Poor mans radar screamer

[redneckj]

$20 amplified speaker from Radio Shack. The speaker charges from a USB cable included. Playes music for 8 hours so it will go beep beep beep for a really long time. Just velcroed it to the top of my radar detector. It is VERY loud but not very water proof. For 20 bucks it will work.

 

[dcarver]

..and you can tell folks it's your DISH TV satellite receiver..

 

[SeattleTy]

Great idea, thank you redneckj, going to give a try

 

[Top_Speed1]

Love seeing these homemade conversions (AKA: Afro-engine-EARed FJR inventions).

BTW- I would refine what dcarver suggested you tell peeps..

"It's my Mini Gyro-Tracking 12.2ghz Satellite Dish with uplink transmission capabilities".

This should shutup your bust-on-me peeps

 

[Bounce]

Do people still use those types of "charged" phrases in the 21st century to reference DIY projects?

 

[mferriter]

Have you seen these?

https://www.marcparnes.com/Visual_Alert.htm

I've got one with a single row of LEDs. Really bright - impossible to miss when your detector goes off. Not sure I'd want a loud audible alarm, since I ride with earplugs or earbuds in. I asusme it's loud enough to warn all the traffic around you as well. I prefer the more discrete visual warning.

Someone here on the forum also posted up about building one for about $10.

https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php/topic/128970-in-dash-radar-detector-visual-alert-for-under-10/

 

[Justin]

I've got one with a single row of LEDs. Really bright - impossible to miss when your detector goes off. Not sure I'd want a loud audible alarm, since I ride with earplugs or earbuds in. I asusme it's loud enough to warn all the traffic around you as well. I prefer the more discrete visual warning.

I use a piezo electric speaker mounted in my helmet and hooked up to the detector's headphone jack. I prefer the audio alert, as the sound tells you a lot more than a flash. With the audio alerts I instantly know which band it is and the signal strength. I don't have to look down at the GPS after I see a flash to determine that information. I ride with other guys that use the LED and they brake every time their detector goes off - for what are usually false alarms that I simply ignore.

 

[someguy]

Awesome post. Thanks

 

[majicmaker]

Have you seen these?https://www.marcparnes.com/Visual_Alert.htm

I recently went nuts and sprung for an Escort Redline and I got one of those Visual Alerts from marcparnes. That thing is Amazing!

 

[Eric L]

Helmet has speakers in it and I ride with earplugs - switched out the earplugs for ones with teeny earphones, plugs into V1. You do get a lot more data from the sound than from the flashing light and it's an instant warning.