Origin B2, Road Angel 2, or Road pilot?
Discussion
I suggest you read the reviews of all the devices on www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk. I picked up an Origin b2 myself the other day and can recommend it. My observations so far are:
Good:
Nice and small head unit.
Inconspicious laser detector to go on the windscreen. Might give you some chance of picking up "scatter" from the unfortunate ahead of you as he is targeted by the scamerati.
Very easy to use menu system.
So far picked up *all* the cameras I've passed.
Easily loud enough warning beeps (even in the TVR).
Excellent customer service (there was a minor problem with mine and they instantly extended my subscription by 4 weeks and offered to send me a fixed/replaced head unit the day they received mine. They were also very polite, helpful etc - feels like you're well looked after).
Can be wired into a garage door opener.
Bad:
No hard-wire kit with the unit.
Laser detector set off by electrical noise in my car (they're sending me a magnetic donut to fix this but these are cheap and IMHO should be included with the unit).
Cradle is fine but has poor mounting system. I want to mount my unit below eye level but the mounting plate at the back of the cradle is hinged from the bottom of the cradle, so the unit can only be angled downwards and not upwards. I'm going to have to make a mount to deal with this which is a bit disappointing on a 400 quid bit of kit.
Voice alarms aren't terribly clear, but it's not the end of the world (the warning beep alerts you and the display tells you the rest).
Er.. that's it.
edited to fix the extra dot in the link - Ted, that's a bug in the parser IMO as no well-formed url ever ends with a dot
>> Edited by alexf on Saturday 27th November 17:29
Good:
Nice and small head unit.
Inconspicious laser detector to go on the windscreen. Might give you some chance of picking up "scatter" from the unfortunate ahead of you as he is targeted by the scamerati.
Very easy to use menu system.
So far picked up *all* the cameras I've passed.
Easily loud enough warning beeps (even in the TVR).
Excellent customer service (there was a minor problem with mine and they instantly extended my subscription by 4 weeks and offered to send me a fixed/replaced head unit the day they received mine. They were also very polite, helpful etc - feels like you're well looked after).
Can be wired into a garage door opener.
Bad:
No hard-wire kit with the unit.
Laser detector set off by electrical noise in my car (they're sending me a magnetic donut to fix this but these are cheap and IMHO should be included with the unit).
Cradle is fine but has poor mounting system. I want to mount my unit below eye level but the mounting plate at the back of the cradle is hinged from the bottom of the cradle, so the unit can only be angled downwards and not upwards. I'm going to have to make a mount to deal with this which is a bit disappointing on a 400 quid bit of kit.
Voice alarms aren't terribly clear, but it's not the end of the world (the warning beep alerts you and the display tells you the rest).
Er.. that's it.
edited to fix the extra dot in the link - Ted, that's a bug in the parser IMO as no well-formed url ever ends with a dot
>> Edited by alexf on Saturday 27th November 17:29
erm you added an extra "." in your link!
Try here...
www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/
>> Edited by SpudGunner on Saturday 27th November 07:51
Try here...
www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/
>> Edited by SpudGunner on Saturday 27th November 07:51
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