Archive for the ‘Electronics’ Category

Apr
05

I’ve been employing radar detectors for 25+ years. First a cheap Cobra, then a nicer Whistler, another Whistler, and then finally I stepped up to the plate and bought a Beltronics Vector 980 which at the time (9 years ago) was one of the best on the market. During that 25 twelvemonth period, I receive only received ONE speeding ticket, and that was from a motorcycle cop hiding in the driveway of a private residence behind the homeowner’s motortruck reach about the canopy with his radar gun and doing the “instant on” thing (I conjecture they were getting desperate for some revenue……lol). Under those circumstances NO radar detector would have kept me equally I was the exclusively machine on the road……Still, my driving record is whole clean (driver diversion course for that one ticket…), and, while I’ve dropped mayhap $700 on radar detectors over the Beltronics V995 Vector past 25 years, I’ve saved Grands of dollars in tickets/fines/court costs and increased motorcar insurance premiums. So, if you’re wondering if a radar detector is worth the money, YES, they are!!!

Anyway, later 9 years of faithful service, my 980 is finally starting to die: lot’s of false alarms, self-cal and low voltage warnings, etc. After speaking with Beltronics Tech Brook (who are situated in the U.S. and very helpful!) it went passably obvious that it was time for a young detector as my 980 is acting alike it’s on the mode out.

Mar
30

THIS is my minute BOOMBOX, from the foremost time I saw them in the 90s I just love them so, the masquline, massive cylindrical mold realy became my consummate attention!!. Then the round, dynamic intelligent quality with a cryptic mellow bass got me spellbinded!! I love the heaveiness of them as well!!. MY beloved momma was most frightened when she first regarded it, she exclaimed, “this is a MONSTER of a radio..wow!!!” the excitement and satisfaction proceeded for years untill I struck and left my favourite GADGET behind, I hunting high and low and only could’nt notice one!! entirely to discover that they were perish the market!!.Imagine my disapointment!!.
I waited, and to my suprise they’re back!!. I purchased mine at BRANDSMART USA, it is basically not equally weighty, aloud and thick as the earlier ones but it’s selfsame identical closing in overall appeal and levelheaded quality. I prefer the earlier ones, but this will do nicely. I don’t similar the carrier belt, the claws are fragile, I removed mine.
They are applying less and cheaper materials to make them in CHINA. MALAYSIA & INDONESIA did awesome jobs with the first ones.
Built for Ipod and USB, I know that they will do selfsame well on the market.
Overall JVC Kaboom System for Ipod these POWERED WOOFER CD SYSTEMS by JVC emit a wondrous sound with a heavy bass that I’m fully satisfied with. Equally a individual unit…they are realy great, far greater than any other radios i’ve always heard, peraphs the greatest radios in whole the world… It is so my preferred GADGET…Give one a endeavour and selfsame quickly… it will be your favored GADGET too.

Mar
29

The Cobra XRS 9970G got as I was directing away the door for a two hour trip. I opened the box removed the device from its packaging got in the vehicle and powered it up. I did not attach the windshield climb which actually appears to exist a coated metal with a match of caoutchouc stops that I conceive are to keep the unit from “tapping” the windshield, it seems well designed and fits snuggly in the unit. I ordered a bean bag holder and it was being shipped seperate, if that does not suffice I experience the windshield mount may shape although as0 others experience mentioned the power cord will exist maxed.

Three miles down the route in highway way I inserted my own small dwelling town and was alerted with a “speed trap” warning! I felt it was easy in this warning for I was already upon the spot the local policeman sits in waiting. I was withal gravelled that this emplacement was eve in the data base! Perhaps on metropolis way it would have been ample time but I don’t intend to be toggling back and away equally I drive. My lonesome intention for the buy was to remind me of this type of location, and altogether the new fixed locations that seem to exist appearing as our cities and states attempt to detect extra sources of revenue.

Further into my journeying I did have a “POP” warning which was generated by Country Patrol and besides a traffic alert as whole oncoming traffic was being rerouted choke I-80. I am not an excessive speeder, merely Cobra XRS 9970G I don’t desire to exist caught napping.

Mar
28

I am the owner of A Logitech Squeezebox Boom and I simply love it, so when this product became available I grabbed it up. The Squeezebox Tuner is fairly smaller than the Squeezebox Boom, the principal difference in size being that this unit has one speaker area on the movement equally opposed to two on the larger Boom.

Like its big brother, the Radio is negro and sleek look and will form with simply about any décor. It is small decent to corresponded nicely on any counter, table, etc. Equally of the time of this review, the Tuner is besides available with a crimson body and same blackamoor face.

The only things the Wireless lacks that the Roar has are a two-speaker configuration and a remote control. Merely what the Radio has is a Logitech Squeezebox Radio Music Player nice little color display. A few weeks back, my Thunder got a firmware upgrade pushed to it, which loaded a Facebook option. I thought this odd, as I couldn’t see employing Facebook on the Boom, equally it is a one colour (blue) display and doesn’t onus photos, etc. It’s pretty useful because you can read posting, and you could evening scroll your Facebook wall, etc. across the display, eve when not listening to music. Well, afterward getting the Radio, I immediately understand why they added a facebook app! The Wireless displays your Facebook Wall, Photos, etc. The Squeezebox Radio rocks!!

Mar
27

I ordinarily do not write reviews. However, after I get been look for a “perfect camcorder” I conceive this one deserves a review. Note, this is not a perfect camcorder, just Sony got it conclusion decent to construct virtually consumers happy.
About a year ago, I determined to go “high definition” . I decided to cause a Canon which has thus many features, internal light, internal memory, many adjustments. I realized that entirely the specifications for about professional look movies did not make Canon’s pic any meliorate than this Sony one. Canon was bulky, heavier, and received less zoom.
Sony packed a selfsame simple camcorder. No option to plug a microphone, no office for accessories like light, not that many manual adjustments. Only a good picture and a very small body. If you want a good picture, portability and convenience, this is for you.
The features that this camera has are the ones that I am travelling to use: good Sony HDR-CX110 zoom, transfers videos to portable difficult drive and , YES, I can not alone employment the remembering sticks only likewise SD cards. Thanks Sony. People would avoid some Sony products because they do not want to buy another eccentric of memory.
My entirely complain about this camera is that it appears cheap! The plastic with Sony logo looks horrible! Otherwise, it is a good buy.

Mar
26

Production was Christmas gift for 17 yr old boy. He loves it. Sound is rich with Mega Bass engaged. Extra large book knob is smooth and responsive. Healthy is gain with very good stereo separation through away the book range, which could reach quite loud, nonetheless retains intelligent clarity.
In Radio mode, FM tuning includes the Evening Frequencies (unused in the U.S.) Tuning includes essay or sequential frequency. Unit supports independent station presets for both AM & FM. Reception is adequate equally we alive outside of the metro area. Merely AM is not nearly as selective as a high quality Sangean.
CD works well. Clear, rich levelheaded with very good stereo separation. The ahead & reverse buttons dish double duty providing either Skip if held or Traverse Change if pressed and released.
The unit is considerably constructed. The exclusively Con would exist that there is a “Power Brick” in-line to drib the job voltage to: 9V DC, withal having the Powerfulness Brick in-line is much amend than having it at the plug, only not equally good as having it internal to the unit. :-)
I’ve seen/heard this unit in operation by our building electricians inside noisy Sony ZS-H10CP computer rooms. The music may be learnt over the background fan noise for quite some distance from the unit.
The unit supports external audio input from IPOD or other such device through a standard 1/8″ plug. We’ve not tested that.
This is solely such unit that I experience discovered that is Endure Proof/Resistant with Caoutchouc Gaskets and Seals at every opening to the case.

Mar
24

This Sony CFD-S350 CD/Cassette Portable Boombox was purchased for my wife’s basement sewing room. It was purchased to exchange an old Panasonic radio/cassette player that finally died after 20 years of use! The CFD sounds remarkably good. It will produce high healthy levels with minimal distortion. The “Megabass’” posing makes a noticeable, but not excessive extension of the lower frequencies. It does not make any narrow resonance peaks (that some people prefer and expect) just does extend and flatten away the low closing of the spectrum.

The Sony’s FM sensitivity is good and the AM sensitivity is fair. The CD player works well equally does the cassette deck My wife has a sight of old favored cassettes that haven’t been dubbed to CDR’s nonetheless so the Sony CFD-S350 cassette deck was essential.

At this price point, the CFD-S350 is a bargain. My exclusively diminutive disappointment was that Sony didn’t include the two AAA batteries for the remote. We experience many Sony products, and I constantly conceived that it was classy of Sony to ever include the remote contain batteries. This is our very first Sony product that didn’t arrived with the remote batteries. On the other hand, many comparable “boomboxes” don’t arrived with a remote curb at all, thence I conjecture I get no right to complain.

Mar
24

The SONY HDR-CX150 with 16 GB internal memory and has a slot to expand the remembering an is a AMAZING camera. I have received it for two days shooting in bad rainy brave and indoors with low light during the daytime and indoors with existing light and at night with a match of table lights about the room plus a 42″ LCD. The HDR-CX150 did a amazing line during the daytime in the Machine Style merely involved some help in the evening with household lighting. Formerly I figured out the MENU and turned on the Exmor R CMOS Sensor the room lit up and could shoot anyplace in the room without having to add a optional add-on flood light. You can subject the MENU and exit to “SCENE SELECTION” and you cand choose different shooting selections away of the Automobile Mode: Sony HDR-CX150 “Sunrise & Sunset”, “Twilight”, “Fireworks”, “Landscape”, “Portrait”. Experience not assayed these nevertheless merely if they work equally good equally the Exmor R CMOS Sensor manner I will not exist dissapointed. There are manual-over ride for exposure. You can likewise jibe 3.1mp yet photo’s on the fly. If you gibe even on the best 3.1 you will cause some nice quaity picture. Of coure is you want to slam to build big still picture you should usage a bigger pixal digital camera only for 4×6’s and 5×7’s it would be fine, maybe evening a 8×10. And verbalise nigh SMALL. It is thus slow to take with you. Fits into the palm of my pass an into a pocket.
The solely CON is I get big hands and need to cause utilisation to the little size. With practice this should not be a problem. I really love this camcorder and would highly recommended it.

Mar
20

My wife and I live 100 miles perish from where we both shape and we commute everyday to and from. Prior to getting the Beltronics 955, I was a uneasy wreck driving a total of 3-4 hours a day. I get been driving the commute straightaway for substantially over a year and I had solely 1 ticket merely I had to be constantly hyper-vigilant. I did not purchase the device to swiftness at will, but to furnish peace of judgment on a long serious commute.
The device has performed quite well therefore far. During the foremost quarter of the drive there are fastness limit postings with embedded Ka set to give you a readout of your fastness versus the posted limit. Consistently, I option up the Ka signaling from the signal at 1.4 miles out—long before it may always option me up. By the time the sign picks up my fastness (something you could see on the readout for at least 1/4 of a mile) I have been aware of its presence for over a mile and received mickle of time to react. I have been made cognisant of 6 soul situations over the past hebdomad where I had considerable time to adjust my fastness ahead actually reckoning the cruiser. I might add the highway where I get received the almost positive IDs has identical few direct runs and many unsighted corners. I have had no Laser or POP situations to verify warning times. I dont belive Young Mexico Country Troopers employment Laser or POP twixt Santa Fe and Albuquerque or on the Santa Fe bypass road, merely I am sure I will find it if they do.
On city way within Albuquerque, I make selfsame few false alarms.
Overall, for the foremost week of Beltronics V955 operation I am extremely printed by the orbit and detection of the 955. I get7 received no technical problems with the device thus far.

Mar
18

Having logged over two million miles equally an over-the-road truck driver and a radio junky I love wholly kinds of radios… I went out of listening to scanners when they went to trunking calls… Listening to one side of a radio vociferation gets actual old literal fast.. The cost of radios that would track trunking radios was expensive and limited… While recovering from getting hitting by a truck traveling 70mph while making a left give bit on my Harley. I turned my love of raidos to continue entertained during the many hours of recovery… Little wave is great… My longing for a scanner that will cross trunking was Uniden Bearcat BCT8 a must… After reading many reviews and doing inquiry I knew that one scanner asked to cross totally bases was the Uniden BCT8 tallied what I wanted… I detect the Bear Tracking feature is corking I had know thought that it would work so great… It works much amend than radar dectors by the time they alert you it is too late… Where the Support Tracker works great… I conceive it will be on a circumstances of future scanners… I alone own one scanner with it’s Trunking Tracker III it is the alone one I need… I live right under the flying path of the flight for spirit helicopters I can scan for them as well equally Police and Flame calls… The Ambulance services check towers and much more… The teaching manual leaves a little to exist desired but if you get any have in radio’s it isn’t a problem… While it takes a short attempt to pattern out8 listening groups it is not rocket science… If you are like me and want alone one scanner this is it… I placed together a battery pack for it in cause of powerfulness outages it comes with everything you need for applying it in your car… I believe it is the almost bang for the buck in scanners… Purchase it… My son too thinks it is extra nerveless because it has a NASCAR logo on the front…