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Xen0n flash
04-04-2011, 10:01 AM
Ok so a friend of mine brought an interesting point to my attention about angle shots. Most of testing happens right from the side of a 2 lane or 1 lane road, or straight out right? Well many of the highways here have between 3 and 6 lanes, and of course the troopers are well off to the side and naturally are going to shoot you from an angle rather than straight on. I had a couple troopers shoot me and before I killed the jammers, they stopped, either because they got a PT or just got tired of wasting time trying to hit me and wanted to move on to other cars.

Needless to say it still raised concerned so I rented the Truspeed and took the car out to a good test road, but I parked myself at an approximate 20 degree angle. Sure enough I got a PT on my Driver Side HL (35mph @ 650FT!!!), 2 consecutive times. Everything else seemed to be JTG though.

I attached some pictures of my jammers from all different angles maybe the driveside diode is misaligned? Or is angel shooting just a big threat to me, baring in mind that the jammer heads are aimed straight ahead and can't shoot to the side.

I know LIDAR has the cosine effect too, and I will lose a few MPH on the reading, but if I'm doing 90 and I get clocked at 86 doesn't do me much good.

Any help (Cliff you out there?) would be greatly appreciated. See below.

Thanks!
Xen0n

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a218/jimmycsays/IMG00292-20110403-1748.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a218/jimmycsays/IMG00290-20110403-1748.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a218/jimmycsays/IMG00293-20110403-1749.jpg
radarrob
04-04-2011, 10:21 AM
looks like you need to level your heads
and test again.before you see them turn unit off
yellowcab
04-04-2011, 11:15 AM
Come to an ECCTG testing meet so we can test and offer opinions how you can improve your performance.
Andrew21
04-04-2011, 11:30 AM
Rob is right. If you look at the driver side head, it looks like its pointing down. The other is going slightly up. Plus they are not level with each other. Get that baby tuned now!
Xen0n flash
04-04-2011, 12:13 PM
Come to an ECCTG testing meet so we can test and offer opinions how you can improve your performance.

Where and when?
yellowcab
04-04-2011, 01:57 PM
Come to an ECCTG testing meet so we can test and offer opinions how you can improve your performance.

Where and when?

A link that is allowed to be posted: http://www.radardetector.net/forums/laser-jammers-general/71448-ecctg-east-coast-countermeasure-testing-group-test-tweak-meet-tri-state-area.html
yellowcab
04-04-2011, 09:36 PM
To have an angle of gun to car of 20 degrees, with a recorded distance of 650 ft. Would place you 220 ft horizontally away from the target
DrCoke
04-04-2011, 09:46 PM
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Riptide
04-05-2011, 10:11 AM
Your current placement setup is not idea for off axis shots.
The key to off axis protection is having your sensors as far apart width wise as possible.
For example:
http://i51.tinypic.com/2vbvvd2.jpg
Your heads are currently to central.
The farther apart you go (without putting them in that lower grille!) the better protection you will get but you don't want to open up the center to much. If you want really good off axis coverage you may need to switch to a trihead or quad in the front as a few of us have done.
mrkookm
04-05-2011, 10:15 AM
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yellowcab
04-05-2011, 12:03 PM
Your current placement setup is not idea for off axis shots.
The key to off axis protection is having your sensors as far apart width wise as possible.
For example:
http://i51.tinypic.com/2vbvvd2.jpg
Your heads are currently to central.
The farther apart you go (without putting them in that lower grille!) the better protection you will get but you don't want to open up the center to much. If you want really good off axis coverage you may need to switch to a trihead or quad in the front as a few of us have done.

Problem solved!

Dont forget to protect the middle!
muledoe1
04-05-2011, 08:54 PM
take a yardstick and place it over the 2 heads to see if they are straight and squared. I prefere to use fishing line for this method. Every LI car I ever tested was JTG in the real world when the install is perfect. PT only came from flawed installs.

what is the best way to make sure they are facing straight ahead? i never heard of either method before