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You spent over $1k so you could avoid a $200 ticket?

 

I currently have a V-1 on a blendmount, but changing to a passport 9500ix because i am tired of all the false signals (spend most of my time in town). No experience with jammers.... have to say my V1 was really useful in my CLK55 AMG, but driving an F150 does not encourage the same triple digit profile.....

 

love my v1...

Why do you have a radar on in town? Quit speeding in traffic..

 

Apparently not if you don't know how to install them.

 

Too bad the Blinders are garbage. Should have spent the extra money and got the Laser Interceptor, a true diode based system....

You will notice poor performance with the Blinders, especially with a truck like the F150.

 

Passport 8500/9500 plus Escort zr3/4 laser jammers. Served me well on 3 occasions back when I was a Bimmer owner.

This was due to the fact that they actually _linked up_ together and allowed a much greater area of detection. Police tend to target headlights, license plates, or windshields and lasers being lasers, they tend to be narrow beams.

With any other setup, if the police was targeting your windshield and the jammers are down on your bumper- your jammers may fail to fire. With this setup, if the police targeted your windshield the Passport would detect the laser/lidar and then instruct your jammers to fire away.

With that in mind, mount them between your headlights and plate both vertically and horizontally. Make sure you angle them correctly as well. You won't be effective at further distances if they're not. It's tricky and you can't really test them once you install unless you have a friend in the police business.

 

Who said I was speeding? I just said it was on, and annoying with false alerts. Not much interested in speeding in a vehicle has big as this one....but I still like to know when I am on the gun.

 

Congrats on a great setup. I owned a performance shop in Texas for a decade and a third of our business was lidar blocking and radar detection. We had a great relationship with the local PD and they helped us test many brands with the latest laser and radar units. The Blinder gear jammed all three laser guns they had. The Valentine has been our best selling detector since Mike Valentine left Escort in the 80's... We turn the X and Laser bands off in the V1 to reduce false alerts. Being smart enough to read and operate a V1 is the most important thing to using it well. There are a few times I thought it was false blipping, it turned out to be instant on or a unit a few hills and miles ahead...

I always mounted the heads between the top of the bumper cover and under the grille. I would hold them in place with a bead of silicone. I would do three heads in front and one in the rear.

I just got a ticket in the wife's Explorer Sunday 81 in a 60. The points, fine, and hassle easily justify the cost of a good defense. With township budgets going broke, ticket writing is at an all itme high around here...
I sold my V1 when I got rid of my last Corvette... I had three vettes over a 7 year period and never got a ticket in them...

 

He's got enogh money to buy (and pay cash) for a new truck every year. $1000 is nothing for him.

http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/87...ml#post8236396

 

Yes how dare they ticket you for going 21 mph over the limit? That's reckless driving in some places.

 

You do realize that a laser is traveling at the speed of light, which is faster than any electronic impulse can travel due to resistance. Unless your jammer is on all the time it is useless. If your jammer starts after the laser hit your car, the jamming signal would be behind the laser signal resulting in the laser receiving your speed before it is jammed. If a laser hits your car and no reading is given or a wildly inaccurate reading is given, that is clear indication that the laser is being interfered with, which is enough to initiate a traffic stop and conduct and inspection of your vehicle.

Laser doesn't go through glass.

 

Resistance does not slow down EM energy, it just limits how much gets through. There is also a grace period where the lidar gun is attempting to measure the doppler shift from when it fired. This all takes time that allows the laser jammer to work.

You're right, the cop could get suspicous but its not illegal to have one in most states and most laser jammers turn off after a few seconds as to create doubt as to whether it was user operator error in getting a good speed.

However, newer lidar guns actually inform the cop if it is being jammed with a tone/code, expect to be pulled over and get some lip but what would you be fined with?

I don't understand the glass thing.

 

I'm 19 and i already have gotten 16 tickets ive only had my liceance for 2 years, i wish i had the money for a radar jammer, but since my last ticket in august i have stoped messing around, my cobra detector doesnt work well enough i guess, ive got caught multiple times with it, ehh oh welll i dont need it anymore i dont even use it i learned my lesson lol

 

My Beltronics RX65 has saved my butt many times over the 6 years I have had it. I transfer it to every vehicle I buy. Will never travel without it.