Just bought a used escort passport 8500 x50 and on the screen it says anywhere from 14.4v to 14.8v. I hear if it has that high of Volts that it's gone bad. Is that true? I just passed a cop and the most annoying sound came on with the K band symbol so it must work. ANY HELP???
I don't know anything about detectors, but if all it's doing is displaying the battery bus voltage then that sounds perfectly normal when the car is running.
Mines being a little weird lately too. But it still sniffs out cops. K band goes off all the time even when cops arent around but it does help. Stay clear when the Ka comes on haha. But mine goes off randomly under acceleration and sometimes for an abnormaly long time. I deal with it though.
I don't remember much when I read into the different bands the police use. I also haven't had a radar detector in a few years. I honestly don't need one. I don't speed much and pretty decent at picking them out. Especially here there's really no cover to hide
I believe the k band goes off for EVERYTHING. Car alarms, automatic door openers, grocery store.
The ka band was one to look out for but I've had a good number of false as well. And I think x band is a popular one the police have moved to depending on the area and obviously laser. Although by the time your detector picks up the laser you're already screwed
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