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... more information or to order any of our products, please visit our website: www.cobra.com English 15 Operating Instructions 15 BAND™ ULTRA PERFORMANCE DIGITAL RADAR/LASER DETECTOR WITH XTREME RANGE SUPERHETERODYNE® TECHNOLOGY XRS 979 Nothing Comes Close to a Cobra® Printed in China Part No. 480-512-P Version C English Introduction Important Information and...
... more information or to order any of our products, please visit our website: www.cobra.com English 15 Operating Instructions 15 BAND™ ULTRA PERFORMANCE DIGITAL RADAR/LASER DETECTOR WITH XTREME RANGE SUPERHETERODYNE® TECHNOLOGY XRS 979 Nothing Comes Close to a Cobra® Printed in China Part No. 480-512-P Version C English Introduction Important Information and...
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...of the sophisticated features and capabilities your moving vehicle WARNING Modifications or parts substitutions not approved by radar detector detectors (RDDs) when traveling at slower speeds Safety Alert signals, Strobe Alert signals, SmartPower VG-2 ...XRS™, UltraBright™, and Voice Alert™ are trademarks of Stealth Micro Systems Pty. Dim 3Button Adjusts the display brightness. Central Time, Monday through settings. In Menu mode, steps forward through Friday. Tomar® is a registered trademark of laser and strobe signals. Nothing Comes Close to a Cobra...
...of the sophisticated features and capabilities your moving vehicle WARNING Modifications or parts substitutions not approved by radar detector detectors (RDDs) when traveling at slower speeds Safety Alert signals, Strobe Alert signals, SmartPower VG-2 ...XRS™, UltraBright™, and Voice Alert™ are trademarks of Stealth Micro Systems Pty. Dim 3Button Adjusts the display brightness. Central Time, Monday through settings. In Menu mode, steps forward through Friday. Tomar® is a registered trademark of laser and strobe signals. Nothing Comes Close to a Cobra...
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... Important Information A1 Customer Assistance A1 Controls, Indicators, Connections and Display A2 Product Features A3 Overview 2 Your Detector Installation 3 Getting Started 6 Power On/Off and Audio Volume . 6 Standby Screen Icons 7 Display Brightness ... Audio Alerts 23 Visual Display 23 Instant-On Detection 27 Pop Detection 27 Responding to Alerts 27 Understanding Radar and Laser . . 28 Maintenance 30 Specifications 31 Optional Global Position System Locator Overview 32 Initial Satellite... Info 41 Trademark Acknowledgement . . . . 41 Nothing Comes Close to a Cobra® 1
... Important Information A1 Customer Assistance A1 Controls, Indicators, Connections and Display A2 Product Features A3 Overview 2 Your Detector Installation 3 Getting Started 6 Power On/Off and Audio Volume . 6 Standby Screen Icons 7 Display Brightness ... Audio Alerts 23 Visual Display 23 Instant-On Detection 27 Pop Detection 27 Responding to Alerts 27 Understanding Radar and Laser . . 28 Maintenance 30 Specifications 31 Optional Global Position System Locator Overview 32 Initial Satellite... Info 41 Trademark Acknowledgement . . . . 41 Nothing Comes Close to a Cobra® 1
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... your new detector. The detector will function and alerts will get optimum performance from your detector if you...Electriclear for mounting, setting up and using the detector with the factory settings and then make changes...• Once the detector is completely covered in Compass, IntelliMute and ... About Your Detector • Display This detector's innovative new display provides more familiar with your detector. Each topic... point approximately in the center of your detector by the nearly blank display you see ... Clear View Radar and laser signals pass through glass but not...
... your new detector. The detector will function and alerts will get optimum performance from your detector if you...Electriclear for mounting, setting up and using the detector with the factory settings and then make changes...• Once the detector is completely covered in Compass, IntelliMute and ... About Your Detector • Display This detector's innovative new display provides more familiar with your detector. Each topic... point approximately in the center of your detector by the nearly blank display you see ... Clear View Radar and laser signals pass through glass but not...
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...turned On. The City Mode Default can also be stored in Standby mode: 1. When RPMs are turned Off to prevent detection by radar detector detectors (RDDs) such as the default. Below Activation Point Above Activation Point IntelliMute Pro Mode IntelliMute Pro prevents detection by RDDs. Whenever ... Point will appear in the display when IntelliMute Pro is displayed to set . By sensing the RPMs of your detector sensing the vehicle's engine "revs" (RPMs) to a Cobra® 17 City X+K combines the City X mode with the "i" blinking. Press and hold the City4button for strobe...
...turned On. The City Mode Default can also be stored in Standby mode: 1. When RPMs are turned Off to prevent detection by radar detector detectors (RDDs) such as the default. Below Activation Point Above Activation Point IntelliMute Pro Mode IntelliMute Pro prevents detection by RDDs. Whenever ... Point will appear in the display when IntelliMute Pro is displayed to set . By sensing the RPMs of your detector sensing the vehicle's engine "revs" (RPMs) to a Cobra® 17 City X+K combines the City X mode with the "i" blinking. Press and hold the City4button for strobe...
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... and an alert will appear in use near your detector will continue to spot users of the signal detected. VG-2 Alert The detector is undetectable by VG-2 detection devices and can alert you when such a device is in use radar detector detectors (RDDs) to detect other signals. The factory setting... other signals. During the alert, the unit will continue to a Cobra® 23 During the alert, the unit will continue to Spectre I & IV+ Alerts Police use near your vehicle. 22 English Your Detector Detection Your detector can be spotted by Spectre IV+ RDDs, but is invisible to ...
... and an alert will appear in use near your detector will continue to spot users of the signal detected. VG-2 Alert The detector is undetectable by VG-2 detection devices and can alert you when such a device is in use radar detector detectors (RDDs) to detect other signals. The factory setting... other signals. During the alert, the unit will continue to a Cobra® 23 During the alert, the unit will continue to Spectre I & IV+ Alerts Police use near your vehicle. 22 English Your Detector Detection Your detector can be spotted by Spectre IV+ RDDs, but is invisible to ...
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Nothing Comes Close to a Cobra® 25 Other Laser Alert Laser Alert * Your detector provides 360˚ detection of Signal LTI 20-20* Visual Display Voice Laser Alert LTI Ultra-Lyte* Laser Alert Kustom ... 3 Signal Strength = 4 Signal Strength = 5 (Weakest Signal) (Strongest Signal) Radar Signals and Visual Displays Type of Signal X Band Radar Visual Display Voice X Alert K Band Radar K Alert Ka Band Radar Ka Alert Ku Band Radar Ku Alert Pop Radar Mode Pop Alert 24 English Your Detector Detection Laser Signals and Visual Displays Type of these signals. Speedlaser...
Nothing Comes Close to a Cobra® 25 Other Laser Alert Laser Alert * Your detector provides 360˚ detection of Signal LTI 20-20* Visual Display Voice Laser Alert LTI Ultra-Lyte* Laser Alert Kustom ... 3 Signal Strength = 4 Signal Strength = 5 (Weakest Signal) (Strongest Signal) Radar Signals and Visual Displays Type of Signal X Band Radar Visual Display Voice X Alert K Band Radar K Alert Ka Band Radar Ka Alert Ku Band Radar Ku Alert Pop Radar Mode Pop Alert 24 English Your Detector Detection Laser Signals and Visual Displays Type of these signals. Speedlaser...
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... repeats slowly at full strength. You should take appropriate action immediately whenever an instant-On alert is designed to a Cobra® 27 Exercise caution Tone instantly begins repeating rapidly. Probably police radar beyond the hill or bridge. Your Detector Detection Strobe Alert Signals and Visual Displays Type of Signal Visual Display Voice * Your...
... repeats slowly at full strength. You should take appropriate action immediately whenever an instant-On alert is designed to a Cobra® 27 Exercise caution Tone instantly begins repeating rapidly. Probably police radar beyond the hill or bridge. Your Detector Detection Strobe Alert Signals and Visual Displays Type of Signal Visual Display Voice * Your...
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... emergency vehicle and pull over to as widely. Because LIDAR operates by 3M and Tomar, are radar detector detectors (RDDs) that most conventional radar detectors will alert you receive such an alert, please watch for the technology that work by detecting low...Cobra's exclusive Strobe Alert detector will reduce the effective range of authorized emergency vehicles (fire trucks, police cars, ambulances) automatically change traffic signals as sign posts, utility poles, tree branches, etc., will become more than 1000 cities nationwide. LIDAR operates much like a radar...
... emergency vehicle and pull over to as widely. Because LIDAR operates by 3M and Tomar, are radar detector detectors (RDDs) that most conventional radar detectors will alert you receive such an alert, please watch for the technology that work by detecting low...Cobra's exclusive Strobe Alert detector will reduce the effective range of authorized emergency vehicles (fire trucks, police cars, ambulances) automatically change traffic signals as sign posts, utility poles, tree branches, etc., will become more than 1000 cities nationwide. LIDAR operates much like a radar...
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... in highway and rural situations. This is a feature of its extra sensitivity. Maintenance • Maintenance of Your Radar Detector Your detector is clean and free of the cigarette lighter adapter and examine the fuse. Although your vehicle's cigarette lighter is ...radar gun. Cobra Electronics has included a user selectable On or Off Pop Detect mode. I Check the power cord fuse. (Unscrew the ribbed end cap of corrosion. patents: 5,497,148; 5,594,432; 5,612,685; 6,078,279; 6,094,148; 6,621,447. If your cigarette lighter. I Make sure the socket of your detector...
... in highway and rural situations. This is a feature of its extra sensitivity. Maintenance • Maintenance of Your Radar Detector Your detector is clean and free of the cigarette lighter adapter and examine the fuse. Although your vehicle's cigarette lighter is ...radar gun. Cobra Electronics has included a user selectable On or Off Pop Detect mode. I Check the power cord fuse. (Unscrew the ribbed end cap of corrosion. patents: 5,497,148; 5,594,432; 5,612,685; 6,078,279; 6,094,148; 6,621,447. If your cigarette lighter. I Make sure the socket of your detector...
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...progressively larger as you approach the location. Whenever it is first used or after a prolonged period of radar detector. The vehicle can be blocked or weakened by the detector, the GPS Locator provides alerts based on earth. Photo Enforcement Alerts Whenever your vehicle approaches a caution ... 15 minutes to detect the Global Position System satellites. 1. See www.cobra.com/AURA for GM). Consult your dealer to the sky. 2. Keep the detector turned On for instructions on the detector. I Provides speed and direction of travel information using the GPS satellite system...
...progressively larger as you approach the location. Whenever it is first used or after a prolonged period of radar detector. The vehicle can be blocked or weakened by the detector, the GPS Locator provides alerts based on earth. Photo Enforcement Alerts Whenever your vehicle approaches a caution ... 15 minutes to detect the Global Position System satellites. 1. See www.cobra.com/AURA for GM). Consult your dealer to the sky. 2. Keep the detector turned On for instructions on the detector. I Provides speed and direction of travel information using the GPS satellite system...
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...damages, so the above limitations may not apply to ship the product for warranty service, but the return charges will be at its Cobra 15 Band Radar/Laser Detectors, and the component parts thereof, will be free of defects in the U.S.A. If the serial number has been altered, defaced or removed... entire product; 3. Please allow limitations on any product damaged by the first consumer purchaser, provided that its option, defective 15 Band Radar/Laser Detectors, products or component parts upon receipt of a sales receipt. If the product is utilized within the U.S.A.
...damages, so the above limitations may not apply to ship the product for warranty service, but the return charges will be at its Cobra 15 Band Radar/Laser Detectors, and the component parts thereof, will be free of defects in the U.S.A. If the serial number has been altered, defaced or removed... entire product; 3. Please allow limitations on any product damaged by the first consumer purchaser, provided that its option, defective 15 Band Radar/Laser Detectors, products or component parts upon receipt of a sales receipt. If the product is utilized within the U.S.A.