Quirky radar detector?
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Quirky radar detector?
My BEL 980 sounds off a laser alert when I take it and hold it over the passenger side cup holder. Has anyone else had this experience? I've moved it away and it stops, but when I move it back to the area it resumes chirping laser.
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Originally Posted by ACUpunctuRA
My BEL 980 sounds off a laser alert when I take it and hold it over the passenger side cup holder. Has anyone else had this experience? I've moved it away and it stops, but when I move it back to the area it resumes chirping laser.
THe doc says, "well don't do that".
Don't hold you radar detector over your cup holder. It works better on your windshield.
I'm being a smart a$$.
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In my ody the escorts have the tendency to give a laser warning when accelerating briskly from a stop. I think that is has to do with the momentary voltage change when you accelerate. It has happened with my 2 escorts and on 3 different odys. My integrated Bel on my RL does not have the problem, neither have my past escorts on my TL's.
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Had the same laser warning when I take my Bel RX65 off its holder and fiddle with it near the center stack console area. Don't know if it is the LCD from the display screen or whether it is something else ?? Could the blueish night lights trigger a laser warning on our detectors ?
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Originally Posted by NJ06RL
Had the same laser warning when I take my Bel RX65 off its holder and fiddle with it near the center stack console area. Don't know if it is the LCD from the display screen or whether it is something else ?? Could the blueish night lights trigger a laser warning on our detectors ?
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Another strange discovery: My BEL RX65 sometimes goes into self calibration mode and sometimes into "service required" warning mode when I place it over the front speaker on the dash. Then I used the RX 65 in a rental car I used for 3 days - no failures at all. Now I'm attaching it to the right of the dash speaker and it has not failed in 2 days. Maybe my dash speaker was causing some kind of interference which messed up the Bel RX65 ?
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Originally Posted by NJ06RL
Another strange discovery: My BEL RX65 sometimes goes into self calibration mode and sometimes into "service required" warning mode when I place it over the front speaker on the dash. Then I used the RX 65 in a rental car I used for 3 days - no failures at all. Now I'm attaching it to the right of the dash speaker and it has not failed in 2 days. Maybe my dash speaker was causing some kind of interference which messed up the Bel RX65 ?
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Originally Posted by sotiri
yeah, all lcd displays emit an infrared that triggers laser detectors
There are many types of light sources used for this, and I don't know what Acura uses, but I seriously doubt that they universally put out enough IR to set off a laser detector.
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