Valentine 1 question

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    Occasionally, after picking up Ka band radar, my V1 will go silent and flash a "J" on the display. I looked in the manual and there isn't anything in there about it. Does anyone know what this might mean? and is it affecting the radar sensitivity?
     
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    That stands for a junk signal, most likely from someone else's crappy detector.
     
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    yup... theres a weird beeping.. not the same as Ka...
     
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    yea its another persons detector i had a freind following me with one just a cheap cobra i think it was after every hill when his detector would line up with my rear sensor it would go off
     
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    Anybody else getting all kinds of false signals on their V1 from various GM brakelights and Infinity radar cruise systems?
     
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    i get faulses from various led brake lights
     
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    Yeah I get the Infinity laser cruise systems as well.


    The Trailblazer and Envoy use a neon brake light, so that sets it off when you are at the right following distance. Or whenever I get gas at night at the Shell in Mankato. There is an Arby's next door with a ton of red neon.
     
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    A couple of times it's flashed a "J" at me, and then I see the cruiser anyway. Be careful, even with those!
     
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    Trailblazers, Envoys, and let's not forget the Bravada.

    My old roommate at UMD had one, and he got false signals only under very specific instances. V1 pretty much r0x0rz.
     
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    Hmmm... I have a 9000i and haven't noticed anything from brake lights at all. As far as the Infinity radar cruise systems I will have to see next time I am near a vehicle with one. Is this a Valentine specfic issue?
     
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    The manual for the V1 actaully says GM cars will cause this.
     
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    ^^ thanks. GM didn't make Trailblazers and Envoys when I bought mine. V1's haven't changed much, if any, in years.
     
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    i get false alarms from the trailblazers and Envoys quite a bit. Ive also had it happen from new(ish) Muranos a couple times. thanks for the help with the flashing J thing. Its never happened in the same location before, so i was really confused at to what it might be.
     
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    Yeah i am not sure if it is new lights Downtown but I am getting a lot more false reads when i am driving around Downtown MPLS, in places where it wasn't happening last month. So it looks like stoplights/LED billboards may be doing it too.