Quick question about mounting

[Jabomb9]

For the past few days I've had my new 995 mounted on my windshield just below the RVM. But today, on my way to class, I thought I'd try mounting it higher, and directly to the left of the RVM and turn off Ku band detection. The suction cups are at the bottom of the tint strip so the RD is just below the tint strip. I did this and looped the cord around the mirror so I have clear sight/access to the smart cord and I've already noticed a difference. When on my normal route, I always pick up one X band false (from across the river, I assume) and this morning I picked it up much earlier and held on to it for a lot longer.

Anyway, when I mount it like this, the RD is aimed slightly (and I mean slightly) to the left because my windshield is curved (duh). So my question is: does that affect sensitivity at all? It is perfectly level with the road, but slightly aimed towards the left.

[Event Horizon]

For the past few days I've had my new 995 mounted on my windshield just below the RVM. But today, on my way to class, I thought I'd try mounting it higher, and directly to the left of the RVM and turn off Ku band detection. The suction cups are at the bottom of the tint strip so the RD is just below the tint strip. I did this and looped the cord around the mirror so I have clear sight/access to the smart cord and I've already noticed a difference. When on my normal route, I always pick up one X band false (from across the river, I assume) and this morning I picked it up much earlier and held on to it for a lot longer.

Anyway, when I mount it like this, the RD is aimed slightly (and I mean slightly) to the left because my windshield is curved (duh). So my question is: does that affect sensitivity at all? It is perfectly level with the road, but slightly aimed towards the left.

It the same situation with my Volks New Beetle. Lol. On this car everything is curved. My rd is level with the road as you said but offset a little bit on the other axis of the car (the width) I can tell you from experience that it probably does not effect it i've had great range but.. someone else with more technical radar savvy can chime in. Its probably good as long is not at extremes.

[Jabomb9]

Yea it's nowhere near extreme, but you can definitely see an angle with it. If requested, I can take pictures.

[spankyaf]

No worries isnt that critical.

You might be interested to know that Mike Valentine suggests that mounting your RD behind the tint strip can improve your laser reception on sunny days.

Of course not all tint strips are the same

[Jabomb9]

Thanks for the reply.

And about the tint strip thing, does that affect radar sensitivity at all?

[jdong]

No, the tint strip isn't going to affect radar. At least as long as it isn't metallic tint, which it shouldn't be.

As far as having the detector curved, it's going to affect your straight line detection distance, but for these high end units it's already so freaking far that in the real world you don't care about that loss. Bottom line it doesn't matter. As long as it's not pointing into your dashboard or up into the ionosphere, you're fine.

[Jabomb9]

"Into the ionosphere"...lol

That's kind of what I thought too. However I do not know how much it will affect radar being shot from the right (since the detector is aimed a little left). I don't think it will be too noticeable. I'll try this out for awhile and see how it works.

Thanks for the help.

[jdong]

Give it a try. I'm betting for like straight line, you'll see frightening differences (like 7 vs 12 miles) for even small fluxuations in angles, but once you move to a distance where it's more reasonable, the difference will be nearly unnoticeable. Having a fat guy in the car in front of you probably will cause a bigger problem with reception and you don't really worry about that much. (Err... if you do..... I have no comment )

[LordV]

Jabomb, have you checked out the following mirror mount?

http://www.countryjoycrafts.com/Conn...arDetector.htm

I love the thing. No suction cups, no windsheild curvature. Good all around detection performance position.

[Jabomb9]

I looked at it earlier but haven't decided if I should get it or not. The idea of no suction cups is sure nice though...