although I forgot to add. The STi has AMAZING filtering. in Highway mode I think it picked up 9 out of the 10 if I remember correctly. Then in City Mode it only alerted to like 1K... I was really impressed with it.
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although I forgot to add. The STi has AMAZING filtering. in Highway mode I think it picked up 9 out of the 10 if I remember correctly. Then in City Mode it only alerted to like 1K... I was really impressed with it.
How does its filtering mode? Does it just lower the sensitivity on K-band by a static amount, or tune all sensitivities based on a statistically "normal" noise floor calculation?Quote:
Originally Posted by thestaton
I believe it lowers DB's & it looks for pattern matching. Say if it sees 2X & K etc etc. that is 100% pure speculation without any fact, so take it for what it's worth.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdong
Interesting... Lowering sensitivity dynamically sounds sane to me, but personally I don't want my detector making very primitive (speaking from a logic perspective) pattern matches and discarding signals.... But that's just my opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by thestaton
Most likely there is no sensitivity reduction at the front end, but additional signal processing is performed in order to decide whether to report the incoming signal as an alert. That's how I would design it.
First of all I think that speedzones website is the worse most un-user-friendly site ever designed. The way they present the results could be done better by a 3 year old with crayons and contruction paper.
Second, what's with the girl models? One of their pics was a girl with a radar detector on top of her head...
http://www.speedzones.com/all-band-detection.html
or something else even more obscure
http://www.speedzones.com/false-alerts.html
So yeah, I'm not going to take them seriously whatseover.
I'm sorry but WHAT? I know personally if you turn X band off its off as well as K so I'm not sure how his results say they are turned off and it found more.Quote:
The Valentine One reported four (4) X band false alerts and six (6) K band false alerts in the small “l” mode in Run #3. Valentine One’s Bogey counter showed 5 X band bogies, i.e. five radar guns or sources and 4 K band radar guns or sources in Run #1 in its All Bogey® “A” mode. In the large “L” mode it showed three bogies on K band. Valentine One can be set in No X and No K with requested factory settings.
I did the first run with the Valentine before they took it away, and it was hard to tell how many false's it was picking up due to the dual antenna. I was going by the bogey lock tone, and I think I came up with 18. Being the front antenna would find it, then as we would pass by the rear antenna would re-find it.
Maybe we can get the Cobra guys to chime in? Or maybe actually following my so freakin SIMPLE hands on approach on how to turn off X or K they could of have did that.
What's not said... One was revision 3.824 and it completely out of tune. It was blind to X & K like all out of tune units. The other was revision 3.826 and it was a nice unit. The 3rd one was John Turners brand new 3.858 I believe.Quote:
During our complete testing we used three Valentine One detectors with the following serial numbers: 3302040846, 4655130797, and 9184290895.
However, at the false testing there was only 1 V1 present and that was John Turners 3.858.
Finally, who in there right mind would think that the V1 wouldn't find all the falses in A compared to big L or little L. anyone who has ever used one knows this is bogus.
god what a mess.
but since I did the 9500i testing I can already tell it's wrong. I know I had to lock out 1 if not 2 known sources...
Of all the ones I believe the STi looks the most accurate.
One thing that really struck me was the POP test results in K band - correct me if i'm wrong here thestaton. According to them, they used the Z25 or Z35 and a lot of RD's detected it which i believe is not true. Has anyone noticed the POP test results?
I noticed that Azone, and you're right! And, this is the third year now that SML reported a bunch of detector alerting to 16ms POP :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by Azonehits
So either 1) the gun's weren't actually in POP mode, or 2) they held the trigger too long.
From the appearance of the results, they almost certainly tested 67ms K-band POP, not 16ms. Their writeup blurb only refers to the 67ms number.Quote:
Originally Posted by Azonehits
Knowing their love for sensationalist blurbs, I'm SURE if they tested 16ms POP, they'd have a amazing sounding writeup about it! lol
they did both. but here is why the alerted. something was obviously wrong some where. the pop guns where not getting speeds until 350FT. The STi alerted to 16MS one time and I was in utter shock.
who knows.
they did the pop test kind of like a laser jammer test.
1000FT Cone & 500FT cone then you drive forward until the gun gets your speed or you get the alert first.
That sounds like a gun malfunction...Quote:
Originally Posted by thestaton
It's surprising to see that after 3 years, they should have known how to use the Z25/35 properly.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimbonzzz
Did they at least use the same test vehicle so there would be no difference in glass and reflections?