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Radar
Detector Reviews UK
Laser
Jammers / Diffusers - Reviews UK.
I'd recommend the LT450 - Updated 10 July 20006.
Listed below
are the best Laser Diffusers available in the UK today.
NB: These are illegal in the UK although the garage door opener feature of the
NEW LT 400 Lasertrack | Snooper SLD 920X | Snooper SLD 950X | Target
LE 850 | Target LE 850
Review / Test | Target
LRC 100 | NEW FSLD100 | Snooper
SLD 920 Test |
FAST
Car & the SLD920 Laser Diffuser The following contains extracts from the original
copy supplied to Fast car magazine November 2000 issue, on electronic counter
- measures by Adam Rayner, Fast car magazine's ICE editor. Only the rude words
have been altered...
In my youth, I
had real problems. I would hurry everywhere, convinced I would miss something
if I didn't just get there quicker than that. However fast 'that' was, it wasn't
quick enough. I became expert at getting stopped for speeding and indeed was banned
three times in total, only ever for speeding totting-ups. I acquired a real interest
in the radar detector, having been 'blunderbussed' by radar guns more times than
I'd like to even admit. When laser came along, we spent huge money at one magazine,
rented some laser guns and borrowed a slew of detectors. Only two detectors could
see the laser gun. At the time I said something along the lines of the laser gun
being more deadly than an Armalite, without windage or elevation worries when
aiming. Two years on, and I learned of this electronic counter measure, a device
that could give you a second chance to pay attention and slow down if caught going
too quickly at a laser speed trap zone, and immediately we were to borrow both
Kustom Signals and Riegl (USA/Austria) police laser weapons. Well, technology
has come on apace. Not only did all the radar and laser detectors show evidence
that they can all save your bacon in a speed trap situation, but the SLD920 Astounded
me. A simple-looking device, the box it comes in contains two small items, about
the size of half a cigarette packet and some wiring. There's a tiny micro-switch
big enough to use but small enough to conceal and a tiny beeper unit. The red-lensed
sensor-diffuser array units go behind the car's grille, looking up the road, preferably
unobstructed by bars directly in front of them.
I drove the SLD920-equipped
BMW 318iS used for the test at any speed I chose, to where either laser gun was
shooting me from. I could detect the laser guns from well beyond visible range
of the speed trap and I decided what speed the guns would get me at by switching
off the device! it was amazing. It works. The only proviso I would add in my maturity
(!) is that this isn't about a licence to speed. Do be careful: Detect, slow down,
switch off. Like mirror, signal, manoeuvre. I Know I want one so bad I can taste
it..........
Here's how the
copy was sent to the magazine, less the rude expletives we tend to use... 'In
the midst of these Radar and Laser detectors is a p***- smelling black ram amongst
the ewes. Called a 'laser diffuser' it is apparently able to cloak you in a shield
of laser-proof invisibility. The laser gun shoots you, the result is simply not
recorded by the gun. Want to Know more? we fappin' did too...." Snooper SLD920
(laser diffuser) £294.95 Put simply, I'm under oath to my sources not to
reveal exactly what or how this does what it does. So, does the diffuser stop
laser guns from seeing you?
Is it stealth
bomber command time? yes, it turns the laser guns to s***. I love it to death
and I want one. RATINGS SENSITIVITY - RADAR n/a This isn't a detector, it's a
klingon cloaking device. SENSITIVITY - LASER 5 This deserves a six, or a ten.
It beat the lot on laser detection. FALSE SIGNAL CONTROL 5 It only sees lasers
and it sees them all. GATSO DETECTION n/a Nil, you will need to have a radar detector
on board as well. LOOKS 5 Meant to be hidden under your grille, the bits' lenses
look evil. OVERALL PERFECT SCORE A fappin' wonder-product! And from the conclusion...
"The Snooper SLD920 diffuser is a new product. It works. Buy one. They normally
only shoot you in the face with laser. So a rear pointing diffuser array is less
than vital, although we have heard of a punter who has fitted two sets."
It's quite simple, really.........
Adam Rayner, ICE Ed.Fast Car. (Also: Incars, T3 and many others.)
LE
850 Field Test with South Yorkshire Police, Manchester Police and Motorcycle news:
(Courtesy of UKSpeedtraps.co.uk)
We tested it with
a ProLaser II and a LTI 20-20 with Video camera mounted on it, testing was done
on a Kawasaki Ninja and a Mitsubishi Shogun. The ProLaser was used on the bike
by Sheffield Police and Manchester Police tested the car.
Both forces were
sceptical and said it would not work, however they were wrong. They could not
get a reading from the Kawasaki Ninja and neither could they get a reading from
the Mitsubishi Shogun before the drivers had slowed down. One police officer was
so impressed, he said would get one for his bike....!
We did several
runs and they tried very hard but to no avail.
On the bike it
was linked into the Bel 966R and gave a clear warning. In the car the control
box went mad with a whopping 87 dB audible warning. 7 seconds may not sound much,
but believe me you have plenty of time to slow, and once its shuts down automatically
the officer starts to get readings again of your vehicle at the correct speed,
this helped to remove some suspicion as you approach.
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