I remembe reading a speedlabs report where they show that high beams were enough to disrupt laser speed guns a little. Furthermore, they actually said that standard laser jamming gear works well too.

Then - in an unrelated turn of events - I read about Humvee's with infrared headlights for drivers wearing night-goggles...

I coupled the two stories together and have ever since wanted to have infrared headlights to continually jam laser.

Now, I find myself with a car that's got a pair of unused headlights - the center pair on my M Coupe - but I don't have the skills needed to bring this to fruitition.

So - I'm throwing this out to the community. Whether retrofitting a jamming kit, or just putting in a set of proper IR illuminators that are on the same wavelength as the lidars - I'm all ears and will work with you if you have the skills to design the system.

I think we can all benefit from this!! So please chime in if you have any thoughts.

<sorry for cross posting to multiple forums - wanted to get highest coverage>

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You would have to find the operating frequency of the lidar system and then find something that would broadcast the same frequency of light. Getting in there will be a pain tho.

Yeah, while very progressive in thinking....accomplishing this task would be of epic astronomical proportions...:dunno

I don't know about epic. Think blinder (as in www blinder.de) take those units apart and voila, all done. As far as frequency goes.. 904 nm. Done.

The speedlabs test showed that just low beams helped in throwing off laser, high beams even more so... I'm thinking that fitting a fixed bulb or small array of 904 nm LEDs mounted in the empty lamp housing should do it. Picking up power from a standard Z halogen cable would feed it. Not monumental at all...

Wish I had the wherewithall to do this - I think it would sell like mad!

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Getting in there will be a pain tho.

not really. its about as easy as taking the back panel off of an e36 euro projector headlights

I don't know about epic. Think blinder (as in www blinder.de) take those units apart and voila, all done. As far as frequency goes.. 904 nm. Done.

The speedlabs test showed that just low beams helped in throwing off laser, high beams even more so... I'm thinking that fitting a fixed bulb or small array of 904 nm LEDs mounted in the empty lamp housing should do it. Picking up power from a standard Z halogen cable would feed it. Not monumental at all...

Wish I had the wherewithall to do this - I think it would sell like mad!

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how do you find a bulb with that specific frequency?

did you ever figure anything out about this? Any commercial jammers that work for lidar?

Speaking of lidar jammers...does anybody here have a system installed on their Z4? I figure they'd fit behind the two grills between the headlights, but they're not really supposed to have anything in front of them, so I wasn't sure how that would work.

Sorry, not trying to derail the thread, but it seemed like a valid in-thread topic :-)

There are a ton of great products - Blinder being one of them. They do fit between grills (sort of), but are very visible and now in IL are illegal. Hence the "in the headlights" concept.

Wish someone had enough skills to do this!! I'd pay for it.

did you ever figure anything out about this? Any commercial jammers that work for lidar?
Look at the www.escortradar.com (http://www.escortradar.com) website... the shifter zr3 is a laser jammer which works in conjunction with their radar detectors.