STI Full Alert

**Offshore** · 06-25-2008, 08:18 PM

Had a strange thing happen today, took a K band hit and the STI locked up and stayed on full alert long past the encounter, had to cycle the unit off and on to clear it, what do you guys think might have happened? Should I send in for a check up?...Thanks

**Cips** · 06-25-2008, 08:29 PM

Maybe there was another LEO? How long after, distance wise?

**hockey005** · 06-25-2008, 08:31 PM

if u were next to an Audi Q7 (emits K band) or junk RD (STi falses on K band like the v1 falses on Ka) that might of happened

**Offshore** · 06-25-2008, 09:11 PM

It was very strange, I let it alert for a solid ten miles or so. At that point no other cars were around me....were talking full alert....powered down then back on and silent..seems fine...never had this happen before.

**mikered30** · 06-25-2008, 09:23 PM

Might want to reset it and see if it happens again.

**GTO_04** · 06-25-2008, 09:46 PM

My 985 does that every so often, especially if I had it on when I turned the ignition off and started my car again the next morning with the power switch setting unchanged. After 20 or 30 seconds the solid K band alert would go away and it worked fine.

GTO_04

**tactical22** · 06-26-2008, 07:50 AM

funny u say this...sometimes I get a full Ka alert and I have to cycle power to reset the detector...sems like a processor fault!

**Rottman** · 06-26-2008, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by tactical22

funny u say this...sometimes I get a full Ka alert and I have to cycle power to reset the detector...sems like a processor fault!

Did you forget it's made by Bel? Quality control sucks...

**FoolishOne** · 06-26-2008, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by Offshore

It was very strange, I let it alert for a solid ten miles or so.

10 miles! Pegged at full alert? I think that's inexcusable, even if it's an "isolated incident". Did you contact Bel yet?

I'm sure everyone has, at one point, locked up there desktop computer when they have interrupted something, usually trying to close the program when its in the middle of something. But its usually the programs 'fault', not the processor. The processor is just being told to run this code, and in the queue is the exit command. So I'm thinking it could be a firmware issue?

**Offshore** · 06-26-2008, 12:21 PM

Just contacted CS @ Bel, they told me that the unit needs to be sent in for a check up....all in all this is a good RD....however the QC does lack a bit at the Bel company....and the audio ramp is very poor...I will send in and just use the mighty V-1 while its making its way back to its birth place.

Thanks for the input!!!!!