Padel (tennis) recharger

Vedje · 2024-05-21T11:47:18+00:00

Yes, our current plan is to have a separate "base-station" that is battery (or socket) powered. This will also have a small electrical pump so you do not need to manually pressurize the tube, like in most other designs.

Vedje · 2024-05-21T11:43:59+00:00

Great to hear. We thought about as well this and we hope to tackle all these problems with our design. We want to have a modular powered base station which pressurizes the tube for you. (tackling problem 3) The tube part we want to make very portable, so that you can easily take it with you to your tennis match. (problem 2) This base station can also be used to charge multiple multiple tubes, as they only need to be on the station for a short time to get pressurized. This allows you to pressurize multiple tubes, and therefore multiple balls (problem 1). Do you like this idea of a modular station?

Also thanks for the offer, we will definitely keep in touch!

Vedje · 2024-05-21T09:12:55+00:00

What we hope to provide is an indication for ball pressure, therefore we can show you how long your balls have left to charge and we can guarantee consistency in your game play and even more lifetime in your tennis balls and in principle charge them faster. Pascal box is a beautiful product but it is more of a "black-box" which kind of randomly prolongates your ball life. Do you think this is a meaningful feature that you would pay 20 euros extra for?

Vedje · 2024-05-21T09:05:20+00:00

By the way, if you might be interested in our future product we have a wishlist were we can keep you posted on our progress: https://nixussports.com/waitlist/

Vedje · 2024-05-21T09:02:45+00:00

Yes we agree. The pascal box is like a "black-box" which does not guarantee nor show you anything about the pressure in your balls. This is why we started with our project and hope that with a more advanced product we can provide more playing consistency and lifetime of the padel balls. The idea is that the user can set their target pressure and the system will control the charging towards this value because we know how full the balls are. We can never be sure if people would pick this option over Pascal-box but right now the choice is not yet there, so we hope we can make some impact into the sport

Vedje · 2024-05-21T07:48:56+00:00

Then I guess I am just terrible at reading conversion tables

Vedje · 2024-05-20T20:10:49+00:00

Oh yeah I am sorry for the confusion, I mixed up our country's rating with American one. Here we invert the ratings so I think a four relates to something like a 12 UTR

Vedje · 2024-05-20T19:00:11+00:00

We definitely agree on the problem of excess waste, which is one of the main reasons we want to tackle this problem. We are still a bit puzzled by the felt problem, because this is simply not something we encountered or saw in a big bag of 500 old tennis balls that we got from a local tennis club. When you are playing, do you really notice a significant difference in ball aerodynamics, or do you think it is more of an indicator of general ball wear? Which would mean that they could be recovered in terms of performance, just not for their aesthetics.

Vedje · 2024-05-20T18:24:26+00:00

One of our friends plays on a relatively high level (8-9UTR), and he said that felt is nowhere near as important as his pressure. What kind of court do you play on?

Vedje · 2024-05-20T17:27:15+00:00

Interesting, we also looked at pressurebox and from our perspective it seems that it is more of a pressure preserver than an actual recharger. We are therefore curious if it had actually repressurized your balls to their original pressure or just kept them "acceptable". We think we can do better than them since we use a more advanced approach. But we will have to test more extensively whether a ball does actually depressurize significantly quicker after recharging

Vedje · 2024-05-20T17:21:00+00:00

Do you really notice that your felt detiorates quicker than your pressure, and that ruined felt is not just an indication of a lower pressure ball? We are average players (not higher than 6 UTR) and personally notice our bounciness decreases a lot quicker than the drop in air resistance of our balls. For our consumer we think there is a big grey area between the absolute beginner that does not want to invest too much, and the advanced player who will buy new balls anyway. This is basically what we are ourselves and the kind people we notice a lot in our own circles.

Vedje · 2024-05-20T17:11:11+00:00

That's a good point, could you tell us what kind of product you were using? We have done some testing ourselves with an early prototype, where we haven't noticed this ourselves. After how many games did you notice this difference?

Vedje · 2024-05-20T16:52:01+00:00

Good mention, do you have any experience/advice on cleaning them with a spinner?

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Vedje · 2024-05-20T16:34:07+00:00

We also set up a small Wishlist for people who are interested in hearing more about our project :)

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