Valentine One Constantly Falses KA

[crimson5liter]

I have a V1 on 3.812 which has been very problematic for quite some time but ESPECIALLY as of late. My dad purchased the detector a long time ago but retired it because it just wasn't very reliable. I decided to give it a try and put it in my Mustang about a week and a half ago. It preformed pretty well in L mode but had some false alarms, but nothing terrible.
However, two days ago I went out with a friend who had a brand new V1 and his detector was reading some K band alerts while mine was silent. After some time of it reading and mine doing nothing, I restarted my detector by turning it off and then back on. It instantly picked up 1-3 (varying) KA band alerts at medium to high strength. Every since then, those alerts have not gone away anywhere I go for more than 10 seconds. The mode doesn't matter, the silence level doesn't matter, it just keeps flashing KA at low to all the way high strength. I am not sure what's wrong with it. It has falsed but never like this and never unceasing KA.

Is there any fix for this? Please help. A

Post automatically merged: Jul 16, 2019

I found some other forum posts of other users getting these but none of the fixes have done anything. I don't know what can fix it short of just shipping it off. However, that wouldn't explain why all of the sudden it just broke itself after years of working fairly well.

 

[RadarSammich]

It's fallen out of tune. Needs repair.

 

[Deacon]

It's fallen out of tune. Needs repair.

Even better an upgrade so it doesn’t happen again in the future. Hopefully VR will be opening the tap for upgrades again soon.

 

[Bloovy One]

There are some good improvements since 3.812.
See this thread:

Valentine One -- Versions through the years

I pulled this information off the web (wiki) for RDF members to quickly reference the different hardware and software versions of Valentine One detectors over the years: Each hardware version has an associated software version with it. Thanks to mrkookm, hardware refers to the internal...

www.rdforum.org

 

[LouG]

That was the symptom when mine went out of tune, no K detection.
It can't happen on newer versions.

 

[fishing66]

There are certain devices which can trigger Ka alerts such as some makes of dash cams and in-vehicle electronics. What kind of car are you driving?