Timsatx
06-21-2006, 05:30 AM
Just a quick observation. I obviously have a bit to learn as far as what buttons do what :lol:
I used it when I went to lunch and got several X band hits. Obviously they came from the stores where I was at and no police. Then on the way back I also got some K band hits, but I didn't see any police. I'll just have to keep an eye out for these new invisible signals that I never saw before. :D
Just before I got back to work though I did change it from Highway mode to City 1. I will give it some time before I do much changing of settings just to get some sort of baseline.
Some points I like so far:
1)The blue text looks nice
2)Volume was at 4 when I got it. I don't know how high it will go but I bumped it up to 6 and that seems to be a nice level
3)The windshield mounting bracket. Once you form it, it will not move. The Bel 850 STi (which did not work afterall) I tried would slowly angle down. It used a screw to adjust the anlge and even tightened down the angle on it with the RD attached would slowly angle down.
4)A lot of options. Even if I almost never/never use some of them it is nice to have the option so that I can configure it to what I want. If they didn't have some of the options it may be defaulted in a way I wouldn't want.
5)Voice alerts
6)Ease of removal
7)2 year warranty :lol:
That's all I can think of at the moment.
I still have to work out a mounting location. Currently I have it mounted high on my widshield, behind my mirror but low enough for me to see the RD display. I may not move it from there because my windshield is very angled. If I moved it half way down the windshield I would hardly be able to even touch it. This pic shows what I mean:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y243/Timsatx/100_9618.jpg
I used it when I went to lunch and got several X band hits. Obviously they came from the stores where I was at and no police. Then on the way back I also got some K band hits, but I didn't see any police. I'll just have to keep an eye out for these new invisible signals that I never saw before. :D
Just before I got back to work though I did change it from Highway mode to City 1. I will give it some time before I do much changing of settings just to get some sort of baseline.
Some points I like so far:
1)The blue text looks nice
2)Volume was at 4 when I got it. I don't know how high it will go but I bumped it up to 6 and that seems to be a nice level
3)The windshield mounting bracket. Once you form it, it will not move. The Bel 850 STi (which did not work afterall) I tried would slowly angle down. It used a screw to adjust the anlge and even tightened down the angle on it with the RD attached would slowly angle down.
4)A lot of options. Even if I almost never/never use some of them it is nice to have the option so that I can configure it to what I want. If they didn't have some of the options it may be defaulted in a way I wouldn't want.
5)Voice alerts
6)Ease of removal
7)2 year warranty :lol:
That's all I can think of at the moment.
I still have to work out a mounting location. Currently I have it mounted high on my widshield, behind my mirror but low enough for me to see the RD display. I may not move it from there because my windshield is very angled. If I moved it half way down the windshield I would hardly be able to even touch it. This pic shows what I mean:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y243/Timsatx/100_9618.jpg