Wondering if my unit is defective or if it's common for Uniden R7 to not work at all (turn on) if there's hot weather?
I moved from a cold climate state to Florida a couple of months ago and have had this R7 for about 6 months. It is hard wired to my car and in California never had an issue leaving my R7 on the windshield and would turn on without any issues as soon as I needed to drive the car.
Since moving to Florida though this R7 is a different story, I do take the radar detector away from the windshield and into the backseat floor when not in use, so there's no direct sunlight but the cabin does get hot as Florida weather gets - 90 degrees even while car is on a carport. If the car is on the direct sunlight the cabin may reach 110 degrees. I would expect my radar detector to work just fine within these temperatures but that is not my experience.
When the R7 won't turn on, I place the unit in front of the AC vents with a 68 degree AC on full blast for about 10 minutes or so. Sometimes this trick works and the unit will immediately turn on after "cool off" period but it doesn't feel normal and it doesn't work every time so it feels like a defective unit? AFAIK these temperatures are not crazy 140-160 degrees to "overheat"and some searching here doesn't indicate this is common?
Any thoughts or suggestions? I may request a repair for this since two different firmware versions haven't made a difference and its happened 4-5 times now. I got a ticket today because i didn't bother with the detector
I moved from a cold climate state to Florida a couple of months ago and have had this R7 for about 6 months. It is hard wired to my car and in California never had an issue leaving my R7 on the windshield and would turn on without any issues as soon as I needed to drive the car.
Since moving to Florida though this R7 is a different story, I do take the radar detector away from the windshield and into the backseat floor when not in use, so there's no direct sunlight but the cabin does get hot as Florida weather gets - 90 degrees even while car is on a carport. If the car is on the direct sunlight the cabin may reach 110 degrees. I would expect my radar detector to work just fine within these temperatures but that is not my experience.
When the R7 won't turn on, I place the unit in front of the AC vents with a 68 degree AC on full blast for about 10 minutes or so. Sometimes this trick works and the unit will immediately turn on after "cool off" period but it doesn't feel normal and it doesn't work every time so it feels like a defective unit? AFAIK these temperatures are not crazy 140-160 degrees to "overheat"and some searching here doesn't indicate this is common?
Any thoughts or suggestions? I may request a repair for this since two different firmware versions haven't made a difference and its happened 4-5 times now. I got a ticket today because i didn't bother with the detector