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New 9500i button/switch install
I couldn't stop tinkering. The button was too recessed with my old install using the original hardwire Smartcord that I took apart.
I got a mute button hardwire kit with red LED online. I used the existing holes I had drilled and added a SPST switch.
The green led switch is for my LI jammer.
Very nice! One of these days I will post pics of my install. Not as nice as yours but I can’t stop tinkering ether.
Look like 2 toggle switches? one is for mute and the other is for?
The mute is a momentary push button switch, and the other is just an on/off power/kill toggle switch for the 9500i. Escort recommends using the power button on the detector itself, but I'm to lazy too reach up there.Originally Posted by focalcivic
Again, great stuff! Keeps getting better and more refined!
I liked it better the other way, I just don't like those cheap looking toggle switches like that. Certainly you can still find some cooler kind of switch than that for your next phase of modification. The toggle switch just looks too simple and home handy mannish, not custom pro. I'd also be afraid that having the switch sticking out that far like that would make it easier to accidentally turn it off.
Some cool custom car stereo installs I've always liked are when they build a custom over head deck and make it look a lot like the hi tech cockpit of an airplane with switches and gages and everything installed up above. A heck of a lot more work involved, but the final product always ends up looking just so cool from inside the vehicle.
Good ideas, but as a relative noob to this hobby, I don't strive for custom pro. At least for now.
My mini cooper is full of airplane like toggle switches above and below. Not many convenient "blank" places to install switches otherwise. With my other commitments, I have a "less than a hour rule or forget about it" rule with my installs.
I'll stick with my current switch for now. It is pretty out of the way so it doesn't interfere with the aesthetics of the car but is easy to locate by proprioception, as TSi+WRX would say. Also my thigh can't rub against it since it is pretty far back and below seat level.
Never thought i would here this word ever used in a radar detector forum "proprioception"
Does that toggle switch then match these other factory toggle switches in your car? That would be ok if it maintained a stock appearance by matching the existing switches.
We literally have hundreds of different kinds of cool switches in our parts warehouse where I work. I run across new ones all the time that I often think would be cool to use for something or another, most of them are lighted switches though and don't operate off of 12 VDC, they're like 208VAC single and 3 phase (etc...) for the most part, the DC ones are usually 24VDC, which kind of sucks. There are certainly a lot of cooler switches out there though other than just the basic chrome toggle switch. I notice the ones stocked in auto parts stores are usually rather basic, but a google search for switches could land you some simple to install tricked out options to consider.
What I'd love to get are some of those custom-milled toggles that grace the cockpit of the Zonda vehicles...... 8)
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