Radar detectors
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icb

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782 posts

286 months

Saturday 30th November 2002
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Have had Snooper SLD 920 fitted to Chimaera. At first was going off when obviously no speed cameras anywhere.Sent a voltage regulator by firm to have fitted. Now goes off all the time. Has anyone had success or same problems with this detector.Thanks in advance.

ssc1

456 posts

278 months

Sunday 1st December 2002
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they do tend to go off quite alot ,traffic lights,house alarms,and other signals set them off,but you soon get to learn when it is a speed trap or speed camera as it makes a different noise for each radar or laser device ,i have one on my car and have had it for a couple of years now and it has saved my licence by warning me of trouble in front ,it only works from behind if the signal is reflected off another vehicle first so beware....

deltaf

1,384 posts

274 months

Sunday 1st December 2002
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Hi ICB.
Yeah i too have had this problem.
I found that if the sld was turned on and the engine was off, it never had a problem.
If the engine is running then it goes into some kind of weird false alarm.
Also when the engines running if you switch the sld on, itll not make the usual self test whistle, but sounds distorted.
I tried changing my power feed point from inside the car to the battery.
So far it made NO difference.
Having seen what you have put about the volts regulator you fitted, id have to say that i think the problem is a "dirty" power supply, as its ok when the engines not running.
I think ill try a noise filter in the power feed next, either a hardwired jobby or maybe a couple of ferrite rings wrapped in the power feed wiring.
Hope this helps.

deltaf

1,384 posts

274 months

Sunday 1st December 2002
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SSc1 is i thnk talking about radar detectors.
Sld 920 wont go off with anything less than a laser,OR as i found out in testing it, you can get it to go off if you aim 3 or more TV or video remotes at it all at the same time.
It jams perfectly while doing this.
Id say that theres no way itll go off in normal use, as it only reacts to pulsed infra red.

roop

6,012 posts

301 months

Sunday 1st December 2002
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The SLD920 shouldn't react at all to any RADAR sources, only LIDAR. The only time mine falses is when driving into a brightand low evening sun or sometimes those LED rear brakelights set it off.

Send it back and say it don't work. I'm on my 3rd pair or SLD920's now in as many years.