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  1. #1
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    Default Heavy concern with angled shots.

    Ok so a friend of mine brought an interesting point to my attention about angle shots. Most of testing happens right from the side of a 2 lane or 1 lane road, or straight out right? Well many of the highways here have between 3 and 6 lanes, and of course the troopers are well off to the side and naturally are going to shoot you from an angle rather than straight on. I had a couple troopers shoot me and before I killed the jammers, they stopped, either because they got a PT or just got tired of wasting time trying to hit me and wanted to move on to other cars.

    Needless to say it still raised concerned so I rented the Truspeed and took the car out to a good test road, but I parked myself at an approximate 20 degree angle. Sure enough I got a PT on my Driver Side HL (35mph @ 650FT!!!), 2 consecutive times. Everything else seemed to be JTG though.

    I attached some pictures of my jammers from all different angles maybe the driveside diode is misaligned? Or is angel shooting just a big threat to me, baring in mind that the jammer heads are aimed straight ahead and can't shoot to the side.

    I know LIDAR has the cosine effect too, and I will lose a few MPH on the reading, but if I'm doing 90 and I get clocked at 86 doesn't do me much good.

    Any help (Cliff you out there?) would be greatly appreciated. See below.

    Thanks!
    Xen0n




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    Default Re: Heavy concern with angled shots.

    looks like you need to level your heads
    and test again.before you see them turn unit off

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    Default Re: Heavy concern with angled shots.

    Come to an ECCTG testing meet so we can test and offer opinions how you can improve your performance.

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    Default Re: Heavy concern with angled shots.

    Rob is right. If you look at the driver side head, it looks like its pointing down. The other is going slightly up. Plus they are not level with each other. Get that baby tuned now!

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    Default Re: Heavy concern with angled shots.

    Quote Originally Posted by yellowcab View Post
    Come to an ECCTG testing meet so we can test and offer opinions how you can improve your performance.
    Where and when?

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    Default Re: Heavy concern with angled shots.

    Quote Originally Posted by Xen0n flash View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by yellowcab View Post
    Come to an ECCTG testing meet so we can test and offer opinions how you can improve your performance.
    Where and when?
    A link that is allowed to be posted: http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...tate-area.html

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    Default Re: Heavy concern with angled shots.

    To have an angle of gun to car of 20 degrees, with a recorded distance of 650 ft. Would place you 220 ft horizontally away from the target

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    Default Re: Heavy concern with angled shots.

    .
    Last edited by DrCoke; 09-20-2011 at 10:50 PM.

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    Default Re: Heavy concern with angled shots.

    Your current placement setup is not idea for off axis shots.
    The key to off axis protection is having your sensors as far apart width wise as possible.
    For example:

    Your heads are currently to central.
    The farther apart you go (without putting them in that lower grille!) the better protection you will get but you don't want to open up the center to much. If you want really good off axis coverage you may need to switch to a trihead or quad in the front as a few of us have done.

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    Default Re: Heavy concern with angled shots.

    .........
    Last edited by mrkookm; 04-24-2011 at 09:29 PM.

 

 

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