I haven't been able to reproduce it with any regularity. Sometimes it won't go off at all. Other times I'm in the car and it will go off every few minutes during my entire trip. It seems to alert me of laser more often in the morning. My morning commute is about 15 mins. Several times I've walked into the garage, opened the garage door, got in the car, started it, and then the laser warning will sound. The garage door has an opener, but it opens quickly. So, it isn't still running by the time I get in the car and start it. This morning it happened to me. I muted the unit, and after a few seconds the warning stopped. I pulled out of the garage, hit the button for the opener, watched the door close, pulled out of the driveway, got halfway down the street, and the laser warning sounded again. I muted it, and watched the display for the warning to go away. A few minutes later it sounded again. It didn't sound anymore after that, but i was at work less than 5 mins. later. During my lunch break I went out to grab something... no warnings at all. Strange.

 

My Ka was going batshiat crazy yesterday on the way home from work. strong, continuous Ka ALWAYS means cop, but there were none to be seen - yet it was moving and behind me too.

Found out it was an SUV with a BEL detector in the windshield a few lights later when the arrows told me the source was "next" to me and I took a peek.

 

Bel detectors are usually pretty good - at least the high end ones. Cheap detectors seem to set off both my V1s and the 8500 from time to time. Easier to spot with a V1 since you get the arrows.

Sunlight at the right angle would set off the laser indicator on a cheap detector I once had

Dennis

 

i once was given a $30 Cobra detector by a kind but relatively unknowing friend, and my in dash CD player would set the laser off constantly.....

i think it may still be lying somewhere on the side of the road in North Louisiana... (j/k)

 

Hey Philip,

I think I had one of them too

F1DNA

Sebring/Black

T.D.

 

I got lit up for the first time with laser today. The V1 acted just like it was another false alarm. I didn't get nailed 'cause I knew this area was a speed trap, saw the cop a long time before the alert, and watched him aim it at me and fire it as I passed.

The laser alerts are interesting but not like the radar alerts. False alarms sound distinctive once you hear a few and then hear a few real alerts. A real radar hit in the city (short range) and you'd thing the detector was going to suddenly blow up by the racket it makes. Long range alerts like those on the highway start off low and build up as time goes by.

False alarms are always short and fleeting.

 

TD -- really? i think mine was a Walmart special, but i can't be 100% sure. thankfully, i was never asked how i liked it... then, i would have had to admit that it was great and made a wonderful thump/crashing noise when it hit the ground.




my experiences with Laser have definitely been of a 'burst' nature. one second not there, next second full on. (honestly though, i think that's how the 8500 alerts for laser anyway.)

glad to hear you didn't get nabbed.

btw rworne -- i'm not sure whether to fear and flee from or love and laugh at your freaky avatar.

 

[QUOTE=PJK3,Aug 12 2005, 01:47 PM] my experiences with Laser have definitely been of a 'burst' nature.

 

My laser hits are always at night, on a certain side road and the cops always has that look of "WTF" when I go past them.

I had a chance to attend the NHRA semi-final two weeks ago in Seattle so I drove up. While heading thru the pass area around sunset on the way home I was in the area of 84MPH and was lit up by laser. The guy was standing outside his driver door aiming right at me when I flew past him.

I looked at him..... He looked at me.....

I jammed him right to the gun.

JUST as I'm passing him, I see him looking with that quizzical stare at the rear panel of that laser gun.. He's probably still tellings his buddys about the one that got away.

 

Do you have a front tag and is there where your laser jammer is mounted?

We don't require front tags here, so they may aim at a headlight or various other parts of the car. From the tests I have read, if they don't aim where your jammer is mounted then it will likely do no good - so folks in front plate states have an avantage since that makes a nice aim point for the cops on any car.

I guess someone in a no front plate state could always but a nice, shiny blank plate on the the front of the car so they would be tempted to aim at it (and the jammer)

Dennis