Is it possible for an 8500 to display "Self Cal" & not need to be serviced? Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
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Is it possible for an 8500 to display...
Is it possible for an 8500 to display "Self Cal" & not need to be serviced? Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
The old school 8500 does show self-cal messages.
yep, the original 8500 Rev 13
Re: Is it possible for an 8500 to display...
Yes, Self Cal means the unit is having trouble at that moment calibrating, it doesn't mean that the unit doesn't work. These units recalibrate automatically every few minutes.Originally Posted by eg1977
If the unit cannot recalibrate, eventually it will display "Service Required". Service Requied means the unit has failed to calibrate sufficiently well enough to work against Radar threats, or it can indicate that the unit has suffered an actual component failure.
If you get a Service Required, turn the unit OFF and then back ON and hope that the unit can recover.
Re: Is it possible for an 8500 to display...
When you get a self cal, it means you have to reset it by turning it off. While turned off, press the mute button and the other 2 buttons on top and turn the unit on while pressing on the 3 buttons. This will reset the the unit. After doing this and it continues to show self cal, then you have to send it for check up to escort.
Re: Is it possible for an 8500 to display...
When you get a self cal, it means you have to reset it by turning it off. While turned off, press the mute button and the other 2 buttons on top and turn the unit on while pressing on the 3 buttons. This will reset the the unit. After doing this and it continues to show self cal, then you have to send it for check up to escort.
One more time. Resetting the unit does not repair calibration failures, resetting the unit only resets user programmable settings back to default.
Resetting the unit is a waste of your time and efforts. To force the unit to do a complete recal just turn it OFF/ON. At power up the units do a complete self calibration and run additional diagnostic tests to assess unit
health.
The users that have reported success with the Reset method only achieved that success because Resetting the unit to factory defaults causes the unit to restart from the get go, mimicing a power OFF/ON.
You achieve the same result without losing your programmed preferences by Power OFF and back ON.
Re: Is it possible for an 8500 to display...
Why is it then the CS at escort tell you to do it first before sending it back to escort? Why does the unit work too when you do this? Of course it is not for all units. Just because you get a self cal doesn't mean that you unit is broke. This is what exactly happened to me.When you get a self cal, it means you have to reset it by turning it off. While turned off, press the mute button and the other 2 buttons on top and turn the unit on while pressing on the 3 buttons. This will reset the the unit. After doing this and it continues to show self cal, then you have to send it for check up to escort.
One more time. Resetting the unit does not repair calibration failures, resetting the unit only resets user programmable settings back to default.
Resetting the unit is a waste of your time and efforts. To force the unit to do a complete recal just turn it OFF/ON. At power up the units do a complete self calibration and run additional diagnostic tests to assess unit
health.
The users that have reported success with the Reset method only achieved that success because Resetting the unit to factory defaults causes the unit to restart from the get go, mimicing a power OFF/ON.
You achieve the same result without losing your programmed preferences by Power OFF and back ON.
If there is really a problem with self cal, no matter what you do, it won't go away and that requires sending the unit back to escort.
Most problems owners do with self cal message is to reset the unit from the "turned on" unit not from a turned off unit.
When the unit is on and you do the reset, you just put all the preferences into default settings.
When resetting the unit turned off and then power it up, it will take care of a minor glitch during it's self calibration when the unit is then turned on. This is not a waste of time if it fixes the problem. If it did waste's your time, you only lost a minute. What's waste of time is to send it back to escort with the money involve, not using your unit timewise while waiting for the repair for days or weeks and not having one to use if the method of ressetting helps.
One more time. Now read this slowly.
When you reset the unit the function that sometimes causes the Self Cal status to clear up is the fact that the unit is turned OFF/ then back ON.
The information that I am trying to provide to you does not dispute the fact that doing a RESET will achieve the same result. It does so because you turn the unit OFF, then back ON.
My information base is from the engineering side of the house and not from the CS side of the house.
A customer is encouraged to do whatever works best for them.
I'm not disputing you calibration info and explaination. I'm just stating the fact that others who have self cal message does not do the right thing when resetting the unit if that was just a minor glitch during the self cal cycle during power up. When i got my STi and used it for 45 min, self cal message came out. Turned off and turned on the unit several times but self cal message remained after several minute of use - did not go away until i called SC and told me what to do. On top of engineering, you will have software glitches even it was programed to do it.
Thanks for the info. The first time my 8500 malfunctioned, it was constantly alerting to KA band for no reason. I turned it off & on, then it worked fine. The second time, it did the same thing, alerting to KA at full strength. But this time, "Self Cal" was displayed for a short while. Today, it worked flawlessly, alerting to LEO several times from great distances.
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