Comments on: Valentine 1 -v- Arizona DPS Photo Radar Van

By: MrBadfish2

MrBadfish2 — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:08:47 +0000

I live in California, and I HAVE been in AZ and I HAVE veteran their radar vans, my Valentine 1 gave ample time to brake to dodge speeding tickets. YOu still haven’t answer MY questions..
WHAT GOOD IS YOUR PRODUCT IF THEY MOVE THE SPEED VAN SOMEWHERE ELSE?????
WHAT GOOD IS YOUR PRODUCT IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY PASSED BY A SPEED VAN IN THE FIRST PLACE IN ORDER TO MARK A GPS LOCATION???

By: MrBadfish2

MrBadfish2 — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:56:53 +0000

And in response to your “fake alarms” comment.. The valentine 1 has the best fake alarm supression system on the market. Seldom do I ever get X band alarms, and all K and KA radar bands are detected…Anyone that owns a Valentine 1 long enough will know what type of signals to pay attention to or not.

By: MrBadfish2

MrBadfish2 — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:56:28 +0000

The key here folks is a excellent warning from radar units and LIDAR units where ever they may be. The fact is a GPS unit does NO excellent to a driver driving down a road he/she has never been down …But, a Valentine 1 is certainly going to give proper warning to any threats. END OF STORY.

By: speedcheetah

speedcheetah — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:24:30 +0000

I work for Cheetah. Of course our videos are here to help clarify Cheetah products. The title of the Channel should be a clue.

This video was made as a act of kindness for the radar detector convergence to show a new threat that folks should take sincerely, and perhaps re-evaluate how they treat low strength freeway alerts. It shows how small range even a fantastic detector like the V1 has against some of the latest camera vans. Cheaper detectors (sub $300) won’t even give an alert until you pass the van.

By: speedcheetah

speedcheetah — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:55:35 +0000

I’ll say it again. The Cheetah C100 is not a radar detector so it doesn’t detect radar. It alerts to locations that are stored in its database and memory. The point of the product is to alert to fixed speed cameras, red light cameras, speed-on-conservational, point-to-point cameras, etc. It can help for mobile traps by alerting to the fixed locations where they are often set up, or by alerting to locations that they mark themselves.

By: speedcheetah

speedcheetah — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:04:09 +0000

Mobile camera reminders on the C100 do not mean that the camera is necessarily here at that exact moment in time. They mean that you are approaching a location where police are well known to set up mobile traps, so be on the look out in this area.

By: speedcheetah

speedcheetah — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:25:03 +0000

And that’s the point. All K band sources are detected. This includes every Wallgreens, CVS, gas station and mall car park because automatic doors mostly use K Band radar in the police spectrum. These are the most irritating fake alarms for most radar detector users. When you hook up a C100 to the Valentine 1 using a Cheetah Radar Detector Interface, the C100 can get rid of these falses using speed-sensitive automatic muting.

By: speedcheetah

speedcheetah — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:46:26 +0000

You’re not looking at the larger picture. You’re only looking at mobile camera vans. The Valentine 1 is fantastic for detecting radar but it doesn’t alert to red light cameras, speed cameras, speed-on-conservational red light cameras or point-to-point average speed cameras. It doesn/’t give you reminders about well known speed trap areas where the police might be using Instant On or laser. You can’t mark locations on the Valentine 1. You can’t update it through the internet. That’s what the C100 is for.

By: speedcheetah

speedcheetah — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:04:11 +0000

As the average red light camera ticket in California has now gone up to $436, rather than bashing our product, I would urge you watch some of the other videos on the C100 to see how it can enhance your V1 experience.

By: speedcheetah

speedcheetah — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:03:13 +0000

Of course we’re not competing against the V1. We make a Cheetah Radar Detector Interface to plug into the V1 to help with fake alarm suppression.

We don’t make Radar Detector Interfaces for all radar detectors, only the excellent ones. If we didn’t rate the V1, we wouldn’t have bothered to make an interface for it, now would we?