Carl’s curved enclosure is a premium room project whose value depends on projection planning as much as the screen and frame.
The Indoor Golf Shop’s DIY kit suits hands-on builders, provided you compare the full material cost and follow the correct frame drawing.
SIGPRO’s commercial enclosure offers more layout choices, but its frame kit, mounting positions, and rear supports need careful planning.
The SIG10 includes its frame, but room clearance and projector setup still need attention before you build around it.
The BenQ AH500ST is a problem solver for a room that cannot give a projector seven or eight feet between lens and screen. Its roughly 0.5 throw ratio can fill a ten-foot-wide screen from about five feet away, and its 4,000-ANSI-lumen laser has enough output for a serious home bay. The tradeoff is that the lens is fixed. You have to be more precise about where the projector goes. I would consider it for a shallow garage or basement where the projector needs to sit near the screen. I would be cautious about a floor mount in the path of low shots or rebounds unless it has suitable protection and does not interfere with the golfer. The Throw Ratio Is the Main Feature The AH500ST specification page lists a 0.499 throw ratio. Multiply the intended image width by that number to get a first estimate of lens-to-screen distance. A ten-foot-wide…
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The BenQ LK936ST makes sense when you have a large impact screen, some light to manage, and a mounting position that ordinary short-throw projectors cannot handle neatly. Its combination of 4K resolution, 5,100 ANSI lumens, and physical lens shift is genuinely useful in a finished simulator room. It is also an expensive way to solve problems that a smaller, darker room may not have. I would start with a drawing of the bay, not the projector. The LK936ST can produce a sharp picture, but its throw distance and mounting position still have to work around the golfer, the launch monitor, the screen, and the ceiling. Lens Shift Is the Reason to Look Closely The LK936ST specifications give it a 0.81–0.89 throw ratio and 1.1× optical zoom. For a ten-foot-wide picture, that works out to roughly 8.1–8.9 feet from lens to screen before installation tolerances. This is a planning range, not…