WRONG DECISION to buy pro 78!

[guit123]

sorry to say that,i feel so bad that i bought the whitler pro 78!i think it is as same as corba detector, it is a junk!first i only have the k band alert 100 meter b4 the radar if i drive 65 km/h,but if i drive at 90km/h i can only receive the alert after i pass the radar,this means that is no use for detect the radar!secound my place only use rear laser to check the speeding car and the pro 78 only have a small lens to detect the rear laser hit from rear!and today i was driving 73km/h and a police use a laser gun to hit me form the rear,my junk pro 78 didn't have any alert and because of that i got a ticket!i will sell my pro 78 and buy a V1,i am very regret to buy the pro 78!i did some research b4 i bought the pro 78,even Rardar Roy said it is a good detector!but finally i found out it is a piece of junk only!

looks like u need to catch up on lot of radar / laser usage scenarios.
99% of pro 78 users are happy with it so either u got a bad unit or u have some kind of high end windshield which is causing problems. try in a different car if you can.

even v1 cant save u from laser, so dont buy v1 just to get a laser alert and then a ticket. get a jammer.. seems to be the only solution for you.

[joseph12]

thanks a lot!yes english is not my first language! But thanks for all your suggestion!i will buy a laser jammer to avoid rear laser in the future!

[jdong]

Also, Cobras don't perform like crap 100% of the time either -- in fact, I've found their off-axis K-band detection to be quite nice. Where Cobras fail is their HORRIBLE consistency -- one encounter might give you 1 minute warning, the next one might give you 2 seconds time before you see the cop. Whistlers will offer you much more consistent detection rates, so please test with more than just a K-band target. Ka band tends to be Cobra's major weakness too, as well as falsing.

Additionally, I'm not sure what kind of K-band radar you are dealing with, but the Whistlers even in filter 2 have less than half a second delay max from receiving a signal to sounding the alert (many other even top-notch detectors will wait 2x or 3x that time) so there's no reason why a 30km/h increase in your speed will cause such a late detection unless it's some really low-power photo radar or something.

And as others have pointed out, laser is a dangerous thing for any passive countermeasure.

[John_in_NC]

I heard Rev C is okay.
Yes the V1 is better but what you got just ain't working right.

[happya$$]

comparing a V! ($400) to a Pro 78 ($130) is not a fair comparison in terms of raw sensitivity

[rose1]

Don't sit there and bash the pro 78 just because you don't know how to use it. I guarantee if you had a V1, you'd still get a ticket. A detector is not a free pass to speed. I don't care what brand it is. A radar detector helps you avoid a ticket but you have to help yourself too..... More than the detector. BTW, I'm tired of seeing that crappy chart from GOL showing the pro 78 way at the bottom. Show me a test with the pro 78 rev C.

[Ovencleaner]

Don't sit there and bash the pro 78 just because you don't know how to use it. I guarantee if you had a V1, you'd still get a ticket. A detector is not a free pass to speed. I don't care what brand it is. A radar detector helps you avoid a ticket but you have to help yourself too..... More than the detector. BTW, I'm tired of seeing that crappy chart from GOL showing the pro 78 way at the bottom. Show me a test with the pro 78 rev C.

Exactly. Also, look at the march testing. Pro 78 did very respectable. When Rev C is tested, they will stop laughing.... 8)

[djrams80]

Don't sit there and bash the pro 78 just because you don't know how to use it. I guarantee if you had a V1, you'd still get a ticket. A detector is not a free pass to speed. I don't care what brand it is. A radar detector helps you avoid a ticket but you have to help yourself too..... More than the detector. BTW, I'm tired of seeing that crappy chart from GOL showing the pro 78 way at the bottom. Show me a test with the pro 78 rev C.

Exactly. Also, look at the march testing. Pro 78 did very respectable. When Rev C is tested, they will stop laughing.... 8)

I think, in general, that most of the experienced people talk pretty highly of the Pro 78 on this board. Man, you can't beat it for the price. No different than the Bel Vector series as far as detection goes, IMO. The people that start these "Pro 78 sucks" threads are usually first timers, with little to no credibility. No one takes them seriously.

[joseph12]

come on man and whistler's fans.I only want to tell what i feel after i bought the pro 78!ONE word can express all my feeling "DSAPPOINTED"!Pls read the test result seriously or try to mount pro 78 in your car then u will know pro 78 is not worth to buy!I only don't want other ppl regret after buying that RD.Now i am really upset cos i chose Pro 78 !whistler's fans pls wake up and see the fact,don't live in you dream.Before i recieve my unit ,i was whistler's big fans like all the ppl here.But after i use it,i feel i am stupid to chose that machine!

[Ovencleaner]

come on man and whistler's fans.I only want to tell what i feel after i bought the pro 78!ONE word can express all my feeling "DSAPPOINTED"!Pls read the test result seriously or try to mount pro 78 in your car then u will know pro 78 is not worth to buy!I only don't want other ppl regret after buying that RD.Now i am really upset cos i chose Pro 78 !whistler's fans pls wake up and see the fact,don't live in you dream.Before i recieve my unit ,i was whistler's big fans like all the ppl here.But after i use it,i feel i am stupid to chose that machine!

For the last time, even if you Pro 78 alerted to laser, you would have gotten a ticket.

This is my last response troll.