Based on my wanting to have a remote display for my radar detector, and the strong recommendations here for the V1, I bought a V1 to try. I am about to figure out how to send it back.
I bet it is great in most rural areas of the country, but here in the Bay Area, it went off constantly. I tried using little L mode, big L mode, turning off X band completely, then finally turning off X band completely combined with big L mode. It still went off every few miles with false alarms. And that becomes more than an annoyance -- if you stop paying attention to it, you will not notice the real alert.
All along I kept my Passport 8500 hooked up, and it goes off about 1/10 as often. That in fact matches up with the test report I posted earlier. But I really wanted to try for myself since I wanted a remote display (and those arrows). Now I've proven it to myself -- if you mostly drive in a place with lots of false alarm sources like the SF Bay Area, you should get a Passport 8500, not a Valentine. Otherwise it's like the boy who cried wolf.
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Chip Alexander
'97 Blue/Tan NSX-T with Tubi Exhaust, Fiamm Horn
'92 Green/Tan Lexus SC400 Coupe
'02 Blue/Tan BMW 325iT Sportwagon
