Maintenance
20 English
Maintenance
•
Maintenance of Your Radar Detector
Your detector is designed and built to give you years of
trouble-free performance without the need for service.
No routine
Maintenance
is required.
If your unit does not appear to be operating properly,
please follow these troubleshooting steps:
■
Make sure the power cord is properly connected.
■
Make sure the socket of your vehicle’s cigarette lighter
is clean and free of corrosion.
■
Make sure the power cord’s cigarette lighter adapter
is firmly seated in your cigarette lighter.
■
Check the power cord fuse. (Unscrew the ribbed end cap of
the cigarette lighter adapter and examine the fuse. If required,
replace it with a 2-amp fuse only.)
Your Detector
Getting Started and
Auxiliary Audio Jack
Getting Started
•
Your Detector
Nothing
Comes Close to a Cobra
®
5
System Ready
Power On
Testing
Voice Alert
On-Off/
Volume Control
Rotate clockwise
(away from you)
con
To Turn On the Unit and Adjust the Audio Volume
Rotate the
On-Off/
Volume
control
clockwise (away
from you).
Tone
Voice
Visual Display
Three beeps
Testing,
then
three beeps
System Ready,
then
Voice Alert
The display will
cycle through and
show the user
modes.
Start-up is complete when the display continuously
shows the letters indicating the current user settings
(
c
=
City
mode,
h
=
Highway
mode,
i
=
IntelliMute
on)
Start-Up Complete
h
Auxiliary Audio Jack
•
The Auxiliary Audio Jack can be used to connect external speakers in
environments with high ambient noise levels. The internal speaker will
be disconnected. (This uses a mini stereo audio connector.)
Auxiliary
Audio Jack
NOTE
In some vehicles, power is supplied to the cigarette lighter even while the ignition
is Off. If this is the case with your vehicle, you should turn Off or unplug your
detector when parking for lengthy periods.
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