I have a friend who owns a valentine one. its begining to go nutty on her...

The problem Is it turns on and off on its own... Apparantly theres a faulty contact within the sucker...Any of you guys bored this week and wanna take a look at it. Ill bring it too BB's if i get the say-so.

Thanks alot,
Sonic

 

It's probably the cig lighter plug or her cig lighter itself

 

It could be just a crappy power cable. Just get a new telephone cord and plug it in, see if it helps.

 

yea, she did that... To no avail... Again if any of u wanna take this sucker home and tear it apart... id be verrrry thankfull

 

How cute is your friend

 

take her home and tear her apart?
*searches for his electronics for dummies book*

 

Maybe a superior detector like a K40 blew its circuits!lol

PM Macgyver maybe he knows a thing or two about it. He does own one also, I think.

Deiger

 

I realize this response won't help you much but it simply has to be done, given
the opportunity so gift-wrapped to Matt and I (I just bought, following the
recommendation of my state trooper brother, the newest K40, the 850
model while Matt owns the previous version; both exemplary
radar detectors).

K40 Valentine One

Remember....we set off YOU but you don't set off US. There's a reason for that.

http://www.detectortest.com/article.asp?articleid=9070

 

Actually, Russ, the fact that you set other radar detectors off says YOUR detector is not properly shielded, therefore it's a piece of crap What do you think is setting off the Valentines when the K40 is near it, radar envy? No, it's the K40's local oscillator leaking through the package due to insufficient shielding....sorry, if that's the case, I'll take my ultra-sensitive Valentine any day.

 

Actually, my detector does NOT set-off all detectors (not sure about Matt's earlier
version, the 650). I've operated alongside Joe's Passport 8500
with no problem. Only the V1 goes whacky and there is a reason for that (as I suspect you
know). It falses more than any other top-rated detector available and the principal reason
my brother doesn't recommend it. Direction arrows mean little to me when they're set off
by the entrance to Piggly Wiggly.

You won't convince me Dan, sorry. I've read all the reviews. Pro and Con.
It's a good radar detector, make no mistake about it, but the gap has closed and the
deciding factor for me came from 1) K40 pays your tickets for up to one year following purchase and registration and 2) this link:

http://k40.com/Technical/pdf/Monitoring_Ti...mes_Article.pdf

Either way, I don't usually speed much so much of this discussion is moot.