Escort 9500CI True Lock K Band Miss 3rd Time

[happya$$]

+1.

Honestly I do not recall. I BELIEVE my V1 had already alerted to the false then went silent. A few seconds later I got the Instant On blast then I made the visual once the cop made it over the hill. My 9500CI never made sound. Could it have been tht the 9500CI completely missed the IO hit? Maybe but I am pretty sure the sattelite icon was spinning. I am going to have to get one of those video mirror that DJ has

[thestaton]

I don't see how this is surprising... IO is still K band, and if it still matches the right freq of what's locked out what can you do?

[CJR238]

To those that say Auto Lock works well then all I have to say is that you do not live in an area that uses K and X band heavily!

I would agree with this, however how well it works does depend on the user too.

Truelock is the most idiotic feature I've seen on a radar detector.

You buy a radar detector to DETECTOR radar but you have another feature to block it? Really stupid.

I wouldn't say its the most idiotic feature. Maybe one of the most difficult to make work the way some people want it to.

I don't see how this is surprising... IO is still K band, and if it still matches the right freq of what's locked out what can you do?

X2.

This is the way it works, always has and always will.

I disagree with your opinion. I use it all the time and love it. I get that it's not for you and that's cool, but it is for some.

X2, I see nothing wrong with how TrueLock works, its a limitation of the technology, and the users willingness to make it work for them.
90% of peoples lock outs are in areas they cant or wouldn't speed, and in most cases where C/O is used you will get an alert before hand.

I know where my High Risk lock outs are and drive PSL, and if i want to blow through that area recklessly i turn the GPS filter off. That's what the GPS filter off button is there for.

[thestaton]

Just to show that none of these things are perfect, this morning while going to school I had a constant on K band encounter. The 9500CI alerted as normal, but the V1 was silent the entire time. I even power cycled it after the officer passed, and it alerted normal to the automatic door openers.

I think the best situation is to just always have two detectors running.

[MEM-TEK]

Just to show that none of these things are perfect, this morning while going to school I had a constant on K band encounter. The 9500CI alerted as normal, but the V1 was silent the entire time. I even power cycled it after the officer passed, and it alerted normal to the automatic door openers.

I think the best situation is to just always have two detectors running.

This is why I tend to preach that RD owners should power up their RD after they have started their car and their car is idling normally and not rough. Another alternative is to install a cheap but quality RC car stereo noise filter inline on a hardwire installation.

[CJR238]

Just to show that none of these things are perfect, this morning while going to school I had a constant on K band encounter. The 9500CI alerted as normal, but the V1 was silent the entire time. I even power cycled it after the officer passed, and it alerted normal to the automatic door openers.

I think the best situation is to just always have two detectors running.

X2,

Maybe a few of the more technically advanced people here can make something where 2 can be run at the same time? (other than the STI & CI)
A shielded box? or a specific distance at which they will work?

[MEM-TEK]

I have had Truelock, just once, ignore a K band radar gun while I was stopped at a light which was very close (approx 300 feet) from some locked out K band door openers at a hospital. DJ's V1 began picking up the additional K band signal as the cop approached the intersection whereas my 9500ci's GPS kept merrily spinning. I decided to turn right and followed the cop. Once I was approximately 800 feet from the door openers then my 9500ci started to alert at full strength.

I really need to find the time to finish my work on my completely new algorithms for Truelock, which of course I will license exclusively to Bel/Escort. Last I worked on it, I had the methodology set up so that my new algorithms would be able to handle up to 127 individual door openers more or less continuously spaced and located within 1/2 mile in any direction of any given lockout location, yet allow the RD to alert for any true X or K band radar gun in use anywhere within the vicinity of the lockout location. More than that, I won't say. The methodoloy is slick.

[Jon_Doh]

I hope I can beat you and sell my new system to Mike V. I have programmed code for the V1 that causes it to wink whenever it passes by an auto door opener so you know it's definitely a false alarm

[MEM-TEK]

I take it that the V1 will have an additional light, located next to the arrows, which looks like a grocery bag?

[Jon_Doh]

I take it that the V1 will have an additional light, located next to the arrows, which looks like a grocery bag?