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Originally posted by 98SVT_LEO:
Radar detectors are a waste of money! As police radar has a fancy on/off toggle switch, which simple means by the time your detector picks up the radio signals that are bouncing around its far too late........just a thought!
Only specifically designed instant on units can do that. Conventional radar guns need to run all the time.
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Originally posted by TommySVT:
Originally posted by 98SVT_LEO:
Radar detectors are a waste of money! As police radar has a fancy on/off toggle switch, which simple means by the time your detector picks up the radio signals that are bouncing around its far too late........just a thought!
When they hit the cars in front of you, any half decent radar detector can pick up the signal with enough time for you to correct your speed.
And for fooling laser, it can be done. A black Corvette and 4th gen T/A with no plate is almost impossible to get a speed from a laser gun. Black paint absorbs all light including laser beams. Also, you can drastically reduce the distance for when a laser gun will grab a reading by using lighting. Two or more high powered lights ( like offroad lights) will produce enough garbage ultraviolet lighting to confuse the laser gun when it's trying to recieve the laser beam it shot at your car. I know driving around with off road lights on is illegal, but if you put ultra violet filters on them, they look like they are off, but they will still be able to send out the lighting needed to confuse the laser guns. This has been tried and tested by a major car magazine with amazing results.
Just substitute Infra-red for Ultraviolet and you got it right. One of the magazines used 1 Million CP landing lights from a plane. Put IR filters from Edmund Scientific over the lamps. They look off (the filters are dark red) but essentially blind the laser.
Of course, you need a 500 amp alternator to keep the lights going and the Alternator drag will slow you down below the limit so you won't need to worry anyway 
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Supposedly the laser jammers the major companies sell actually work. You place them near your license plate or it's actual plate frame and since that's where cops almost always aim, it works.
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Supposedly the laser jammers the major companies sell actually work. You place them near your license plate or it's actual plate frame and since that's where cops almost always aim, it works.
Believe it or not, laser jammers are legal under FEDERAL law. Laser guns aren't regulated by the FCC, which bans jamming, but by the FDA, which has no jamming regulations!
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Originally posted by PackRat:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Supposedly the laser jammers the major companies sell actually work. You place them near your license plate or it's actual plate frame and since that's where cops almost always aim, it works.
Believe it or not, laser jammers are legal under FEDERAL law. Laser guns aren't regulated by the FCC, which bans jamming, but by the FDA, which has no jamming regulations!
Laser jammers are now banned in a few states. They took the initative since the FDA wasn't going to do it.
K40 makes a great laser jammer.
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Originally posted by PackRat:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Supposedly the laser jammers the major companies sell actually work. You place them near your license plate or it's actual plate frame and since that's where cops almost always aim, it works.
Believe it or not, laser jammers are legal under FEDERAL law. Laser guns aren't regulated by the FCC, which bans jamming, but by the FDA, which has no jamming regulations!
FDA? Food and Drug Administration?
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Originally posted by Beowulf:
Originally posted by PackRat:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Supposedly the laser jammers the major companies sell actually work. You place them near your license plate or it's actual plate frame and since that's where cops almost always aim, it works.
Believe it or not, laser jammers are legal under FEDERAL law. Laser guns aren't regulated by the FCC, which bans jamming, but by the FDA, which has no jamming regulations!
FDA? Food and Drug Administration?
Yes. Since a laser isn't a radio wave, it's not considered controlled by the FCC, so they put it under FDA jurisdiction, don't ask me why!
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