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    Default $300 ticket with my Passport 8500 ??

    So I'm driving down the highway at 120kmh, I get my warning, and soon after a cop passes but I have slowed to 100 kmh by this time. I get another alarm and slow down again, same thing, cop goes by. Now I see a car comming at me maybe 1-2km away, looks like a cop but no alarm, then when I can actually make out the light on top, BAM he flips his radar on, and I get a $300 ticket. Does the Passport 8500 not have the instant on detection or is it too old school, lol.

    Any help is appreciated, I live in Manitoba Canada fyi.

    Thanks

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    uhh well.. you got zapped. How can ANY detector detect a radar signal that is NOT transmitting? You need to tell me. It is only transmitting when the cop flips the switch, THEN, and only then, will any radar detector alert.

    So basically, if you don't have a rabbit in front of you, you will be exposed to instant on radar. So answer is no, you passport is fine and works as designed. And the original 8500 has some great detection range.

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    Instant on is just that, not on, then instantly on. You got beat, not your RD. Your RD did exactly as it was designed to do, detect radar. I have the SRX, which uses the original 8500 as its' detector. It works great, as long as pop is not a used be the LEO's in your local area. I have no pop in Cali, so no problems here.

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    As said, your detector can not detect police radar if it is OFF... hence the term instant on... you could even be following a rabbit, and an office chooses not to shoot him but decides to shoot you, guess what, you just have been toasted with out warning. Welcome to radar 101.

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    Ah ok, THank you for the quick responses. Just to be clear I wasn't complaining just wondering. My 8500 has saved me countless times, This was just my 1st time running into a guy that flipped it on at the last second,lol.

    thanks all

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    Quote Originally Posted by tmcaree
    Ah ok, THank you for the quick responses. Just to be clear I wasn't complaining just wondering. My 8500 has saved me countless times, This was just my 1st time running into a guy that flipped it on at the last second,lol.

    thanks all
    Yeah, there's definitely some areas that I drive through where I lock in EXACTLY at the speed limit because the cops surely know how to run their radar. Ohio, instant-on X-band.... nailed 3 times on my past trip and fortunately I was locking cruise control at the limit or 3-5 over, because I had no idea the encounter was coming. And I was using a V1, arguably the best-range X-band detector.

    Bottom line, IO is deadly and with a skilled cop no detector can alert you to a threat that doesn't transmit any signal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tmcaree
    Ah ok, THank you for the quick responses. Just to be clear I wasn't complaining just wondering. My 8500 has saved me countless times, This was just my 1st time running into a guy that flipped it on at the last second,lol.

    thanks all
    Would have saved you this time too if you weren't relying on it and had your eyes open after the first 2 alerts

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    The 8500 X50 doesn't detect quick pulls of the radar gun's trigger like the Valentine One does.

    YouTube - Valentine One POP radar detection test

    YouTube - Valentine One and Escort 8500 X50 POP Radar Test

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    Quote Originally Posted by <<JAZZY>>
    The 8500 X50 doesn't detect quick pulls of the radar gun's trigger like the Valentine One does.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifl10fXxlkY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiSaa-7I0-s
    that's with POP radar which might be a little hard on teh x50 lol.

    in any case, i do believe the x50 from time to time will miss a brief long-range I/O from ka band where the v1 wouldn't, but i'm only saying that with my limited experience with the x50 and my long time experience with the v1.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kensteele
    Quote Originally Posted by <<JAZZY>>
    The 8500 X50 doesn't detect quick pulls of the radar gun's trigger like the Valentine One does.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifl10fXxlkY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiSaa-7I0-s
    that's with POP radar which might be a little hard on teh x50 lol.

    in any case, i do believe the x50 from time to time will miss a brief long-range I/O from ka band where the v1 wouldn't, but i'm only saying that with my limited experience with the x50 and my long time experience with the v1.
    Actually, that isn't POP radar. He wasn't activating POP radar correctly so it was the same as a quick trigger pull test.

 

 

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