The electronic dart board is now well established for home use as well as tournament play. There are many variations, from the arcade style found in tournaments and the coin op version in some bars, to the standard home versions of the boards. The great thing about them of course is the electronic scoring; the score on the dart board is registered by the sensors and the electronics in the board so there is no need to record the score yourself, no more chalk boards required. Most of them will also indicate whose turn it is by lights or even a voice on the more expensive models. It is like having a referee in the house, all those chores like scoring, remembering whose turn it is and interpreting the rules is all done for you by the electronics.

There are now two types of electronic dart board around, the standard board with hundreds of holes in it and the new so called “BristleTech” board, which has fibres like the classic bristle boards and you can use both steel tip and soft tip darts on, with the advantages of the electronics as well. This is truly the best of both worlds and is surely the way of the future.

The latest from Halex is the Armada Bristletech dartboard that has a laser that marks out the throw line for you! So you get to use whatever darts you like and the built in laser shows you where to throw from as well, fantastic! So both types of darts players can make use of this board. You never know, it might just make an appearance in the Las Vegas Classic one day.

There are standard wall mounted boards and the arcade style that doesn’t need to be set up, as they are free standing and the board is already mounted for you at the correct height. (Great! no drilling) The latest electronic dart boards are relatively cheap, at a starting price of around $50 to $300 for the all singing, all dancing arcade types.

Also bear in mind the wall mounted version of the electronic dart board is necessarily bigger than the normal bristle boards because of the electronics, so when it comes to housing your new board, you will need a larger than normal dart board cabinet to accommodate it. Just check when you get a cabinet for one, that an electronic board will fit in it, they usually say if they will fit the bigger electronic dartboards in the specifications of the cabinet.

Posted on November 28th, 2007 by Jeremy
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