radar detector wired to speakers
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radar detector wired to speakers
has anyone wired there cobra radar detector to there speakers so if your listening to music it the radar warning plays though the speakers?
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I thought about that, a while back, back when I was a Young'in and I figured if I'm driving so fast that I need to turn the radio up that much, that a radar detector is
1) Not Going to save me
2) I should be paying attention to the road not listening to tunes.
But for your info, most radar detectors use a small little speaker, just crack the cover, solder two wires on, and the use an Aux in... the trick would be mixing it with the signal for the radio so that it would overpower it, or turn down the radio when the signal goes off... either way your issue is not the detector it's how do I splice into the radio / cd signal so that I intercept it before it goes to the amplifier !?
1) Not Going to save me
2) I should be paying attention to the road not listening to tunes.
But for your info, most radar detectors use a small little speaker, just crack the cover, solder two wires on, and the use an Aux in... the trick would be mixing it with the signal for the radio so that it would overpower it, or turn down the radio when the signal goes off... either way your issue is not the detector it's how do I splice into the radio / cd signal so that I intercept it before it goes to the amplifier !?
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My deck has a input for muting the sound when there is a cell phone call - perhaps that wire can be used to lower the volume of the music while the radar chirps.. just an idea.
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Yeah, I did that. I used a pioneer deck which had the NAV/Phone trigger. Spliced the internal speaker into an RCA plug and Y-ed it through my equalizer.
The tough part was finding a relay with a small turn-on value, and high cut-out voltage. I took one of the speaker wires, ran it through the relay, to ground. And on the other side (the relayed connection), from a +12 to the NAV/Phone wire. Worked alright, but if the music was up really loud, the radar was unGODly loud. I ended up scrapping the project because i didn't find it very useful and it was very annoying if you're driving by a grocery store or you're parked and don't care about the radar, but it was a fun experiment.
The tough part was finding a relay with a small turn-on value, and high cut-out voltage. I took one of the speaker wires, ran it through the relay, to ground. And on the other side (the relayed connection), from a +12 to the NAV/Phone wire. Worked alright, but if the music was up really loud, the radar was unGODly loud. I ended up scrapping the project because i didn't find it very useful and it was very annoying if you're driving by a grocery store or you're parked and don't care about the radar, but it was a fun experiment.
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Originally posted by IaMtHeRuThLeSs1
or...you could just turn off the music when your speeding :-D...thats what i do...
or...you could just turn off the music when your speeding :-D...thats what i do...
(yes, even tercels and such are going this fast)
heck, even at 80 I see the CHP pass people up.
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Why not just use the telephone mute function to do exactly that - JUST mute, let it do the beeping itself
Not sure what your model does when it detects radar, but some have an LED that only comes on when they detect one - use this as the input to the mute function
Nice an simple! (just like me)
Not sure what your model does when it detects radar, but some have an LED that only comes on when they detect one - use this as the input to the mute function
Nice an simple! (just like me)
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