Three problems with Bel RX65 Radar Detector

[Lucozade17]

Problem 1: "Low Volt" on start up...suggestions? It is in my Mini.

Problem 2: I get 10-15 second long laser bursts when behind a large truck or car and sometime when facing direct sunlight. I will also get random laser alerts at night...HID headlights?

Problem 3: I was approaching my local speed sign and I got absolutely no warning until I was the next car to be targeted. It has never done this before, it usually alerts me at the beginning of the road (1/2 mile). When it did alert me, it alerted K-band and flashed full strength.

No calibration warning either.

I will try a hard restart tomorrow and see if that is any luck.

[The STIG]

Sounds like a typical RX65....

[TSi+WRX]

Originally Posted by Lucozade17

Problem 2: I get 10-15 second long laser bursts when behind a large truck or car and sometime when facing direct sunlight. I will also get random laser alerts at night...HID headlights?

Unfortunately, I'm ill-equipped to answer any Bel-related questions as I'm neither a user of their detectors (although I used to be), and also have not paid enough attention to their recent technologies.

However....

In terms of HID headlights eliciting laser falses on Bel/Escort products, this is possible.

Although it never happened on my old Rev5 x50, it *did* present itself, once, very recently, on my 9500i (4307).

While I never experience such falses from vehicles which have their HIDs already engaged, the singular episode during which I *did* receive a false presented as the vehicle switched on its (aftermarket) HIDs just as I was passing within close proximity, and the angle of that vehicle and its headlights presented a direct shot to my 9500i.

It was the first such false I'd ever experienced.

Other known sources which can elicit laser falses, that may contribute to what you're observing, includes LED brake-light elements, which is now commonplace on commercial trucking vehicles and their trailers. Although this is typically more problematic with the more laser-sensitive V1s, it has been reported on Bel/Escort products, too.

Direct sunlight is also capable of eliciting falsing (my rear ZR3 element is very prone to such falses, particularly if the sunlight is rapidly "shuttered" at-speed: I can reproduce the effect with good consistency at appx. 35 to 40 MPH road-speed, on a bright and sunny day, on a densely enough tree-lined street) on the Bel/Escort products.

[davekr]

Originally Posted by The STIG

Sounds like a typical RX65....

Yep like StIG said it's working like they do......