Vector 955, Three encounters, thoughts?

[Paperlantern]

had three seperate encounters today, no saves, but encounters none the less, helped me guage some things, and I need your input, maybe IM jsut not used to this detector yet and it did fine, I'm not sure.

First one was driving to work this morning, now the picture is a couple years old, the offramp wasnt done yet, its done now obviously. The highway there is Rt 315, right smack in the middle of Columbus OH. Point A is where ive been picking up 2 different falses. One being a weak X band, and another being a weak K band, I think there might be 2 different types of door openers in the vicinity. The building you see in the upper right is one of the Ohio State University Medical Center buildings. The two signals usually alternate as I come down the ramp as they take turns in signal strength, and this continues all the way to point F as i make my way to the other main road, they usally are gone by the time i reach the intersection, but this time at about midway between A and B it settled on X and increased to a three bar signal, so I look around and right accross the intersection aimed right at me is a OSU Campus Police Officer at point C, coming down the hill. The light is green so I turn right at B and he follows through point D and falls in behind me at point E and him at F. At this point it jumps to a 4 Bar, then fades to nothing at the intersection, and we go opposite ways. I dont know why it never climbed beyond a 4 bar reading, I would have thought the Bel would have gone nuts with him facing right at me. I thought radar was either constant on, burst on, like instant on or not in use, what gives with the "half-assed" readings.



The second encounter was not 2 minutes later right up the road, I depicted only the turn around trip, but I actually encountered this LEO going west bound while he was with a customer facing the same way, as i went by the LEO, the Bel only hit a level 6 alert then faded as i got further, I wasnt suprised at this since it was facing away, it still held the alert for better then .4 miles after I passed him. I decided to drive a ways down and turn around and come back at him. So i turned around and drove east at him, I picked up the K signal at Point A (bout .6 miles away, traffic was pretty heavy), it ramped up to (what should have been i THOUGHT) a full alert, 7 bar signal, but the beeping I thought was less frantic then it should have been at a 7 bar reading, is this normal? I would have thought this thing would have been beeping so fast it would sound like one solid beep. but again, maybe im not sure



I have to get going now, Ill be back to post the third encounter in a bit.

Love to hear thoughts on these two, ask questions if you need more info, or tell me Im an anal idiot, and my detector is fine =p

[Paperlantern]

Third encounter was in a parking lot while I was eating lunch, I was parked. The parking lot is a Shopping plaza, the main store being a Kroger, it runs a door opener on K band that sits at point B. I usually pick up a false from it at the intersection at point A. I was parked at point C eating lunch, backed into the space facing almost directly south, and the car was on with the AC running, oddly enough I didnt get ANY false from the door opener at all. I was gathering up trash to leave when K alert sounded, 2 bars at first, so i ignored it thinking I caught a reflection off a moving car and got the door, happens all the time, typically i mute it, or turn it off if it keeps getting a constant alert where i happen to park, I only left it on this time because it was quiet. Then 3 bars, 4, 5... at this point im like where the HECK... scanned everything in front of me, nothing, by this time its at 6 bars, mirrors, nothing, finally i look left and see a township LEO at point D, i can only guess he came in in that direction and i just missed him since i looked forward first, not to my mirrors. Again it SEEMED a little tame of a reaction, beeps not as fast as i thought theyd be with such close proximity to the radar source. Maybe that WAS the proper reaction and Im just used to faster beeping detectors. Someone set me straight.



Well those are the three. So what you think, the Bel acting as it should? Or am I being to scrutinal about my new tool, and maybe I should jsut let it do its job. My only thing is in encounter two, I was DIRECTLY in front of the LEO but the beeping just didnt seem that fast to me, I dunno. :roll:

[pkquat]

Sorry I can't comment the performance. I had been watching the other thread to hear how you like the 955. I have to laugh a little. When I got my Bel Express 795 (the cheap one with Q/C issues) I drove for over 3 weeks before I had my first encounter with anything real to set it off. I wondered if it even worked other than a few blips. It was a dud one that went back to CC .

I hope you have more testing encounters with saves if needed.

[xrs9430]

when i had a 955 it was a very reliable/solid unit

[Paperlantern]

Oh I like it so far, I just wanted to hear from other Bel users, 955 in particular, is the beeping alert supposed to ramp all the way to an almost solid tone, or is what i was getting (a quick paced beep but still very distict single seperated beeps) normal in these situations?

[xrs9430]

depends on the situation, i think it is at a near solid tone when at full alert but i really don't know

[KaPro]

I own a V995 and it does not go to a full audio alert tone. I think this is a common trait of Bel units. I believe your 955 is working perfectly.

[strmchaxsr]

my V995 does do full alerts with KA

[Paperlantern]

I did some research on youtube and I saw some footage of both the 995 and the Rx65 and it appears they had the exact same tone speed as mine, so i think you are right, kapro, they dont beep as fast as I thought, good.

[aust3333]

Yeah the 955 and RX65, heck mostly all Bel units have an issue with ramp up in their alerts. They also do not have lock tones like the V1 and the X50. Many Bel users complain of the horrible ramp up and the absence of lock tones.