Thanks guys, I appreciate it.
Yeah, you’re telling me. It went from borrowing a k band gun for a few hours of impromptu testing with some of the time delays, so I’d know what delay to use, to thinking I might as well share that with everyone, to a full blown structured test, including E,F,G.
The final test parameters are only a fraction of what I did to test and prepare the final results. As you may have read in the original post when I first started, it has grown and changed over the course.
I feel that anyone with a V1 can now look at these results and make an informed decision as to what combination of settings will work best for them. It doesn’t matter where they live or what kind of k band guns are used. With “A” as the baseline, you can see what type of range is lost with the different settings and apply them accordingly.
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V1 Dave
Good job that was a lot of work.
Pretty much what I thought is it appears that you stay fairly well protected if you don't mess with E and F and defiantly stay away from E and F at the same time for additional instant on protection.
I thought F alone would not change anything as it worked with E.
I could swear that (not another bet) option E and F muted all 8 LED's but the VR web site says stays muted at 6. I have an old chart at work but I am on vacation for two weeks. Maybe I will test that, or maybe that changed with the transition from 1.7 to 1.8
I thought the exact same thing about E,F. If I hadn’t of done this testing, I might have changed E and F and thought wow, it’s much quieter. Then driven down my same stretch of road and gotten nailed on instant on k band, wondering why it stayed silent.
In all seriousness, if I changed E,F,G and added a 30 second delay, I could literally come up on an instant on trap, the officer could turn on the radar gun, clock me, leave it on, turn around, pull me over, leaving the k band gun on behind, all the while writing me a ticket and I’d think there’s no way he clocked me, because the V1 would stay silent the entire time, even with the radar on behind me. I actually performed this exact scenario test, and it went as described. VERY scary.
This is why I went into as much detail as I did on this test, people need to know this, so they don’t do the wrong combination of settings, and then wonder how they got clocked, when the V1 stayed silent. I wish VR would have explained these settings in detail. It sure would have saved me a lot of time.
Here’s that same video clip I posted in the initial post, showing the difference. If you actually time it, right after I turn with the doors behind me, the time delay is up and it stayed quiet. I stayed there for about another 20 seconds and nothing. Only when I turned to face the door did it alert. Also if you notice, I turned again and with the door to my back, the V1 again went silent. G can be a scary setting, unless a rear k band warning is 100% not an issue where someone lives.
Mode test: 6.39 MB. small
www.donspc.com/Forum/modetest1sm.wmv
Mode test: 19.6 MB. medium
www.donspc.com/Forum/modetest1md.wmv
Here’s a pic of the programming options for E,F,G.
I underlined what each one is supposed to do.
Now E does what is described, if F is left at default.
F will work similar to E, just 6 lights instead of 4. If E is left at default.
Now I read it that changing E and F it will still work like F, which is alert after 6 lights. The problem is, it won’t, not even for 8 lights or a full blast hit. It will only alert AFTER the time delay is up. They don’t explain this anywhere.
Now I read G as thinking mute means it will mute the audio on rear alerts. It doesn’t just mute them though, it doesn’t even alert at all. No flashing rear arrow, no flashing k light, bogey counter, nothing. I expected it to continue alerting, just turn off the volume if I’m driving by a false source. Changing b,c,d,E,F have no affect on it either. It will not give any rear indication of radar, period.
So there you have it.
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