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I have had several requests to disassemble the ZR4 shifter heads and take photos of the internals. Well, earlier today I finally had time to do this! I've added the photos to my ZR4 review which is still a work in progress. Here is the link:
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I have had several requests to disassemble the ZR4 shifter heads and take photos of the internals. Well, earlier today I finally had time to do this! I've added the photos to my ZR4 review which is still a work in progress. Here is the link:
I should send you my ZR3 heads so you can open them up for everyone to compare
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I should send you my ZR3 heads so you can open them up for everyone to compare
Alrighty, send them on!
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geez, this is just amazing. how are you taking those snaps? they are perfect.
Today's pictures of the head internals were "dirty", especially since one of my cheap desk lamps broke apart at one of its plastic hinges. Parts and springs went flying everywhere, and one spring just missed my left eye! I guess that explains why Office Depot had those lamps on clearance last summer for just $5 each. My normal photo setup consists of using a piece of white construction paper for the surface and background, three desk lamps for illumination, and my digital camera on a tripod. I usually then quickly edit the photos in Paint Shop Pro for brightness, contrast, gamma, and to remove any background items off to the sides of the white construction paper.
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So, what exactly is this new ZR4 Laser Defense System? This system essentially is a product which is designed to both reliably detect and counter police radar guns. The ZR4 system consists of two remote front mounted laser detector/shifter modules which both detect police radar guns and which emit shifted signals to confuse police radar guns. The ZR4 system also includes a rear mounted laser detector/shifter module to protect the rear area of a car. This rear module is mounted directly above the rear license plate since police very commonly target the rear license plate area first when trying to acquire a car's speed reading using a laser gun.
I think you mean laser not radar
Thanks for sharing the pics with us, now I want to see a ZR3 inside to compare with it.
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Escort 9500ix mounted high and hardwired
POP OFF, SWS OFF, Ku OFF
Highway with scanning dot
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CPU - 7.06 TruSpeed Enabeled
Heads - Regular Size, 8.5
It was always a known fact that the ZR4 is LED based. I can not wait until everyone sees with their own very two eyes that the ZR4 is a ZR3 with just updated algorithms
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I think you mean laser not radar
Thanks for sharing the pics with us, now I want to see a ZR3 inside to compare with it.
Thanks for catching that! Its fixed now. Maybe Happya$$ will send me his ZR3 heads so that we can have some comparison photos of the ZR3 and ZR4 internals.
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Radar detectors which I use: 9500ci, STi, 9500i and V995.
Check out my Vintage Radar Detector collection.
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^ That's what I thought, too - that the ZR4 is definitely LED-based. But yet, without actual confirmation as what MEM-TEK has been able to provide us with, here (and big thanks to MEM-TEK, for taking the time to compose such an amazingly detailed, and true professional-quality, review! ), we never could say, definitively, like we can, now.
focal, I think that the only one who ever truly believed that the ZR4 was laser-diode based was '09 Milan on RR.net - and sadly, if what he'd said was true, he'd been misled by someone at Escort, no less.
MEM-TEK, from your physical examination of the ZR4, do you think that it is possible to "update" this unit via remote reflash of the firmware, as-is currently thought capable to update the 9500ix/ci ?
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I can't seem to search up the old ZR3 head pix...... I wonder if Professor Jim might be able to assist on this one, as his search terminology may be more exact than mine?
From what I've seen, cracking one of my ZR3's front heads open, it looks VERY similar to the ZR4, grossly, in terms of the receiver construct as well as the rows of IR-LEDs - but, of course, there are undoubtedly circuit-board differences.....
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Internal photos of the ZR4 shifter heads! 
