9500ix False LASER Alerts

[SuperSpeeder21]

I've had my 9500ix for about two months now and mostly do city driving. I have yet to have a laser alert from anywhere I've driven.

I was driving with my friend and he wanted to see what all the fuss was about with the 9500ix, so I took it out and mounted it in his car.

Driving around late at night in foggy weather we approach a light I've been to multiple times, and all of a sudden LASER ALERT. I'm thinking no way,

no cop is shooting laser on this stretch of road especially in the fog. Keep in mind I've never seen a cop running Laser in the 3 years I've driven this area.

I blow it off as nothing then as we head back about two miles further away from the highway it goes off again LASER ALERT. There is clearly no cop to be seen

anywhere.


I'm just wondering what could have caused this and why would it happen so far apart. I've never seen anyone with laser or been alerted to it until then and I'm

about 95% sure it was a false alert

[hugo2x]

possibly the motion sensors that triggers some signal lights to change. I believe they use some sort of photo sensor, maybe it emitted a short burst of light in the ~904nm range? Also, I'm no physics major but can frequency be effect by density of air/refraction from glass?

[SuperSpeeder21]

I'm convinced it didn't have anything to do with the lights because I've come up to them many times with no alerts. Then later on down the road we are passing though a light I hit every day going to and from school never having an alert, then it goes LASER again. So what you are saying is that occasionally lights will emit laser that can be picked up through the detector? If so I've never heard of that before.

Also please explain the glass density refraction thing?

[EscortRadar]

It is possible to get laser alerts to certain LED lights. Maybe the slope of your friend's windshield was helping the false alerts. This is pretty rare though. Was there any other cars around? Maybe one had a lane change warning or a similar system which can use laser and will cause laser alerts.

If it alerted only when you accelerated then your friend's lighter socket is probably electrically noisy. We can detune the laser circuit slightly to eliminate this.

[M4lic3]

My 9500ix gets a false laser alert every time I pass radar tower next to the road at the Air Force base that I work at. I can literally watch the radar dish rotating around and get the corresponding alert every time the dish turns back towards me. Does the detector have the ability to store false laser alerts to eliminate this nuisance? Thanks.

[M4lic3]

It is possible to get laser alerts to certain LED lights. Maybe the slope of your friend's windshield was helping the false alerts. This is pretty rare though. Was there any other cars around? Maybe one had a lane change warning or a similar system which can use laser and will cause laser alerts.

If it alerted only when you accelerated then your friend's lighter socket is probably electrically noisy. We can detune the laser circuit slightly to eliminate this.

My 9500ix gets a false laser alert every time I pass a radar tower next to the road at the Air Force base that I work at. I can literally watch the radar dish rotating around and get the corresponding alert every time the dish turns back towards me. Does the detector have the ability to store false laser alerts to eliminate this nuisance? Thanks.