For the past 17 years I've worked for K40 Electronics Company involved in their product technology. For the past few years one of the main jobs I've had is to design and build custom test equiptment for K40 products. On this web site I've only included a few of the most recent of my designs, going back only a couple of years. These pictures represent only one of each of their respective series. There have been other peices designed by me but they are not pictured because they are so similar to those shown here.
Lets start with the basics. The simplest piece I think
I've made is a fixture for testing power/data transmission cables.
This particular test fixture is used to test the completely
assembled control heads and control modules for the K40
Remote Radar Detectors. It incorporates a self contained
radar receiver, radar source and laser trigger device.
It became necessary to test the series 1000 and
2000 control modules without their cabling. In other
words, just the bare circuit boards. These two testers
were made to accomodate that need. They use pogo
pins to make the connection to the circuit boards and
contain similar circuitry to the previously mentioned tester.
This is the last of the testers dedicated to the K40 Remote Radar
control modules. This devise is designed to test only the uninstalled
on/off/volume control/switch. The switch is a sensitive peice and is
the only discrete component that is specifically tested in its
unassembled state.
This is a tester for an accessory to the Remote Radar Detectors
which is no longer in current production but is still in use. It tests
laser receivers that can be used with the remote radars to add the
feature of detecting the signal emitted by police laser systems.
This piece has been replaced by the
K40 Laser Defuser Plus.
This test fixture is one of two similar testers for the
K40 Laser Defuser Plus. The one that I generally use
on my bench is the one that has the built in ammeter
used to detect minor fluxuations in current when
exposed to ambient light so that I can judge the
potentical for false readings.
K40 Electronics is now in the process of bringing a revolutionary new type of radar detector to market. I can finally talk about it since its national release on August 15, 2005. I've already designed and fabricated five different types of testers for this product, only two of which are pictured here so far. The first, pictured to the right, is made to test the raw main board (called the Host) with no housing or wires.
The second tester, pictured to the left, is made to test the complete system housed and wired. The system includes the main, or Host module and one or two slave modules (depending on the particular system). The slave modules attached to and control the actual radar receivers.
The product is called the Calibre radar system (pronounced cal-a-ber). It consists of anywhere from three to 6 components depending on the configuration you want. All of the components communicate with each other wirlessly using BlueTooth technology.
Really neet!
Lets start with the basics. The simplest piece I think 
It became necessary to test the series 1000 and
