Arrived home to my new radar detector sitting on the door step. I hadn’t really planned on starting my “stealth install” project until the weekend but i couldn’t just let it sit there. So I opened her up and proceeded to identify my solder points for extending the buttons and the led display. The buttons were super easy to test and validate. My unit (Escort 8500) only has 3 buttons, so 6 wires in total. The led display will prove to be the biggest pain. I have 6 solder points i need to release =/ Not entirely sure at this point how to easily get them released. so in all i have 12 wires to run out of the unit to the remote install location. I happen to find a ton of old phone cord that has 6 wires, so it looks like i’ll be running 2 of them.
