Best Tablets for ETs

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AlexE
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Best Tablets for ETs

#1 Postby AlexE » Tue Sep 11, 2018 5:35 pm

Hello again, gentlemen

I have been contacted by my club president who is putting together a grant application for ETs for our range. Can anyone give some tips on what are good tablets to use? Specifically ones that are friendly with old(er) eyes? There is already a bit of negative sentiment about the prospect of changing over from manual targets, so I don't want to end up with tablets that are hard to see in sunlight, have poor contrast or are too small.

Put another way - what tablets do you use on your ETs, and do you recommend them?

Cheerio
Alex

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Re: Best Tablets for ETs

#2 Postby disb » Tue Sep 11, 2018 9:10 pm

I use an old MacBook Air
Others at the club use Samsung’s or iPads - owned personally.
The “club” bought a cheap one for every one to use but it’s hard to read and has poor battery life.

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Re: Best Tablets for ETs

#3 Postby DannyS » Tue Sep 11, 2018 9:42 pm

The Tablets that Hexta use can be sourced 2nd hand on the net.
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Re: Best Tablets for ETs

#4 Postby BillB » Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:23 am

Like Danny has posted he gog somdd for Portland and we use them on Silver Mountain

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Re: Best Tablets for ETs

#5 Postby saum2 » Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:31 am

DannyS wrote:The Tablets that Hexta use can be sourced 2nd hand on the net.

Hi Danny, Where 2nd hand ? a link would be handy as we need a couple for our SM. or PM me.
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Re: Best Tablets for ETs

#6 Postby Tim N » Wed Sep 12, 2018 2:25 pm

I'm thinking panadol may help
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Re: Best Tablets for ETs

#7 Postby DannyS » Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:27 pm

Hi Geoff, I was able to source 10 or so on eBay. Had a mate re programme them for me. Bruce Sergeant got some off me, as did some club mates and Bill Bouyack bought the last lot from my seller. With postage, I ended up paying about $30 each. They were also a slightly later model than our Hexta ones as they have touch screens.

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