LED bulbs that are used in certain tail lights, and traffic lights can tend to emit a laser signal which can trick out some radar detectors. I always know when an Envoy or Trailblazer is hitting it's breaks in front of me cause my V1 flips out.

 

pcsgrp35se is exactly right. The LED "third" brake lights on certain cars will set off your laser detector. The ones on big SUV's are the main culprits since they sit higher up relative to your rear view mirror. I think the Escalade also does this to my Valentine One.

The other thing that I have found that sets off the laser detector on my older model V-1 (hasn't happened yet with my new model) is splashed up mist from a car in front of me when it is really sunny out. This doesn't happen very often. It has to have just rained a lot and then the sun comes out brightly. I think the mist acts as a kind of a prism to the sunlight and if the conditions and angle are just right, it sets off my laser.

 

mine always did it AFTER some small tall plaza in Florida. And only on one one side of it. When I was going other direction everything was fine.

And manual says that its expeted behaviour near tall plazas

 

tall plaza? Do you mean a toll plaza (booth)? If so, I wonder if it has to do with the fact that some of them use a laser scanner to scan the toll tickets? That would expain why it would only go off in one direction since in one direction you just get the ticket and in the other direction you pay for the toll.

 

Incidently, after getting shot by laser twice on the same stretch of road (And pulled over) I'm looking to put together a group buy on a laser diffuser. See my post in this forum for details.

 

Bad luck... So did you had radar detector with laser detection? Did it went off?

 

I hate English! Why two words that sounds exactly the same should have different spelling? That's so wrong...

 

Vlad: They really aren't pronounced the same. "tall" rhymes with small or ball. "toll" rhymes with roll or mole or soul.

Don't mean to make fun of you or anything. Just trying to help!

 

Yes my V1 went off. But with laser, the cop looks through the viewfinder, targets your car (nothing being emitted yet) and then pulls the trigger. The laser is a series of pulses that in a span of less than a second, calculates the distance and distance closure to summize your speed. That's when you're detector has gone off, but at that point typically, he's already got you.

What the diffuser does is absorbs the laser and returns a signal with inconsistant values causing the laser gun to return an error report which will basically tell the cop, he was shaking the gun and couldn't get a reading. the diffuser does this for 5 seconds, allowing you time to SAFELY slow down, and then shuts off and allows the cop to clock you so as to not arouse suspicion of your jammer.

 

I didn't get it yet. I'm putting together a group buy so many people can get the unit at a discount, and it will be ordered directly from the company.