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Laser Blinder Speed Labs Certification
Blinder M25 Can be EASILY SELF TESTED with your TV Remote. Click on this image to expand it and read on.
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Laser Gun in action. Laser Jammers defeat a laser gun. Radar Jammers, which are no longer available, defeat radar guns, but not laser guns.
Targeting a vehicle with a laser gun is easy using any laser gun. Each laser gun has a targeting mechenism, which you can see the officer is using to target a vehicle coming towards his laser gun.
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Product Tests
2008-2009 Annual Radar Detector Test-New Technologies FIELD EVALUATION REPORT on laser jammer tests at SPEED MEASUREMENT LABORATORIES, INC Evaluated Product: Laser Blinder M25, M45 laser jammer and Passport Shifter ZR4 Evaluation Date: June 27-29, 2008. Evaluation Location: Stan Roberts Senior Road, El Paso, TX. Evaluation Company: Speed Measurement Labs, Carl Fors, President Laser guns present two problems to you and your driving record. Most radar detectors can’t notify you of a laser encounter. First, if you do get a warning, consider it as an invitation to appear in court on a speeding ticket. The reason for this is the laser beam is a pointing tool. When a policeman aims a laser gun at a vehicle, the license plate, headlight or grille can be targeted with ease. Even if your vehicle is among 5 other vehicles, it is easy to target your vehicle among other vehicles. If you get a laser alert, it is because the laser is pointing at your vehicle. Slowing down after you receive a laser detection alert does you no good, because the laser gun already has your speed. In most cases, you may have the best radar detector in the world, and it still would not detect the laser beam at 600 feet or less distance from the laser gun. Second, laser false alerts are increasing from cars now using collision avoidance laser products operating at 1,000 pps/1000Hz or laser products used to disengage the vehicle’s cruise control. You will also find laser false alerts at airports with range finders used by air traffic controllers. There are solutions. There are no federal laws prohibiting the jamming of police laser guns. Some states have banned the use of laser jammers in their state, so check with local or state ordinances. At the Annual Speed Measurement Labs test SML looked at the two leading laser counter measures to see how well they worked, Blinder M45 (4 laser modules), Blinder M25 (two laser modules) and Passport ZR4 (three laser modules). Both are often illegally copied by overseas companies trying to acquire a portion of the market. It’s a compliment to Blinder’s and Passport’s reputation and performance. Laser transponders need to be mounted in the vehicle grill, equidistant from the headlights to the license plate and concealed. Smaller passenger cars, small SUVs and mini pickup trucks need only 2 laser jammer modules in the front grille, while the larger passenger SUVs and pickup trucks with large grille area need 3 laser modules in the front grille. Vehicles such as Hummer, Ford F350, Chevy 3500HD, Dodge 3500HD are best protected with 4 laser modules in the grille. Some people simply want major protection in the front of the vehicle and will install all 4 laser modules in the front grille. A good laser jammer provides in-cabin warning alerts (audio and or LED) warning of your encounter with a police laser gun. Escort offers an integrated system with its ZR4 easily interfacing with Passport and Beltronics, dash mounted radar detectors, such as Passport 9500ix, Bel STi Driver, Bel RX65, Bel GX65 and Passport 8500 x50 radar detectors. The Passport ZR4 Laser Shifter is also integrated into the Passport 9500ci remote radar detector, as tested below. Blinder is a stand alone laser jammer for those who already have a radar detector and want laser protection. 1stRadarDetectors (formerly Tiger Lily Products) offers a series of combo radar/laser/photo systems with the best-in-test performance, as verified at Speed Measurement Labs. To test the jamming efficiency of both the ZR4 and Blinder SML used two transmission points of 1,000 and 500 feet. As the test vehicle approached the cone at each distance, they would count down “three, two, one”. At the count of “one”, the officer would trigger the laser gun. SML used a Blinder M25 attached to a motorcycle and a Blinder M45 installed into the grille of 1stRadarDetectors, Chevy 2500HD truck, a large, dual cab pickup truck. SML also tested the ZR4 alone and as part of Passport’s 9500ci remote package, both which were installed into the 1stRadarDetectors, Chevy 2500HD truck. Each laser jammer was given three laser passes at the 500 foot distance and three laser passes at 1000 foot distance. El Paso Police Officers were directed to aim the laser at the front license plate of the truck or at the front headlight of the motorcycle. SML used the Kustom Pro Laser III and the LTI Ultralyte LR laser guns, both common laser guns used around the USA. These two laser guns combined account for 75% of all laser guns sold. The term “j below in the test results means JTG (jam to gun) below means the Blinder M25, Blinder M45 or the ZR4/9500ci jammed the laser gun. Escort uses the phrase “laser shifting” for jamming a laser gun. N means the laser did not jam the gun and the distance was noted in feet. Both laser guns were in the speed/distance modes. MC below means motorcycle. Chevy below means Chevy 2500HD pickup. The laser receiver’s location is critical. Blinder’s laser receiver is located where the laser is aimed, on the headlights, bumper or license plate. It does not matter whether the bumper area is a painted surface or chrome surface. If laser strikes the smooth surface in the grille, it will reflect a good signal back to the laser gun. When laser was aimed at the windshield at 500 feet distance, it did not alert. Police rarely aim up in the windshield as the laser signal would go thru the front windshield and out the back windshield. No signal!!! The laser receiver of a laser jammer is installed down where police aim the laser gun…down in the grille area! Conversely, when laser was pointed at the radar detectors mounted up in the windshield, the radar detectors of course alerted to laser. But as discussed above, detecting laser in the windshield does not provide any value to the driver. Laser detection is too late. Product Kustom Pro Laser III Laser Distance 1000 500 Blinder M25, MC j, j, j j, j, j Blinder M45, Chevy 2500HD j, j, j j, j, j Escort 9500ci, Chevy 2500HD j, j, j j, j, j Passport ZR4, Chevy 2500HD j, j, j j, j, j LTI Ultralyte LR Laser Distance 1000 500 Blinder M25, MC j, j, j j, j, j Blinder M45, Chevy 2500HD j, j, j j, j, j Escort 9500ci, Chevy 2500HD j, j, j j, j, j Passport ZR4, Chevy 2500HD j, j, j j, j, n/436 In most cases, when laser was aimed at the bumper, especially at 500 feet during this test, the windshield mounted detectors did not alert to laser. The laser beam width at 1,000 feet distance from the laser gun the laser beam is 30-36 inches (≈ 1 meter) wide depending on the laser gun used. Radar detectors can detect laser at 1000 feet distance with beam width of 36 inches; but again, detecting laser serves no value to the driver. At 500 feet distance from the laser gun, the laser beam is only 16-18 inches wide, meaning many detectors did not report the laser beam, as the radar detector could not see the narrow laser beam. The exception here wasAdaptiv Technologies’ TPX radar detector, specifically designed for quick connect/dis-connect on nearly any motorcycle. The TPX is mounted on the motorcycle handlebars. A motorcycle is much smaller than a passenger car or truck. As a reminder, detecting laser, even on a motorcycle, is not sufficient to protect you from a laser speeding ticket. SML tested Whistler’s Laser Signature ID. SML found it to be accurate when exposed to many laser guns. It correctly reported the following pulse rates: LTI 20/20-125, LTI Ultralyte LR-120, LTI TruSpeed-120, Kustom Pro II-238, Kustom Pro III-200, Kustom ProLite-200, Stalker LZ-1-130, Laser Atlanta Speedlaser-238, Laser Atlanta Stealth-70, and a hand held laser tester-360. The LSID feature eliminates laser false alerts. Only the dash mount Valentine One and Passport 9500i saw laser each time. Although not a laser counter measure, Whistler has introduced a new technology designed to eliminate laser false alerts called Laser Signature ID (trademark) on its XTR 695. It measures and shows the driver of the pulses per second of encountered laser sources. It allows the driver to lock out or eliminate laser sources terminating laser false alerts. This is especially helpful when encountering cars now equipped with laser systems as pictured below left. The detector knows the pulse rates of real laser guns and allows the driver to eliminate false sources.
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