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Controls & Functions

How Valentine One Works

Everybody wants Full Coverage against radar; nobody

wants to go to college to learn how to use his new radar

detector. So I’ve worked extra hard to make Valentine One

logical. It’s far easier to operate than many ordinary

detectors, yet it tells you far more about radar.

A New Way to Set Loudness

Valentine One has two controls for loudness so you can

take complete control of sound. The Control Knob sets

what I call “initial” volume. This is the loudness you will

normally hear on initial radar contact. Once you’re aware

of the threat, you can drop to a quieter, reminder sound

which I call “muted” volume. Just press the Control Knob.

This muted volume is adjusted by the lever behind the

knob. How loud do you like your reminder? The choice

is yours.

Push To Mute

During any alert, press the Control Knob. Audio volume

will drop to the muted level.

What Long-Gradient audio does for you

Valentine One’s audio warning indicates radar strength.

It gives a very slow Beep for X band (Brap for K band,

Brap-brap for Ka band) when it encounters weak radar,

then quickens as radar strength increases, and becomes a

continuous tone about the time you’re in range. This long

gradient, from slow Beep to continuous tone, makes it easy

to estimate radar proximity, which is very important during

brief Instant-on encounters. In the case of multiple bogeys,

the audio warning will always monitor the greatest threat.

What the Bogey Counter does for you

Every alert, until you’ve positively identified the source,

is an unknown, a bogey. But an alert may consist of more

than one bogey. There could be many. Let’s say you drive

by a burglar alarm on the way to work every day that

causes an alert. Then one day you pick up an additional

bogey. This new bogey could be radar hiding under cover

of the burglar alarm, picking off the unwary. You must

assume each alert is radar until you’ve identified the bogey.

For more information see pages 5-6.

Control Lever

Sets volume after mute takes

place; clockwise is louder. Full

clockwise makes muted volume

same as initial volume

Radar Locator

Radar ahead Radar to the side Radar behind

Note: In the case of multiple bogeys

from different directions, an arrow will

glow for each direction. The strongest

threat will be indicated by a blinking

arrow. The audio warning will

correspond to the blinking arrow

Control Knob

On – Turn clockwise

Volume – Turn to adjust

Off – Turn counter-clockwise past detent

Mute – Press during radar alert

Modes – Press and hold to change

Brightness – Automatically matched to ambient

lighting; no manual adjustment

(Unit powers up in the last

mode selected)

Bogey Counter

blank – power off

– power on, All-Bogeys

mode

– power on, Logic

mode

– power on, Advanced-Logic

mode

– one bogey

etc. – number of bogeys being tracked

– laser warning

– alert terminated; not radar

Front Antenna, Radar and Laser

Needs unobstructed view ahead

Rear Antenna

Needs unobstructed

view behind

Rear Laser Sensor

Needs unobstructed view behind

Radar-strength Indicator

More LEDs glow as

radar gets stronger

Speaker

Modular Jack

Computer Modes: A new way to interpret alarms

In the All-Bogeys

( ) mode, all bogeys will be reported

as soon as they are detected. Use your judgment to decide

whether or not they are threats.

In the Logic

( ) and Advanced-Logic

( ) modes, you are

deferring to the internal computer which will use its own

logic to screen bogeys before reporting them to you.

In Logic, X-band bogeys the computer judges to be

non-threatening will be reported at the “muted” volume. If

they become threatening, the audio warning will upgrade

to the “initial” volume before you are within radar range.

In Advanced-Logic, X-band bogeys that the computer has

reason to believe aren’t radar will not be reported at all.

One exception: To be failsafe, the computer will always

pass extremely strong signals along for your judgment.

This mode is particularly useful in metro areas.

The computer is smart: It never operates the receiving

circuits at less than maximum sensitivity and it knows that

Instant-on is a greater threat than ordinary radar. So it will

always warn you immediately at the “initial” volume when

those radars are detected, no matter what mode you’ve

selected.

To change modes, press and hold the Control Knob for

one second.

What the Bogey Lock tone means

Valentine One is designed to track multiple threats. During

an alert, when Valentine One locks on to an additional

bogey, it notifies you with the Bogey Lock tone (“Dee-

Deet”). This sound will never be heard at any other time,

not even during the power-on ritual. Whenever you hear

this sound, it means that another bogey has been detected

and is being tracked. The bogey counter shows the number

of bogeys being tracked at that time.

What the “Dee-Dah-Doo” Tone means

Valentine One is designed to recognize — and ignore —

phony radar signals from poorly-designed detectors.

Occasionally a false alarm will be started before verification

is certain. If it then determines the source is a junk detector,

it will notify you it is retracting that alert with a “Dee-Dah-

Doo” sound. A flashing J ( ) indicating “junk” will appear

in the Bogey Counter.

Band Identification

Note: In the case of multiple

bogeys on different bands, a

blinking LED will indicate the

strongest threat.

For Laser Warning

See page 11.

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