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Do you have your 895 hardwired, or plugged in through the cigarette lighter? I'm also even more curious if you "power up" the detector manually, or just leave it turned on so that when you start your car it comes on automatically. Seems I've heard that leaving it on constantly to fire up when the can starts can cause problems, and that the best way to use it is to power it on manually. I'm interested in hearing what others have to say about that....
Hi SportsFan, I have a CB Radio and an XM Satellite Radio hooked up to a triple power outlet... I might be paranoic but I like to turn them on/off manually, I don't know but I think when you fire-up the engine some very short electric shock goes to all electric units you have connected to the cigarette lighter... and it doesn't bother me at all do it by handOriginally Posted by SportsFan
Thanks Road Warrior, that is pretty much what I was thinking as well. Powering it on manually is not a problem for me either.
BTW....in the past couple of days since purchasing the detector, I've had 2 K band encounters with police radar, and in each instance, I was pretty pleased and impressed with the results.
I got 1.1 miles on K over a slightly and consistently hilly terrain....straight road (highway leading a rural area into the city)....where the LEO already had someone pulled over. He was facing towards me, and just as I approached and became even with the officer, he turned off his lights and pulled out onto the road....so I was pretty impressed with the distance there (especially considering the hilly terrain).
Today, I turned onto a road that leads by a local high school. As soon as I turned on to this road, I began receiving a K band alert. After a few hundred feet, this road turns fairly sharply, albeit a rather slow turn....so as soon as you turn on to this road you can't see around the turn. But as soon as I turned on to the road, a K band alert goes off. Once I pass through the turn, I can then see the officer in full view in the median of the road several hundred feet ahead sitting stationary. I would say it was probably another 5 or 6 hundred feet or so before I came even with and passed him.....but as soon as I came through the turn, the alert was at full strength. I continued receiving a rear alert for a few hundred feet once I passed him as well (and enterd into the next curve in the road).
So the alerts, strengths and distances in these two encounters were pretty impressive. One thing I don't like about the detector is that the full alert isn't much different audibly than when it is at 1/6 or 2/6. You almost have to be looking at the RD to tell that it is at full....but that withstanding, it still seems to provide very good detection and range......
I keep my S2 very close to my ears, on the dashboard, so I can hear all the alerts... each band, X, K, Ka and Laser, have each a totally different audible sound, each goes by beeps, the further you are from the radar source the fewer bars on the display and fewer audible beeps, the closer you get to the radar source the number of bars increases and so the audible beeps and finally you get a continous beep... only laser alerts are always on a full alert, you always get hit with a full blast of laser... all I know about is my S2, I have no experience with other RDs, possible each one is different to the others...
If you drive a lot on the highways ( "open road" ), I strongly recommend a CB Radio with a very good antenna, you have no idea how many "bear updates" you get from "highway angels", how I use to call truckers, also all the road conditions, all in real time, so a CB with a very good antenna is also a very good investment...
Happy and Safe driving :wink:
Hi RW,
I wish that the Bel's alerted like the Escorts do (full alert, audible-wise). I can hear the alerts just fine, that's not the problem. The thing is...they don't exactly "ramp up" in relation to the proximity of the radar gun, so that the closer you get to the gun, the "faster" the alert would sound. It would be nice if they went to "FULL alert" as a constant tone, but they don't....and that's what I meant by "the full alert isn't much different audibly than when it is at 1/6 or 2/6. You almost have to be looking at the RD to tell that it is at full".....
1) Maybe that's how this particular model is built, only somebody who has used your model can tell exactly if yours malfuction or not...
2) If you bought it brand-new, from a reputable retailer, Circuit City, Best Buy, etc., and it's still within the 30-day warranty, you can easily go back to the store and either ask for an exchange or for a full refund... after I bought mine from Billings, Montana until I crossed the border back to Ontario (7-8 days), I tested it on the road AND change it TWICE, I just went to other BestBuy stores (one in Duluth, Minessota, other in Michigan), returned it with the original receipt and got another one, brand-new of course, they just asked me what was wrong with it, I said that it did not detect any radar, they asked me if I want another one or a full refund...
Not to be a smarta$$, but that is what fuses are for!Hi SportsFan, I have a CB Radio and an XM Satellite Radio hooked up to a triple power outlet... I might be paranoic but I like to turn them on/off manually, I don't know but I think when you fire-up the engine some very short electric shock goes to all electric units you have connected to the cigarette lighter... and it doesn't bother me at all do it by hand :lol:
That's great SportsFan! I get really good range too. However, I definitely can tell when my RD is at a 2 vs full threat! Scares the shet out of me what it goes full threat!.
And why would I have to get there to burn the fuse when I can use something that God allows me to use all the time, my hands, fingers, eyes and my memory... you do it in your own way, no problem with that, I do it my way, no problem as well... maybe I'm too conservative and rely more on my own traditional instinct than on fuses... fair enough :wink:
That means his Vector does not working properly :?: :?: :?: That's what he would like to know about his very recently purchased RD so he could go back to the store and exchange it or get the money back...
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