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Thank you for purchasing Card, Stinger’s unmatched technology in the size of a credit card. A high quality product like Stinger Card, should come with an equally high level of service. Therefore please note that you can direct all your questions regarding your Card to Stinger by simply calling us on +31 (0) 252 41 80 95.
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The modules Card is a modular system. This not only has the advantage that Card can easily be confi gured to your personal wishes, but also makes it more ‘future proof’. If Stinger makes a new module for Card available, it can easily be clicked into the system. Software updates can simply be downloaded via the Stinger Desktop.
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Stinger Card. If you have a BASIC E.U. VERSION of Stinger Card and you are driving in a country where you do have the freedom to use Radar Alerting and/or Laser Alerting, you can download and install the software appropriate for that country.
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Whenever your Card has been inserted in the Card Holder it will automatically switch on and off along with your ignition. You can also switch off your Card by simply taking it out of the holder. Use the touch keys to further control Card’s options. Status and Level LEDs, as well as clear audio signals, will be used in case of alerts.
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You are approaching a SpotList location such as a loop camera SPECS Alerting active You have entered a SPECS location Card will not play audio alerts when travelling Audio alert currently muted by SpeedSense under SpeedSense threshold FalseList functionality active...
Controls Selection mode You can easily turn your Card’s many functionalities on or off by entering Selection mode: Function Function 1. Simultaneously touch the - and 2. The LED belonging to the fi rst 3. Touch the - key to switch off the 4.
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Police in Europe and elsewhere use quite a few ways to check motorists for speed, and an even greater variety of equipment to carry out these checks. Each type of speed trap requires a special approach of your Card. For the different types of speed traps for which it offers protection, your Card has a particular warning LED and alert tone, activated on approach of the specifi c speed trap.
Induction loop camera’s, such as Truvelo, use loops embedded in the road, instead of radar, to measure speed. These cameras therefore cannot be found by Radar Alerting or a radar detector. However, by their nature induction loops are in fi xed locations and Stinger has mapped virtually all of them and incorporated them in the Stinger SpotList database.
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Mac or PC (see page 16). On returning to the country where Radar Alerting is not permitted, you can erase this function again by simultaneously holding both the S (on the back of the card) and the + key for longer than 3 seconds. This will turn your Card into a BASIC E.U.
B. The central system therefore knows how long it took you to drive from A to B and will automatically calculate your average speed. Your Card takes you through Section Control locations with the help of easy to understand alerts. You will always be aware of when a route begins, what the approximate remaining length of the route is and if your average speed is within the legal limit.
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Laser speed traps If you have equipped your Card with Stinger Laser modules, it can protect you against speed traps carried out with laser guns Stinger Laser offers two forms of protection against laser beams. Laser Alerting involves a visual and audio alarm in case your car gets shot at by laser.
Car-to-car Safety Signals A vehicle equipped with a Stinger with Laser that has to suddenly hit the brakes, can instantly give following cars with Stinger Laser an early warning for this dangerous traffi c situation. A function that can literally save lives.
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Card however, indicating that the alarm has been suppressed by FalseList. Your Card will still sound an audio alarm in case of a real speed trap at the same location, since the ‘fi ngerprint’ for that signal will usually differ from the one in the FalseList database.
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It takes two simple steps to store and manage your PoliceCheck data: 1. Take your Card out of your car and use the PC Interface (available as an option) to connect it to your Mac or PC via a USB port.
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5. Click this button to check for software updates. If updates are available, a window on which you can start the updates will appear. 6. After downloading the most recent Stinger SpotList from www.stinger.com you must use this button to install it on your Card.
Optional settings (follow-up to page 7) • MENU LEVEL 1 (- and + hold 1 second) Function Option Number of leds (red) K-Band off K-Band low power only All K-Bands 5 (factory setting) SpeedSense off SpeedSense 30 km/u SpeedSense 50 km/u 5 (factory setting) •...
Laser safety The Stinger Freedom Laser has been tested and classifi ed as a class 1 laser product in accordance to European and international eye safety regulations EN 60825-1 (2014) and IEC 60825-1 (2014) under normal operating conditions and those of single fault failure.
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Stinger is dedicated to developing speed trap protection for performance cars. Driven by our passion for cars and freedom, we are fully committed to building the best products we can with today’s technology. For any Stinger product-related questions or the address of a Stinger reseller near you: please contact Stinger. We are happy to help.
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