Burnt RD lives on

**dpatel01** · 06-25-2008, 03:39 PM

For those that read about my RDs recent unfortunate incident in the lounge, here's an update: I overcame my fear of plugging the power cord into the corroded looking RJ-11 and powered it up. It worked! I gave it a reset, high mounted it above RVM in the truck and set off for a test drive. It alerted in its usual places to the correct bands and on the interstate gave me nearly 2 miles on Ka as I approached a cop parked on the side of the road. The lesson is that a Bel coming out of 800*F heat can still outperform a brand new Cobra.

I'll send it in to Belscort for them to check it over and replace the case as its got lots of cosmetic damage, some corrosion on the jack, both lenses cracked (particularly the front), some slight deformation from the heat along the left side, and needs an internal cleanup as well due to smoke getting into the tiniest places of every other thing that was in that room. I guess this means I won't be trying a V1 even tho I really wanted to.

**ELVATO** · 06-25-2008, 03:41 PM

LOL, yea those Bels are pretty tough. My dad's has been through an accident, and it's still working great.

**hockey005** · 06-25-2008, 06:47 PM

haha thats funny..well atleast get the v1 for the 30 days and see how u like it

**cell21633** · 06-25-2008, 11:17 PM

new marketing material for belscort

another patent for them!

**dpatel01** · 06-26-2008, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by cell21633

new marketing material for belscort

another patent for them!

"Our competitors offer only 360 degrees of protection, we offer a full 800 degrees"

**kpatz** · 06-26-2008, 07:18 AM

Sorry to hear about your fire. We went through the same thing in 2005, it isn't fun. At least my V1 was in the car at the time so it survived untouched.

Just curious, where was the RD sitting at the time of the fire? Was it low to the ground or higher up? Heat rises, so objects up on high shelves see more heat in a fire than objects sitting on or near the floor. Chances are if your RD did see 800 degree heat for any length of time it would be a molten puddle.

In my fire, DVDs on top of a hutch melted but the hard drives in my PC sitting on the floor survived unscathed, in the same room (a room a few rooms over from where the fire was).

**Rottman** · 06-26-2008, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by hockey005

haha thats funny..well atleast get the v1 for the 30 days and see how u like it

X2

**dpatel01** · 06-26-2008, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by kpatz

Just curious, where was the RD sitting at the time of the fire? Was it low to the ground or higher up? Heat rises, so objects up on high shelves see more heat in a fire than objects sitting on or near the floor. Chances are if your RD did see 800 degree heat for any length of time it would be a molten puddle.

It was about two feet off the ground on the nightstand closest to the door the heat was coming through. Other things on the same nightstand that were melted are the mp3 player, a pair of earphones and a radio shack scanner which I was using to listen to storm chasers as the weather got bad that night. The scanner is no longer recognizble; the IBM laptop on the bed within a foot of the nightstand just melted dead and shut. The digital camera, also on the nightstand, came out covered in soot, looks like its blowing a puff of smoke and makes popping noises every time I take a picture. A set of I-trigue computer speakers (wood/metal) turned out ok but dirty just needing some cleaning up despite everything else near it becoming useless.

There were some objects that got hotter than others. My Speedstream DSL modem despite becoming unusable showed no signs of physical damage, yet the Belkin wireless router directly next to it took on a completely new shape of its own.