Sti speaker setup

[porky786]

Well,

I beat instant on, with the bike again today, seems leos are just as disavantaged as the populace is with instant on, just who has the quickest draw. I was shut down 2 seconds before he fired and got the alert. It was a close call. over a rise and him oncoming within 5o yards

On my bike, I can be braked and drop 20'mph, before a vehicle driver can even let off the accelerator.

To my question , getting tired with summer heat, running an ear jack. Thinking of some kind of speaker , while the sti comes with a speaker, are there speakers that would work without needed the 12 volt pwer source, or would a speaker not work on the ear jack?

Sti speaker is too big to mount in my helmet

[BrownOut]

How about a warning light mounted in your helmet close to your eye right or left for a visual vs audible?

[porky786]

I cant tell ya how well the aubles work, tells ya what it is in addition. And can tell pretty quickly if a false

THe eye thing seems a cumbersome set up with addtional gadgetry and doesnt tell me what I'm getting hit with.

Granted having a Public siren with speaker while on the bike is not ideal either, I may just have to deal with earbud. The auto mute, is brilliant functional wise for motorcycle, you dont have to touch anything.

Mt sti has very low earjack sound, I have to run it at max and moddify ear bud to hear well enough.

My guess is they turned the jack output way down, cause it's suppose to use the speaker. Bell says they can increase the sound, but I have to send it in, its functional though as is.

[porky786]

I couldnt take it any more, that start up sequence

Beep Beep Brap Brap Tweet Tweet, switched the STI to fast on, and its got the GX65 start sequence with just a simple Beep Beep, that I really liked.

Between that and no Xband, utopia!!!


Still have not setup a speaker yet, on the bike, the ear jack gets enjoying after 4 or 5 hours

[tbtbt]

do you guys have pics of you bike and detector setups?

[MEM-TEK]

Well,

I beat instant on, with the bike again today, seems leos are just as disavantaged as the populace is with instant on, just who has the quickest draw. I was shut down 2 seconds before he fired and got the alert. It was a close call. over a rise and him oncoming within 5o yards

On my bike, I can be braked and drop 20'mph, before a vehicle driver can even let off the accelerator.

To my question , getting tired with summer heat, running an ear jack. Thinking of some kind of speaker , while the sti comes with a speaker, are there speakers that would work without needed the 12 volt pwer source, or would a speaker not work on the ear jack?

Sti speaker is too big to mount in my helmet

The ear jacks on Bel/Escort radar detectors provide very little power and are designed to only be able to be coupled to fairly high impedance loads such as line level inputs or to an earphone. You can not power any type of conventional non-amplified low impedance speaker via the ear jack. You can, however, plug in any type of monaural amplified speaker which has a high impedance input. Amplified CB speakers should work nicely. Bel/Escort doesn't specify what the minimum acceptable impedance is for the earphone jacks on their radar detectors, but anything above 100 Ohms should be safe. Most every amplified speaker that I have seen has an input impedance of at least 5K Ohms, making them perfectly safe to use. Note that the amplified speaker's plug must be a mono plug rather than a stereo plug. If the plug is a stereo plug (three contacts) then you will have to use a stereo to mono adapter plug.

Just for kicks, a couple of years ago I used stereo to a mono plug adapter plus a stereo cable to plug my V995 into the high impedance input jack on the front of my car stereo. It was wicked hearing the alerts coming out of all four of my car stereo's speakers!

[Lucky225]

Well,

I beat instant on, with the bike again today, seems leos are just as disavantaged as the populace is with instant on, just who has the quickest draw. I was shut down 2 seconds before he fired and got the alert. It was a close call. over a rise and him oncoming within 5o yards

On my bike, I can be braked and drop 20'mph, before a vehicle driver can even let off the accelerator.

To my question , getting tired with summer heat, running an ear jack. Thinking of some kind of speaker , while the sti comes with a speaker, are there speakers that would work without needed the 12 volt pwer source, or would a speaker not work on the ear jack?

Sti speaker is too big to mount in my helmet

The ear jacks on Bel/Escort radar detectors provide very little power and are designed to only be able to be coupled to fairly high impedance loads such as line level inputs or to an earphone. You can not power any type of conventional non-amplified low impedance speaker via the ear jack. You can, however, plug in any type of monaural amplified speaker which has a high impedance input. Amplified CB speakers should work nicely. Bel/Escort doesn't specify what the minimum acceptable impedance is for the earphone jacks on their radar detectors, but anything above 100 Ohms should be safe. Most every amplified speaker that I have seen has an input impedance of at least 5K Ohms, making them perfectly safe to use. Note that the amplified speaker's plug must be a mono plug rather than a stereo plug. If the plug is a stereo plug (three contacts) then you will have to use a stereo to mono adapter plug.

Just for kicks, a couple of years ago I used stereo to a mono plug adapter plus a stereo cable to plug my V995 into the high impedance input jack on the front of my car stereo. It was wicked hearing the alerts coming out of all four of my car stereo's speakers!

You know what I use MEM-TEK when I had the SRX?

Mini Audio Amplifier - RadioShack.com

It works great as a speaker AND has an output for earphones and amplifies the incoming signal, as long as you don't turn it all the way to max(this will distort the audio), it works great!! I had a male-to-male from srx in to the speaker, then I'd run the speaker by it's self OR male-to-male into audio in on my car stereo.

[dpatel01]

Just for kicks, a couple of years ago I used stereo to a mono plug adapter plus a stereo cable to plug my V995 into the high impedance input jack on the front of my car stereo. It was wicked hearing the alerts coming out of all four of my car stereo's speakers!

Roll the windows down, open the sunroof, slowly drive through a speed trap with the alerts at full volume while you are being targeted. Voice alerts enabled if you like, and this may work better at night in a residential neighborhood that would otherwise be quiet as a dead mouse.

[Lucky225]

Just for kicks, a couple of years ago I used stereo to a mono plug adapter plus a stereo cable to plug my V995 into the high impedance input jack on the front of my car stereo. It was wicked hearing the alerts coming out of all four of my car stereo's speakers!

Roll the windows down, open the sunroof, slowly drive through a speed trap with the alerts at full volume while you are being targeted. Voice alerts enabled if you like, and this may work better at night in a residential neighborhood that would otherwise be quiet as a dead mouse.

I wish my car stereo's Audio In would work as a radio mute, it'd be awesome for the music to mute out with "KA BAND!"