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Quote by ahmadr: "No. Do you think VR would waste extra metal to reduce performance?!"


No but when MEM-TEK says he tweaked a V1 I believe him. I know he won't state what he did but I just wondered if anyone knew of anything that could be done.

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...tml#post567576

MEM-TEK was right.... I hate addictions. Since I was a co runner of this test its only fair I answer some questions.

STI Driver was a winshield unit date code 2508. Never sent in for ramp-up fix.

34.7 Look closely at all the V1 runs, DJ's and Mine. On his runs where his scored .4x in distance his V1 was able to see over the hill. My V1 never did scoring .2x etc .
The Ci saw over the hill each run, as did the STI, and DJ's V1 on 2 runs, but all other units didnt see over it, alerting at .2x closer to the crest of the hill.

Dj used a handheld gps unit to measure the alert distance with such precision.

Keep in mind that I did do a very small tweak to DJ's V1 to give its forward antenna a bit more bias. It was the least I could do since he let me borrow it for so long for testing purposes and since he gave me permission to fully disassemble it in order to take photos of its design and construction. I will NOT disclose, publicly or privately, exactly what I did. Yet also keep in mind that the tweak resulted in a relatively minor change in overall performance. In other words, most of the performance difference is due to firmware versions.

[ahmadr]

I did do a very small tweak to DJ's V1 to give its forward antenna a bit more bias. ... Yet also keep in mind that the tweak resulted in a relatively minor change in overall performance. In other words, most of the performance difference is due to firmware versions.

Furthermore, if you just change the forward (vs backwards I assume) BIAS, you are not increasing sensitivity, just thowing off the direction detection logic.

And most of the sensitivity difference between newer (3.813+) V1s is not due to firmware versions, but due to manufacturing variances.

Finally, I have a bridge to sell