had no business being lost
2 to the drainage ditch that runs the length of BRP
2 to the deep, man-made water hazard on Hole 22 at BRP
1 to a stream that was swollen because of torrential rains two days earlier but normally would not be deep

Only four were not drivers. All shots were at least 200 feet, if not more. Most I could probably get within 50 feet of where it was lost. Of the ones lost in snow, they were actually good shots in the middle of the fairway. I am sure a beeping disc would have detered the thieves (especially if they would have claimed it was an accident because they thought they were picking up their discs).

The beeping would have saved me approximately no less than fours of my life looking for some of these discs, especially the ones lost in the snow or in the tall grass. However, there is no one type of disc that is consistently lost. Three were mids and it is about 50/50 in regards to fairway versus distance drivers. Of those lost are included Valkyries, Firebirds, Axis, Buzzz, Ghost, Ascents, Sidewinders, Giants, and Leopards.

 

[prerube]

I would definitely put it on an anhyzer disc. Those are the ones I lose the most lol

Anhyzer is not a disc, it is a release angle. You can anhyzer a firebird.

 

[prerube]

2:1 odds you put this on a disc that cost less than the beeper.
5:1 odds the beeping gets so annoying you do not use it on every throw
10:1 someones dog will take your beeping disc

Why use it on a floater, usually you see a floater in the water, beeping does not help return the disc to shore.

 

[steve a]

2:1 odds you put this on a disc that cost less than the beeper.
5:1 odds the beeping gets so annoying you do not use it on every throw
10:1 someones dog will take your beeping disc

Why use it on a floater, usually you see a floater in the water, beeping does not help return the disc to shore.

The beeping helps the Diver's remote control submarine find the disc with it's sonar

 

[ambroze]

I watched one of the videos that said you have to allow the adhesive tape to set for 72 hours so this eliminates any chances of switching this beeper to a different disc. I'm not seeing the point of putting something on a disc that costs more than the disc itself unless it's some special disc or one I just cannot afford to lose.

I'm thinking that one day maybe the discs themselves will have some microchip already built into the disc that will come with some kind of remote way of tracking it either by your phone or some other handheld device that you can manually trigger to sound off the alert without it constantly beeping and annoying other players or yourself. I do like the concept but I'll pass. Good find.

 

[ambroze]

Well similar to this for ball golf - http://www.radargolf.com/products/bps_technology.asp

I watched one of the videos that said you have to allow the adhesive tape to set for 72 hours so this eliminates any chances of switching this beeper to a different disc. I'm not seeing the point of putting something on a disc that costs more than the disc itself unless it's some special disc or one I just cannot afford to lose.

I'm thinking that one day maybe the discs themselves will have some microchip already built into the disc that will come with some kind of remote way of tracking it either by your phone or some other handheld device that you can manually trigger to sound off the alert without it constantly beeping and annoying other players or yourself. I do like the concept but I'll pass. Good find.

 

[gosaints]

Anhyzer is not a disc, it is a release angle. You can anhyzer a firebird.

And if I threw a Firebird with anhyzer regularly that would make it my anhyzer disc. Smarty pants.

 

[DaddyTookTeebirdAway]

Sorry to say, but it's just a matter of time...

Is there anyone out there who's been playing 2 or more years who's never lost a disc?

In 8 years of playing I've lost 2 discs. None in the last 4 years. Mostly because I am relentless at looking for them. This past December I lost 2 discs on the same hole in 6 inches of snow. I came back 3 times over the course of a week to search and eventually found them both.

As for the beeper, I'd rather just spend the $20 on replacing a lost disc than having to listen to that thing beep for 2 hours.

 

[prerube]

And if I threw a Firebird with anhyzer regularly that would make it my anhyzer disc. Smarty pants.

wrong. a disc can not be an anhyzer. That is like saying you are throwing your falling putter.

 

[jermlac]

There is an online website that sells a product called the annoyatron. The concept is that it beeps once every few seconds and in an office space or bedroom, you cannot locate the beeping noise.

This should be an interesting review.

 

[PMcBeth]

wrong. a disc can not be an anhyzer. That is like saying you are throwing your falling putter.

WRONG lighting has multiple anhyzer discs #1 anhyzer #2 anhyzer ect.

 

[DiscChainBasket18]

Pretty close but not quite there!

Not PDGA approved yet so we cant use it in a tourney :\
For me to buy it:
1) It needs to be way smaller, thinner profile, etc. Overall less obtrusive (less affect on disc flight).
2) Simpler design.
3) It needs to cost a whole lot less.

 

[DaddyTookTeebirdAway]

wrong. a disc can not be an anhyzer. That is like saying you are throwing your falling putter.

By calling it an anhyzer disc, he means a disc he uses for anhyzers. If I have a pair of painting pants, I call them that because they are pants I wear when I paint. The pants themselves don't paint and aren't made of paint, yet it's acceptable for me to call them painting pants.

 

[Martin Dewgarita]

I've had a few discs lost on mountain courses where I couldn't give myself a 200' radius with any certainty of where I thought my disc might be...

 

[knettles]

I wouldn't put it on a floater because you can usually see a floater disc where it lands in the water. I think the best disc would be a long range driver you would use on a wide open hole with tall grass off to the sides. The last disc I lost was on the 1000 footer hole at Idlewild in that exact situation. I can usually find one that drops in the woods. It's alot harder for one that goes 300+ feet, then lands in 4 foot tall grass.

 

[Skankin77]

For 20 dollars I would rather replace the disc I lost than attach an obnoxious beeping object on to my flying projectile.