Sleet blocked our radar on Mother's Day

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ken wells

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Strange weather today, a long drive home and when we swapped drivers, our son pointed out a brake malfunction and an ACC malfunction warning on the console (I had been asleep). Since we had been driving in weird sleet, I got out and checked. Sure enough, a 1/2" coating of sleet only on the license plate and the Honda emblem that shields the radar. The rest of the car was totally clear. Strange, but I flicked the sleet off and everything is fine again. Some thermal conductivity characteristic of the emblem allowed build up. We need a control that temporarily sends a full kW out of the radar emitter to de-ice the shield (kidding).
 
ken wells said:
Strange weather today, a long drive home and when we swapped drivers, our son pointed out a brake malfunction and an ACC malfunction warning on the console (I had been asleep). Since we had been driving in weird sleet, I got out and checked. Sure enough, a 1/2" coating of sleet only on the license plate and the Honda emblem that shields the radar. The rest of the car was totally clear. Strange, but I flicked the sleet off and everything is fine again. Some thermal conductivity characteristic of the emblem allowed build up. We need a control that temporarily sends a full kW out of the radar emitter to de-ice the shield (kidding).
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On the recommendation of someone on this forum I bought DuPont Teflon Snow and Ice Repellent, but I never had a chance to try it out. I was waiting for a day when my radar dish got coated with ice before cleaning it off, spraying on the repellent, and going out again to see if it works.
 
ken wells said:
Strange weather today, a long drive home and when we swapped drivers, our son pointed out a brake malfunction and an ACC malfunction warning on the console (I had been asleep). Since we had been driving in weird sleet, I got out and checked. Sure enough, a 1/2" coating of sleet only on the license plate and the Honda emblem that shields the radar. The rest of the car was totally clear. Strange, but I flicked the sleet off and everything is fine again. Some thermal conductivity characteristic of the emblem allowed build up. We need a control that temporarily sends a full kW out of the radar emitter to de-ice the shield (kidding).
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That would help melt the ice off the tail lights of the car in front too. Nifty idea.
 
I likey, but will Honda pay for any three headed offspring that might result?
There’s a reason why fighter jets are not allowed to operate their radar on the ground while mechanics are around.
 
KentuckyKen said:
I likey, but will Honda pay for any three headed offspring that might result?
There’s a reason why fighter jets are not allowed to operate their radar on the ground while mechanics are around.
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I was disappointed years ago when Snopes debunked the decades-old fable of the "cooked telephone man:"

(25 December 1998, Canada) Telephone relay company night watchman Edward Baker, 31, was killed early Christmas morning by excessive microwave radiation exposure. He was apparently attempting to keep warm next to a telecommunications feedhorn.
 
Yeah, that one’s too good to be true. But I read we got microwave ovens because an engineer noticed his lunch would heat up next to a radar emitter and so the first commercially available microwave ovens were called Radar Ranges (by Amana). If you remember those, you are officially old.
 
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