hey wats goin on, umm, im just wondering if anyone knows about a kind of radar detector that when it senses a cop nearby it cuts off a certain power source until the cop is gone..
what i wanna do is install a neon underbody kit that would automatically shut off whenever the detector sensed a cop within like a quarter mile.
like i said i dont even know if such a thing exists but hey its worth askin.. Thanks!!
Dude come on! Why would you want neon lights under your car? Don't do it! Mods should make the car look better, not worse.
Dude come on! Why would you want neon lights under your car? Don't do it! Mods should make the car look better, not worse.
...yeh....yeh ur right....what was i thinking....but that didnt answer the question 
Dude come on! Why would you want neon lights under your car? Don't do it! Mods should make the car look better, not worse.
...yeh....yeh ur right....what was i thinking....but that didnt answer the question
well im not a fan of neon either but you didn't ask for opinions on neon. The only thing i can think of is to hook up a relay to the detector and power of the neon. Depending on which detector there may be multiple ways. I know with a valentine one there are outputs that may be able to be used. Some units has a headphone output port which may be able to be used as well. Give me an exact model number and i may be able to be more help. Another thing to consider is that detectors are prone to lots of interference from auto door sensors and such so if you cruising through a populated area your neons may just be flashing on and off.
I am kinda in the same boat as you. I have a valentine one and i am considering a way to hook up the detector to mute (attenuate) my soon to be f90bt. Every time the detector goes off the radio would mute until the threat was gone or i acknowledge it some way.
Dude come on! Why would you want neon lights under your car? Don't do it! Mods should make the car look better, not worse.
...yeh....yeh ur right....what was i thinking....but that didnt answer the question
well im not a fan of neon either but you didn't ask for opinions on neon. The only thing i can think of is to hook up a relay to the detector and power of the neon. Depending on which detector there may be multiple ways. I know with a valentine one there are outputs that may be able to be used. Some units has a headphone output port which may be able to be used as well. Give me an exact model number and i may be able to be more help. Another thing to consider is that detectors are prone to lots of interference from auto door sensors and such so if you cruising through a populated area your neons may just be flashing on and off.
I am kinda in the same boat as you. I have a valentine one and i am considering a way to hook up the detector to mute (attenuate) my soon to be f90bt. Every time the detector goes off the radio would mute until the threat was gone or i acknowledge it some way.
thanks for the response! i dont know what model number to offer, nor do i even kno of any radar detectors...i was in target the other day and saw a radar detector for like $80 which is where i got the idea. idk if that wat im lookin for, since im sure the detector im lookin for is 50 state illegal, but ill post any info i can find.
Dude come on! Why would you want neon lights under your car? Don't do it! Mods should make the car look better, not worse.
...yeh....yeh ur right....what was i thinking....but that didnt answer the question
well im not a fan of neon either but you didn't ask for opinions on neon. The only thing i can think of is to hook up a relay to the detector and power of the neon. Depending on which detector there may be multiple ways. I know with a valentine one there are outputs that may be able to be used. Some units has a headphone output port which may be able to be used as well. Give me an exact model number and i may be able to be more help. Another thing to consider is that detectors are prone to lots of interference from auto door sensors and such so if you cruising through a populated area your neons may just be flashing on and off.
I am kinda in the same boat as you. I have a valentine one and i am considering a way to hook up the detector to mute (attenuate) my soon to be f90bt. Every time the detector goes off the radio would mute until the threat was gone or i acknowledge it some way.
thanks for the response! i dont know what model number to offer, nor do i even kno of any radar detectors...i was in target the other day and saw a radar detector for like $80 which is where i got the idea. idk if that wat im lookin for, since im sure the detector im lookin for is 50 state illegal, but ill post any info i can find.
Well $80 wont get you much. No matter what kind you get it is possible to hookup a relay it will just depend on finding the proper connect and probably will require soldering or something. You may also solder that police do not have there radar on as often as many think. There may be 10 police within 10 feet from you and your neon wont turn off and you may get busted the concept you have is good but may not be plausible with all things considered.
...damn cops. takin the fun out of everything since....forever 
...damn cops. takin the fun out of everything since....forever
precisely.
...damn cops. takin the fun out of everything since....forever
precisely.
arite man thanks alot for the info, i didnt know that about auto door sensors. guess i wont even bother doing it if it wont work as intended and theres a chance of getting busted.
Are you saying its against the law to have neons under your car where you live?
Are you saying its against the law to have neons under your car where you live?
to drive around yes. to have them in a parking lot or in a driveway no. 'its a distraction to the other drivers'. good ol' NYPD right? but thats y it defeats the purpose of even having em cuz where u gonna show em off besides ur house and local parking lots? hence the whole radar idea? y where u live julius, that its legal?
actually, i jus reread ur post, its illegal to have ANY neons, even inside...god forbid another driver cant keep his eyes on the road to look inside ur car, itd by my fault. you also cant have colored turn signals....i got ticketed for having blue signals on my lancer. now i have all white on the rx8 and i havent been bagged yet ::knock on wood::
The problem with that plan though is that police don't usually drive around with their radar turned on, they only use it when specifically trying to get a reading on speeding cars. So the detector won't get set off by the millions of cops that aren't using their radar and you will popped for a neon ticket
I didn't know it was illegal.I see a few people here in St. Louis with them but I've never heard of nor seen anyone get pulled over for having them on.
I didn't know it was illegal.I see a few people here in St. Louis with them but I've never heard of nor seen anyone get pulled over for having them on.
yeh i heard in FL theyre legal too and when i went down to new orleans (before katrina) i remember the first thing i saw at night was a white escalade ext with 24's and a blue underkit.
I don't think you'll be able to drive a relay from anything in a radar detector. Most relays need 12V and something like 80mA. The speaker only outputs very little current.
What you could do is drive a transistor from one of the radar detector's LEDs, and the transistor could drive a relay. Soldering and a little electronics knowledge is definitely required, but it's do-able and not really that difficult.
I don't think you'll be able to drive a relay from anything in a radar detector. Most relays need 12V and something like 80mA. The speaker only outputs very little current.
What you could do is drive a transistor from one of the radar detector's LEDs, and the transistor could drive a relay. Soldering and a little electronics knowledge is definitely required, but it's do-able and not really that difficult.
i deffinitly have the skills and knowledge but if what brdnboy and whtcrxghst said is true, which it probably is, then theres no point in carrying out with this cuz it wont work as intended. see, i thought the way radar detectors worked was they picked up the radio frequencies the cops use to talk to each other and beeped or blinked when it sensed a signal nearby.
Yeah, that's true.
I don't think a general "cop detector" exists, maybe something that detects their police radio signal would work, but I don't know if that exists either.
They do have that on all the time as far as I know.
What you need to do is develop a system that connects to a satellite that monitors all GPS transmitters. So something like a TomTom wont set it off and have that information processed and sent to your car via satellite or some form of data connection. Then the system would see your location and that of the other transmitters and turn off your lights when the signals are within a certain predetermined distance. I could get a preliminary shopping list for you.
1.) Apple MacBook Pro - Used for in car processing
2.) Home-built rocket ship* - to get home built satellite into orbit
3.) Home-built GPS satellite. I would recommend you get a couple up in orbit so that you can have full time coverage.
-- Side note. I hear you can buy Russian spy satellites that are already in orbit for pretty cheap.
4.) World class hacker and computer software engineer to build an implement software to achieve desired results.
5.) A few relays
6.) Various lengths of wire
7.) solder
8.) Shrink tubing
9.) A few cases of beer to get the job done.
*There is a company that rents out rockets for the private sector to do research...
The better thing would be to just leave the neons off or have them set up to the speed sense wire in your car with some circuitry that shuts the lights off at a certain MPH.
But seriously if some one could find a way to track emergency vehicles and have it display on my monitor and give me an audible warning that would be great and I would buy it
Too much work. I abandoned this idea like 3 months ago anyways. Thanks for the list though.