X-50 and Starcom help needed.

[TheAxeman]

I've been running my Passport X-50 detector through a Starcom Advance for the last 3 months or so and everything worked great. About a week after returning from EOM, there was no more beepage in the helmet when the detector would go off. I checked all the cables, rerouted a new cable to the Starcom and still nothing. When I plug a set of conventional headphones into the detector directly I can hear it beeping but only when I pull the plug partially out. I'm not really sure how to check the audio input on the Starcom. I don't want to plug the Sirius into that jack for fear of it frying something and I don't want to send the detector back to Escort unless I'm sure it has a problem. Anybody got any ideas??

 

[Ignacio]

I've been running my Passport X-50 detector through a Starcom Advance for the last 3 months or so and everything worked great. About a week after returning from EOM, there was no more beepage in the helmet when the detector would go off. I checked all the cables, rerouted a new cable to the Starcom and still nothing. When I plug a set of conventional headphones into the detector directly I can hear it beeping but only when I pull the plug partially out. I'm not really sure how to check the audio input on the Starcom. I don't want to plug the Sirius into that jack for fear of it frying something and I don't want to send the detector back to Escort unless I'm sure it has a problem. Anybody got any ideas??

I had something very similar to that with my V1 and it ended up being the audio part of the detector. Fortunately it was the remote optional unit and they replaced it free of charge.

I wouldn't worry about checking the Starcom port with an alternate input like your Sirius. If you've currently got it plugged into one of the other Starcom ports....I don't think they're device specific. It would be a good differential test to isolate if it's the detector.

 

[twowheelnut]

That's a mono plug coming outta the X50. You gotta mono plug plugged in there?

 

[TheAxeman]

That's a mono plug coming outta the X50. You gotta mono plug plugged in there?

Yeah, its a mono plug. When I first got the detector I had sent it back to Escort complaining that the audio output didn't work and they repaired it and sent it back, so the detector in my mind is suspect. The thing I don't get is that I can take a pair of headphones from an ordinary portable cd player and get it to function with the detector if the cord is pulled out part way (mono?) which leads me to believe the audio out on the detector is working....on the bike, however, it won't work at all no matter how much I mess with the cords. It basically went from working perfectly to not working at all.

 

[nesbocaj]

That's a mono plug coming outta the X50. You gotta mono plug plugged in there?

Yeah, its a mono plug. When I first got the detector I had sent it back to Escort complaining that the audio output didn't work and they repaired it and sent it back, so the detector in my mind is suspect. The thing I don't get is that I can take a pair of headphones from an ordinary portable cd player and get it to function with the detector if the cord is pulled out part way (mono?) which leads me to believe the audio out on the detector is working....on the bike, however, it won't work at all no matter how much I mess with the cords. It basically went from working perfectly to not working at all.

Has the same thing happen, worked for a while, then nada. Made an isolator cable, back in business.

 

[FJamR]

I had been on a 7 state ride a was caught in many t-storms. I had sent in the x50 for repair as it was only 3 months old. They covered the repairs under warranty even after I told them what happened because they didn't see water damage :dribble: ( :clapping: thanks Escort). The detector took about a month to get back. I had forgotten to tell them the tension didn't feel right in the audio jack.

Long story short--- My detector started the doing the very same thing you are describing(no audio when the jack was plugged all the way in, but audio when it was pulled out slightly). I didn't want to lose her again for a month, so I opened it and bent the prong in the audio jack with a small dental pick and WA-LA back in buisness.

I now keep an audio cable in it all the time to prevent it from happening again.