Best Settings

[BlinderGuy]

I will have my V1 tomorrow...The last one I had lasted 1 week before I sent it back because how noisy it was....What would be the best settings to use to minimized loud K band falses but still maintain real threat accuracy?

[Cips]

Aggressive K Band Automuting and keep it in Little L. That's the best you can do. Refer to the stickies on programming.

[jdong]

I'd recommend using a low mute volume setting then automuting K-band up to 6 dots for 30 seconds (nearly the most aggressive setting). Run in little L mode.

That way, your detector lights up in the presence of any radar signal, but doesn't begin beeping obnoxiously loud until it's probably certain the radar source is a threat. This gives you the best combination of most awaredness and least annoyance.

I've been around the block with all the major detectors and by far the V1 is the one I feel the most "safe" with... it has simply a very wide field of vision so to speak. I'd rather see the V1 quietly light up one-dot K, squint and look off the highway and see a shopping center. That gives me peace of mind, compared to driving right beside a shopping complex and barely getting a single K-band alert reaching the road (i.e. my X50 and XTR-690)

[BlinderGuy]

I'd recommend using a low mute volume setting then automuting K-band up to 6 dots for 30 seconds (nearly the most aggressive setting). Run in little L mode.

That way, your detector lights up in the presence of any radar signal, but doesn't begin beeping obnoxiously loud until it's probably certain the radar source is a threat. This gives you the best combination of most awaredness and least annoyance.

I've been around the block with all the major detectors and by far the V1 is the one I feel the most "safe" with... it has simply a very wide field of vision so to speak. I'd rather see the V1 quietly light up one-dot K, squint and look off the highway and see a shopping center. That gives me peace of mind, compared to driving right beside a shopping complex and barely getting a single K-band alert reaching the road (i.e. my X50 and XTR-690)

I'll tr it..I hope it isn't hard to program.

[jdong]

I'll tr it..I hope it isn't hard to program.

If you have the chart in front of you, not hard at all. It's just a bunch of up or down settings like a DIP switch. If you don't have the documentation and are trying to remember what option F was, sure, that'd be a pain.

[FoolishOne]

Because the V1's great sniffing power, putting it to 6 dots will give you plenty of time to slow down if need be. Doesn't reach full lock until the LEO can get a read on your vehicle, supposedly.

[noTe]

I will have my V1 tomorrow...The last one I had lasted 1 week before I sent it back because how noisy it was....What would be the best settings to use to minimized loud K band falses but still maintain real threat accuracy?

By buying a different radar detector. It is a RADAR detector, not a police detector. Gee, you sell laser jammers and you don't even know this?

Doesn't reach full lock until the LEO can get a read on your vehicle, supposedly.

There is no way that is accurate.

[jdong]

Because the V1's great sniffing power, putting it to 6 dots will give you plenty of time to slow down if need be. Doesn't reach full lock until the LEO can get a read on your vehicle, supposedly.

The latter is probably untrue. For a straight constant-on encounter it's probably accurate, but I wouldn't ignore things until THEN for a real world attack.

The V1 even on 6 dot unmute still gives you plenty of time to react IMO from when it unmutes to when trouble strikes.

Nonetheless, the point is, it keeps you informed passively all the time.

[FoolishOne]

I've heard it a few times, doesn't mean its entirely true though. Its usually not a problem as, for me, it hits full lock as soon as a line of sight is reached. Anything before that, is icing on the cake.

[FoolishOne]

Knew I read it somewhere...

An officer will not have a speed reading unless your V1 is at "full bars" or very close to it.

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...t-reading.html