Bel STI Ramp up Fix

[samq45]

Actually on my RX-65 and my STI in TEC mode I see the frequency display and the light on my direct power cord come up ever so slightly before the audio alert is heard. This has been posted and discussed on the other fourm and is common with the Bels in this mode.

[Virus]

Originally Posted by samq45

Actually on my RX-65 and my STI in TEC mode I see the frequency display and the light on my direct power cord come up ever so slightly before the audio alert is heard. This has been posted and discussed on the other fourm and is common with the Bels in this mode.

Light travels faster than sound

[PyrotiX]

I believe light travels at 300,000 km per second.. so unless you have some type of superhuman glance there may be some delay.

[tactical22]

Originally Posted by PyrotiX

I believe light travels at 300,000 km per second.. so unless you have some type of superhuman glance there may be some delay.

yes I believe this guy has a super human glance!

[Virus]

Bel shipped my STi with the audio ramp up fix yesterday. It should be here either tomorrow or Thursday at the very latest.

[davekr]

Originally Posted by Specialchicken

unfortunatly Bel wont listen to us and fix it either.

It's a bell chicken.....what do you expect?

[Virus]

Well, the wait is officially over. Upon arriving at home I immediately unboxed and installed my "fixed" Beltronics STi Driver. Bel was nice enough to send the STi back with a new cigarette lighter adapter and new suction cups and mount. The repair tag said, "I performed the following repair on your unit: update software, repaired antenna." "Ramp up", was listed on the repair card under the professionally tuned section and under the, "May we be of any further assistance?" section X, CVC, SW was hand written.

I then proceeded to go out for a test drive. I was able to find an officer running 35.5 ka and several k band auto door sensors. I wish that I had another STi to compare with or at least taken a video of my STi before sending it in for repair. My returned unit seems less sensitive overall, but only time will tell if this is indeed true. While testing k band door sensors, I suddenly picked up 35.5 ka and it was strong. I noticed an officer sitting at the end of the shopping centers parking lot. She was filling out paperwork and not paying any attention to her surroundings. Unfortunately, I just couldn't get enough distance to properly assess the newly "fixed" STi.

Impressions: K band appeared worse than before. Instead of a slow/fast alert, I am now getting a really slow/medium alert. Ka I have mixed feelings about. As I mentioned before, this will take some time to fully assess and I need to find more officers running radar. Ka appears to have 3 speeds now, but the maximum alert appears much slower than before. Before sending it in, I remember two distinct alert speeds. Slow was beep-beep and fast was beep-beep-beep-beep. Now it's more like beep, beep-beep and beep-beep-beep, but absolutely no really fast alerts. It's actually much more difficult to gauge the threat than before. With the officer not paying attention I was able to visually assess the alerts with audio. On K band, it beeps slow until 6 and medium above that. With Ka, it appeared to not start alerting semi quickly until around 7.

In conclusion, I am extremely disappointed with my returned unit. In all fairness however, I have been riding with my V1 for a week now and my results could be a little off. The V1 has the absolute perfect audio and visual ramp up. I will keep everyone informed after I spend some seat time with my "fixed" STi.

[tactical22]

very sorry to hear...once again beltronics lets down the consumers.

[PyrotiX]

[Xen0nFlash]

Any news on this yet? I called Bel/Escort up today. The guy (who they call a customer service rep) pretty much gave me the same push backs as have been mentioned earlier in this thread nor was the ramp up issue acknowledged or confirmed. I'm not paying $60.00 for a week without my STi and then get it back with a note saying "works fine, no problems with the ramp up". (Thanks Virus for being the sacrifial lamb...you did a great service here.)

If the STi had the V1's arrows and audio ramp up and the 9500i's GPS functionability, it would be the perfect RD IMO.