Meyton electronics
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 41 ″ N , 8 ° 27 ′ 37.7 ″ E
| Meyton Electronics GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | May 1991 |
| Seat | Melle Bruchmühlen , Germany |
| Branch | Electronic measuring systems for shooting sports |
| Website | www.meyton.info/de |
The Meyton Elektronik GmbH is a German company based in Melle-Bruchmühlen and leading manufacturer of electronic measurement systems for the shooting sports . Meyton was the first manufacturer to measure using light barriers.
history
The theoretical idea of determining the shot value using an LED light barrier was developed by Ewald Etgeton back in the 1980s. Electronics technician Paul Meyer helped implement this idea and shortly afterwards a first prototype was tested at a local shooting club. It was then in 1991 by Mey he and Etge ton the Meyton Elektronik GmbH in Mettingen founded. Shortly afterwards, Udo Witte joined as a computer scientist and third man.
In 2000 the company formed the full-time basis for all three and the two founders, Meyer and Etgeton, withdrew from the company. Udo Witte took over the post as managing director. In 2002 the headquarters were relocated to Melle-Bruchmühlen.
Products
Meyton manufactures electronic measuring systems for shooting sports.
construction
The system consists of at least two basic components:
- Measuring frame and
- Control PC
Meyton relies on Linux for the operating systems of all control PCs and main computers, on the one hand to save license costs and on the other hand because it is easy to adapt. In this way the control PCs get by with a 300 MHz CPU .
If several stands are connected to one system, additional components can be added:
- Main computer (with openSUSE as operating system),
- Network and
- one or more network switches (depending on the number of booths)
Measurement method
The measurement to determine the shot value proceeds as follows:
- The projectile fired by a weapon flies through the measuring frame.
- It interrupts the light barriers of the X and Y axes. The zero point of this coordinate system is in the middle of the measuring frame and thus also in the absolute center of the pane.
- The determined coordinates are forwarded to the control PC .
- The control PC calculates the shot value from the data received and displays it graphically to the shooter.
- Furthermore, the control PC sends this information to the main computer so that it can later create lists of results from it.
Many shooters criticized the fact that the rings of the target are not round, but angular due to digital technology. In fact, it can happen that the rings on the screen do not appear round in the graphic display. But the determination of the exact shot value is based on the distance between the shot and the center of the target. This distance is determined using the Pythagorean theorem . In this way, the direct distance between the shot and the center of the target is always calculated. The ISSF and the German Schützenbund have tables showing which shot value is available at which distance from the shot. This ensures that the same conditions apply to all shooters.
distribution
The Meyton measuring system is used in most of the state performance centers of the shooting associations:
- Bad Kreuznach from the State Sports Center for Sport Shooting RLP (supported by the Sport Shooting Association Rhineland, Sport Shooting Association Rheinhessen and the Palatinate Sport Shooting Association )
- Berlin from the Berlin-Brandenburg Rifle Association
- Dortmund from the Westphalian Schützenbund
- Frankfurt am Main from the Hessian Rifle Association
- Hanover from the Lower Saxony Sport Shooting Association
- Pforzheim from the Landesleistungszentrum Sportschießen BW (supported by the Badischer Sportschützenverband , Württembergischer Schützenverband and Südbadischer Schützenverband )
- Pfreimd from the Upper Palatinate Schützenbund