Another STi-R needs repair

[jem58]

Just the antenna...

Lucky !!

[srtga]

I was fooling with mine the other day and turned laser on. Man, it started falsing A LOT!

[jem58]

I was fooling with mine the other day and turned laser on. Man, it started falsing A LOT!

Mine had started falsing to laser aswell, I spoke to Beltronics and they told me it was probably the grounding. So I didn't want to start messing with my wires,(lazy) so I just turned off laser detection. Maybe when I get it back it won't be falsing.

[Riptide]

Just goes to show that to be really save you need to run 2 detectors, it appears M3s can go out of tune as easily as V1s.

[Z1NONLY]

Just got it back today.

Card says "Replaced printed circuit board...update software" then below that is "A/cuc/PCB/A".

I suspect the printed circuit board is the detector. (guts) Because of the stealth shielding methods they use for the M3, I doubt they want to pull the antenna off the board and then reinstall it. (Just a guess on my part though)


So I installed the unit, turned off X-band, segmented Ka (2,5,8) and took her for a test drive in Highway mode...

Apparently, the latest software results in reduced K-band sensitivity. (door sensors only in this run) Where it used to trounce my V1, it's now alerting about the same time as the V1. (sometimes a second sooner, sometimes a second later)

I had two Ka encounters. The first was a 35.5 LEO with a customer. The V1 actually won by a second with a brief "is that radar?" alert, went silent for a second, then both started ramping up.

The next alert, just before I got home was 34.7. As I approached an intersection, the STiR alerted first and started to ramp up as though it was "sure" It was a good 4 seconds later, when I was only a few car lengths from stopping, when the V1 started in. It was a hwy patrol car approaching the same intersection on the cross street.

So the M3 still seems to have moments of amazing Ka band detection.

If they reduced K-band to get reduce false alerts, I would have preferred they do it only to the filter modes. (autoscan, city)

But if they did it to improve reliability, (lower the LNA gain, if that's even possible in this application?) I can live with it. (still pretty good)

[Riptide]

Just got it back today.

Card says "Replaced printed circuit board...update software" then below that is "A/cuc/PCB/A".

I suspect the printed circuit board is the detector. (guts) Because of the stealth shielding methods they use for the M3, I doubt they want to pull the antenna off the board and then reinstall it. (Just a guess on my part though)


So I installed the unit, turned off X-band, segmented Ka (2,5,8) and took her for a test drive in Highway mode...

Apparently, the latest software results in reduced K-band sensitivity. (door sensors only in this run) Where it used to trounce my V1, it's now alerting about the same time as the V1. (sometimes a second sooner, sometimes a second later)

I had two Ka encounters. The first was a 35.5 LEO with a customer. The V1 actually won by a second with a brief "is that radar?" alert, went silent for a second, then both started ramping up.

The next alert, just before I got home was 34.7. As I approached an intersection, the STiR alerted first and started to ramp up as though it was "sure" It was a good 4 seconds later, when I was only a few car lengths from stopping, when the V1 started in. It was a hwy patrol car approaching the same intersection on the cross street.

So the M3 still seems to have moments of amazing Ka band detection.

If they reduced K-band to get reduce false alerts, I would have preferred they do it only to the filter modes. (autoscan, city)

But if they did it to improve reliability, (lower the LNA gain, if that's even possible in this application?) I can live with it. (still pretty good)

What was the date code on your STi-R antenna if you don't mind me asking?
Also did you have the rampup update before this was done?

[ragamix]

i have seen quite a few broken sti-r. in all cases the problem was moisture in the antenna.. note that there was no mechanical damage at all. users are normally getting the check receiver wiring or receiver error message. however we did have a case in which no error was displayed at all

[Z1NONLY]

I can't see my serial number at the moment because of the way it's mounted, but the service ticket has the the serial number, a space, and then "3508".

As for the ramp up, it was fine out of the box. and had no upgrades until it was sent for repair.

[Z1NONLY]

It's failing again. I called Escort and...after an initial CS "scare" They will expedite my repair. (I should have it back before I go to the Florida State Championship in a couple weeks.)

[Riptide]

It's failing again. I called Escort and...after an initial CS "scare" They will expedite my repair. (I should have it back before I go to the Florida State Championship in a couple weeks.)

Damn dude I'm sorry, mine took two trips as well.

Very pleased with it currently though.