TPX radar detector v2.0. Initial impressions

[pritch]

There are cheaper options. I've been using something like this for five years now.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Motorcycle-T...c4c421&vxp=mtr


Of course you have to decide that you do not want to use a tank bag.

[sinned]

There are cheaper options. I've been using something like this for five years now.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Motorcycle-T...c4c421&vxp=mtr
Of course you have to decide that you do not want to use a tank bag.

My option is to have the radar detector inside the tank bag - keep use of a tank bag and the detector is out of sight.

[pritch]

My option is to have the radar detector inside the tank bag - keep use of a tank bag and the detector is out of sight.

I planned on doing that if the then Minister of Transport had persisted with his half-arsed idea to make detectors illegal.

When he decided that he wouldn't ban cellphone use by drivers, but he would ban radar detectors I thought he was in the wrong job. Similar thoughts must have occurred to other people too 'cause next election he was gone.

[slofox]

As an example of the TPX v2's range, I picked up a signal today on Hakarimata Rd (between Ngaruawahia and Huntly). This road runs beside the Waikato River. It winds about a bit just where I was and has a rock face up on the west side and the river on the east side.

I picked up the signal at the quarry along there. The copper was just north of Porrit Ave, close to Tainui brisge. That's 2.2km on the road.

Pretty good I thought. (Waits to hear of 7km + claims...)

[roogazza]

As an example of the TPX v2's range, I picked up a signal today on Hakarimata Rd (between Ngaruawahia and Huntly). This road runs beside the Waikato River. It winds about a bit just where I was and has a rock face up on the west side and the river on the east side.

I picked up the signal at the quarry along there. The copper was just north of Porrit Ave, close to Tainui brisge. That's 2.2km on the road.

Pretty good I thought. (Waits to hear of 7km + claims...)

They're a fantastic road safety device slofox.
Imagine if you had drifted over the 104, you could have been maimed.

The V1 often gets readings from up to 1km , sometimes more.

[caspernz]

As an example of the TPX v2's range, I picked up a signal today on Hakarimata Rd (between Ngaruawahia and Huntly). This road runs beside the Waikato River. It winds about a bit just where I was and has a rock face up on the west side and the river on the east side.

I picked up the signal at the quarry along there. The copper was just north of Porrit Ave, close to Tainui brisge. That's 2.2km on the road.

Pretty good I thought. (Waits to hear of 7km + claims...)

Using my V2 in the truck (for trial purposes of course) it's not uncommon to get the first warning several kilometres out, but really only when the topography is in my favour. On the Desert Rd for example, anything between 3 and 5 km for the first chirp is quite common.

This month especially it seems the 'instant on' method of the HP has been discarded, now 'always on' seems common place.

And consider the fact the detector is about 2.5 metres above road surface is a help as well...

[sinned]

The trusty Beltronics STI has been stolen and instead of spending $999 for a new one I am considering the TPX. Price is more acceptable and will use it on bike and in car. What I can't find out is, does the TPX have a speaker or chirper so the alert can be heard in a car and is it loud enough? I was also thinking of the Bean mount - has anyone got one tried one. All from Radar Direct: $638 Det package, $59 car kit, $69 Bean mount. I have a few mounts so something should fit the bike and I can always put the detector in the tank bag.

[cs363]

The trusty Beltronics STI has been stolen and instead of spending $999 for a new one I am considering the TPX. Price is more acceptable and will use it on bike and in car. What I can't find out is, does the TPX have a speaker or chirper so the alert can be heard in a car and is it loud enough? I was also thinking of the Bean mount - has anyone got one tried one. All from Radar Direct: $638 Det package, $59 car kit, $69 Bean mount. I have a few mounts so something should fit the bike and I can always put the detector in the tank bag.

It does have a speaker, volume should be fine for inside the car unless you have the stereo or similar wound up. Only possible drawback is that the speaker is on the bottom of the unit, so may not work so well with a bean mount as I'd imagine that may muffle the sound.
Can't really help with real world use in the car as I use a V1 for that and the TPX for the bike.

[DMNTD:Me]

The trusty Beltronics STI has been stolen and instead of spending $999 for a new one I am considering the TPX. Price is more acceptable and will use it on bike and in car. What I can't find out is, does the TPX have a speaker or chirper so the alert can be heard in a car and is it loud enough? I was also thinking of the Bean mount - has anyone got one tried one. All from Radar Direct: $638 Det package, $59 car kit, $69 Bean mount. I have a few mounts so something should fit the bike and I can always put the detector in the tank bag.

Yerp, nil worries

[slofox]

The trusty Beltronics STI has been stolen and instead of spending $999 for a new one I am considering the TPX. Price is more acceptable and will use it on bike and in car. What I can't find out is, does the TPX have a speaker or chirper so the alert can be heard in a car and is it loud enough? I was also thinking of the Bean mount - has anyone got one tried one. All from Radar Direct: $638 Det package, $59 car kit, $69 Bean mount. I have a few mounts so something should fit the bike and I can always put the detector in the tank bag.

I regularly use mine in the car. Works just fine.

You can get a car kit to mount it but I use an old Viper holder (coupla suction cups stick to windscreen) with some twin lock to stick the TPX to it with. No probs.

Volume? I always have to turn it way down in the car else it's too loud.

[Pussy]

Volume? I always have to turn it way down in the car else it's too loud.

Agree with that! Would deafen you if you didn't turn it down in the car!

[caspernz]

Yep the TPX 2.0 works fine in the car. The main comment might be the display angle being more suited for looking down to, as in from above the bars of a bike, rather than looking from behind as in when mounted in car. But yeah, set before moving off and all sweet.

[skippa1]

Just brought the TPX 2.0 with mount and HARD led for the helmet. Got to say, real easy to fit, easy to use.......not sure what the detection range is like but I guess I will find out soon enough.

[slofox]

Just brought the TPX 2.0 with mount and HARD led for the helmet. Got to say, real easy to fit, easy to use.......not sure what the detection range is like but I guess I will find out soon enough.

I had a weird positive signal this morning. Heard the Ka go off, couldn't see a HP anywhere. Carried on several km and eventually found the sender. But in between where I heard him and where I found him are several hills and lots of twisty road.

Either the signal hadn't come from the guy I saw (likely I reckon), or else it was getting bounced around all over the place for me to hear it where I did. Unusual for the TPX.

Overall, the range is pretty good in my experience. Between The Tron and d'Auckland, we often get signals between two and three km from the source. Depends a little on terrain and traffic. It's rare not to get a warning from quite some distance away.

[pritch]

One of my helmets has the HARD system fitted, it gives nowhere near the warning I get from the same detector through a speaker. When that light flashes the brakes need to go on real quick.