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In the instructions it doesn't say that it uses the distance/time formula, it only talks about the way that it can sense the difference between the ball being in your hand, and the ball being in the air. I guess it deliberately avoids mentioning how simple it is. I gave it a proper go today at the nets and it seems to be totally dependant on where you pitch the ball.
Anyway, I set it on 16m and approximately measured out 16m. Unfortunately my tendency at that length was to bowl it too short. I got 104k and 106k, although they were if anything marginally full, while I was regularly 120 or more when I was a metre or so short (around about a good length). From the evidence so far I reckon I bowl 105-110, I might just be able to edge over 110 when I'm fresh, because I had been bowling to my mates for hours on end at this point. Earlier in the day I managed 116k off a ball that was maybe half a metre short.
My quicker ball off a 2-pace Chris Gayle run-up (I've been bowling these a bit in the nets lately, it's amazing how you can confound the batsman if you bowl with a stern expression on your face and give off the impression that every ball is going to do something special despite the innocuous run-up and slow motion delivery) was about 85kph. Which isn't really much of a quicker ball.
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