Strength of Automatic Doors that use K band

[asianfire]

I have "tested" several stores that send out a K band signal from their automatic doors. Question is... How strong are those signals compared to a real radar used by police?

[SmaartAasSaabr]

Not very. Compare the actual range of the units, when does the door open as you walk towards it?

[laserblaster]

they are very very low powered but you can get a good detection distance off them....

as valentine says this is the best way to test a radar detector, obviously the more sensitive it is the longer it will pick it up!

[asianfire]

Thanks guys! I was about 500' from the doors and getting about 3-5 on my whistler 1788. Didn't know if that was good or bad

[jdong]

That's not bad at all. These things are pretty interesting to "practice" with.

[laserblaster]