Rob wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2023 5:04 am
It's super easy to setup, and inexpensive. Is an optical sensor not affected by ambient light?
The Drone trigger optical driver/sensor I have is set up on the base of my hi hat. The reflector is attached to the hi hat footboard.
Here's an image of the configuration from the seller:
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So far I've only connected it to my Pearl Mimic Pro and have had no issues with ambient light interference. It was extremely easy to set up. I happened to have the Iron Cobra hi hat that KitToys (aka Drone) used in his own setup. The offset for the reflector plate was perfect. I'm going to to connect it to my eDRUMin tomorrow. It seems to me either the optical sensor or a hall effect sensor would be about equivalent in performance, but the hall effect sensor does not require aux power which the optical sensor does to power the light source. So it's simpler. I think it's worth my trying a hall effect sensor for its simplicity, but I really appreciated the plug-and-play of the Drone optical kit i purchased on eBay.
To your point, I, too, was a bit surprised that the optical sensor worked so well, but I am only using it in my studio with static (mostly) lighting. I wonder how it might fare, for example, in an outdoor gig. The other two optical hi hats I have used (EFNOTE hi hats, EFNOTE pedal and an ATV hi hat) all have the optical sensor protected in an enclosure of sorts which I assumed was to protect (shade) them from ambient light. Perhaps that's not necessary.