Can you DIY additional laser jammer heads?

[Cyberdemon]

So after installing the blinders in my car and having people point out the weak spots I got to thinking:

Laser jammers are essentially just doing their job with a series of infrared LED's that flash on when they detect an incoming laser signal.

The issue that presents itself with 2/4 head laser systems is that you're localizing everything in a little black box that may or may not properly fit your car.

This got me to thinking - couldn't you wire a massive array of your own IR LED's (like these: High Power Infrared LEDs ) and put them where you wanted them?

The reason I thought of this is I was thinking of another forum for Acura's where a guy custom wires "Angel Eyes" and LED strips into factory headlights. Right now we're faced with painting headlights with Veil (which if you like tinted headlights looks great, and otherwise looks like crap and is obviously modified). So why couldn't you buy a bunch of those LED's, custom wire them where you needed (in between grill slats, mesh, inside the actual headlight housing) for maybe $50-100 in radio shack parts plus a couple of hours of time.

Essentially from an IR perspective a 2 head system gives you the equivalent of this:



whereas what we really want is THIS:



It seems like even if you had difficulty properly aligning the LED's, by supplementing an already competant system with a massive # of LED's you could add a lot of power where YOU wanted it. Looking at my own car it seems I could easily fit 20 of those LED's into my license plate frame, fog light surrounds, headlight housings, grille, and maybe even the turn indicators on my side mirrors.

Is their any real reason why something like this wouldn't work? Or is it just too overwhelming of a wiring project for people to consider.

Lets get some discussion going, if we put our minds together we might just be able to figure out the next best thing.

[ActiveKAjam]

It's not about getting the right LEDs or laser diodes, (well not completely) but it's the IR pulse rates (PPS), they have to be a specific speed, and it's different for every gun - with the exception of a cupple that have the same pulse rates.

There's the Lidatek LE-10 whitch doesn't have any specific pulse rates, but actually floods the laser gun with ALOT of IR light. This, is a type of jammer that's easy to spot out due to the jam codes (nothing I could use in my area)

That's just a few things about jammers, though.

Nothing you want to mess with.

[fire65]

Won't work if you will read and believe all the jammer post. Its said that a 2 head LI will out perform the 4 head blinder. I have been watching this closely.
Depends on whom you believe. Is it pure power or is it placement. Now read the Fritter blogs. Do we need quad heads with two a few degrees outward?

[REBinc]

So what if I just use the brains from the ZR3 to power the LEDs?

[Zapple]

So what if I just use the brains from the ZR3 to power the LEDs?

x2. This is what I was thinking. Of course the LED's won't have receivers, but that's what the two jammer heads are for, which would then get sent to the control box which would tell the LED's (both in jammers and IR LEDs) to start flashing at a specific PPS.

I'm interested in this topic.

[Stealth Stalker]

So what if I just use the brains from the ZR3 to power the LEDs?

I can see some potential to this. And with so many people getting stuck with inferior Escort jammers when buying the CI, it would certainly be a useful project! However, the biggest question would be, will the ZR3 -- or any other jammer CPU -- actually power the diodes you want to use? This could amount to being the equivalent of trying to fire a 12 gauge shot round out of a .22 rifle.

On the other hand, in the last GOL tests, the P.A.S.S. heads were shown to work with both the LPP and the Lager Tar CPUs. Certainly no guarantee that they would power high-powered laser diodes, but it does give us some hope.

[Cyberdemon]

We'll I'm talking about wiring additional diodes to an existing system (I have the M25's currently installed). Are the pulses being determined by the heads, or by the control units?

If the control unit is sending the pulsed voltage then it seems like this should be possible.

Otherwise it seems that you should be able to pull apart a head and solder wires onto the existing PCB locations and then put those LED's where you want.

[REBinc]

With the ZR3 the pusles are determined by the head I beleive, I have no problem hacking my ZR3s up since I have the LI, but I'd need a laser gun to test the effectiveness.