I know there's a delay in alert, but this much?
I was driving my normal route, where I generally see lidar at least once or twice per month. Sure enough I got some, but since I haven't had friendly testing of my LI setup I don't trust it yet, so I was only maybe 5-7 past PSL.
I was in the leftmost lane, with another car in front of me. My Escort heads (9500ci) went nutso. I had them on alert-only and they went off, I assumed it was sun interference from the back of the car in front of me because I couldn't see any LEO and it was glare-y.
Escort kept alerting for another 2 seconds or so, I had already backed down to PSL by this point.
Then I finally SAW the LEO and the LI alerted.
I'm not sure if this is due to the uber-sensitivity that the Escort has and it picked up scatter from him targeting the car in front of me? Or, could it be my escort head location vs. the LIs? My LIs are relatively high on the car (but still below hoodline and no higher than the headlights). However, due to the rake of the grill, they are set back maybe 1-2 inches in comparison to the Escort heads. Could this make such a drastic difference in reaction? How much of an effect does being out of level have? I'm still trying to get them tweaked to stay level, and they generally stray a bit between my adjustments - on the bubble level that ship with them, the bubble is never fully outside of the center area, but it will stray out and the heads tend to tilt back / aim upwards.
Some horrible installed photos here - I couldn't fit in front of the car where I had parked it when I took these. Click to get to a larger size.
http://photos.big-geek.net/Cars/R32-...83_tAk4r-M.jpg
http://photos.big-geek.net/Cars/R32-...36_v9CM5-M.jpg
http://photos.big-geek.net/Cars/R32-...01_emUnJ-M.jpg
http://photos.big-geek.net/Cars/R32-...40_M23pZ-M.jpg
Should I consider moving the LI heads down to the lower section of the top grill (i.e. sitting right on top of the silver part)? My concern with this is that the silver section gets VERY hot (sun and stupidly hot 6cyl engine), to the point where I'm worried that 3M adhesive may start to come off.
Re: I know there's a delay in alert, but this much?
put the heads rite here if you can.i know the r32 emblem comes off.
http://pic60.picturetrail.com/VOL167.../390040664.jpg
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Hockey005 has his heads in the same location on a vehicle that is quite a bit more reflective. We do not need to remind anyone how well his installation performed.
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...hocke005-3.jpg
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once i get my stalkerlz1 back he will no longer be JTG and JFG from gun anymore :D.his car is what i need to determine why my stalkerlz1 is freak of nature. http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...t-results.html perfect example of this gun. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYcHaKuxIZQ[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEZ1woJ3aQo&feature=player_embedded[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0RmtbJuWoQ&feature=player_embedded[/ame] rear Li HP heads on this car:eek:
Re: I know there's a delay in alert, but this much?
Win for the ZR4's loss for the LI. :p
Looks like the heads are angled down?
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I'd suspect installer error on the runs where any pwnage occurred...
No doubt the LZ1 is sinister.
Re: I know there's a delay in alert, but this much?
R.j. car was perfect on placement.hp heads 4 in front.everyone's car including mine was getting rediculas readings and PT on all setups,but when we shot all other lidar guns all setups were fine.
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radarrob
R.j. car was perfect on placement.hp heads 4 in front.everyone's car including mine was getting rediculas readings and PT on all setups,but when we shot all other lidar guns all setups were fine.
yeah nothing should get PT on RJ's car ever... well... short of hitting it with two guns at once ;)
Re: I know there's a delay in alert, but this much?
Check whether your level is reading accurately. Put it on any half-way level surface such as a kitchen countertop, and note where the bubble is. Then swap ends on the level so the end that was on your left is now on your right and see if the bubble is in the same location, ie if it was touching the line on the right, after you swap end it should still be touching the line on your right.
If you have one of the square levels, to this on each side. On my square one, one side has a gap in the lines, and this is the only side that reads true. The other three sides are off by up to 1/4 bubble. My round level is much better in this respect.
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Swamp
Check whether your level is reading accurately. Put it on any half-way level surface such as a kitchen countertop, and note where the bubble is. Then swap ends on the level so the end that was on your left is now on your right and see if the bubble is in the same location, ie if it was touching the line on the right, after you swap end it should still be touching the line on your right.
If you have one of the square levels, to this on each side. On my square one, one side has a gap in the lines, and this is the only side that reads true. The other three sides are off by up to 1/4 bubble. My round level is much better in this respect.
we tested in everyway with the heads on everyones car to make sure everything was OK. we even tried bubbles in and bubbles out stalkerlz1 still doing damage on everyones car.one member spent 1 hour 4 heads or more on the front of his car to figure out if the setup he had would fix the problem. this was said from one member who's setup actually did better
> in the A + B type configuration for the meet. It was after getting a 600ft + PT from the Stalker and a 574+ ft with the Prolite + did it end up in its current 'HP' configuration due to frustration/laziness. Before you ask the obvious, let me make you aware the sensors were perfectly leveled in every way!
The A + B JTG all the other guns except these 2 guns, the killer was the Stalker being a definite freak of Stalker manufacturing because it is a bad ass gun and was PT at will as if I wasn't even jamming. Keep in mind this is the same gun that got a few PT's on a QUAD HP up front and dual rear HP's (with Veil) car several times at +150ft~200ft . Only in the non-standard configuration shown below did it provide JTG / low PT results for my big wrap around headlights, so while it seems as a setup for failure it actually worked very well. I conclude this is to due to fact that they're now acting as a "horizontal polarized HP" sensor.
I do have one more mount location to try before deciding on leaving it in its current location permanently and that is shown below as the C only configuration using 2 heads only. The D position is shown because that was the location I did a couple of pass with at the test site that JTG the stalker while the other 2 heads were in the A position. The D position isn't feasible because it hangs too far out and damage would be inevitable.
Though its difficult to grasp the size of the headlights due to the straight camera shot, the distance from the center of the top most sensor to the outer edge of my headlights is 25in, where as the center of the C sensor to the outer edge or H symbol is 16.5in. I'm hoping the 9in less coverage should yield much better performance and still be protect the lower fogs efficiently.
http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...r-meet-28.html