johnnyjs1 wrote:May have one of these laying around (have to dig)....Much smaller and neater than the legalspeeding one. Made em for the Escort 8500 and the V1.
http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=648666
kylezx10 wrote:... thinking of mounting my V1 under the headlight with the squealer ...
FFlash wrote:I think I've finally figured out most of what I'll need to do in order to install my Valentine One detector on my 1290...
FFlash wrote:FFlash wrote:I think I've finally figured out most of what I'll need to do in order to install my Valentine One detector on my 1290...
Well, I was wrong! I hadn't really spent the time to understand exactly how I use the V-1 in my car. It turns out that I use the V-1's sound signal as my primary alert! And, as you all know, you can't hear anything much of anything from a bar mounted speaker above 50 mph.
In the car, what I do when the V-1 sounds off depends on how much over the limit I'm traveling. A little over and I'll look at the V-1's light signals to get more information before deciding my next step. If, however, I'm traveling at a painfully illegal speed, I'll immediately whack the brakes to get down to legal and then check the V-1's lights to see what's going on.
The end up was that I found two serious problems with the LED light in the helmet system I described in the first post.
1. No sound = a critical loss of important information.
The V-1's sound signals tell you what type of radar it is OR tells you that it's Laser. The speed of the beeps gives how far away the radar signal is.
2. I often did not immediately notice the bright red LED in the helmet!
That doesn't seem possible but it happened. Either my mental focus when on the bike is so strongly aimed at down the road that I ignore the light OR I just don't have the LED in the best position. What I do know is that a split second of indecision at way-too-far-over-the-limit could be very costly.
So, I needed to get sound into the helmet. Luckily I have a Sena SMH10R headset. I found that adding a Sena SM10 Bluetooth transmitter and plugging the headphone output of the V-1 Remote Audio Adapter into it gives me sound. The Sena headset plays the V-1 sound alerts any time the V-1 alerts. I suppose you could find a cheaper method but I wanted something as plug-and-play as I could get. I've no mental energy for futzing around trying to get things to work.
The other issue I found is that it's tough to see the LED alerts on the unit itself because of where the V-1 is located. Those LEDs give you the location of the radar (ahead, off to the side or behind) and the strength. This is vital info! The problem is that the V-1 itself is located right above and a little behind the bars. Looking down to see it takes your eyes too far off the road for me to be comfortable. Added to that is that the angle makes the LEDs even harder to see. My fix was to add the Concealed Display which I can put a little farther forward AND angle up. Makes it quicker to see and thus interpret.
Sena SMH10R
Sena SM10
Valentine One
Valentine Remote Audio Adapter
Valentine Concealed Display
Pictures to follow.
steveberde wrote:My question however, is the hard wiring of the detector on a new 1290 SDR - I've had one my 08 SD and my 690 Duke 4 but haven't touched
the wiring on the new bike.
Any wiring tips appreciated and I'll ask at the risk of being slammed - whats the direct way into the wiring harness to hook the telephone
plug wire (also want to wire my soon to arrive heated grips) and where is it located?
steveberde wrote:I've also used speakers in the helmet and they all require hard wiring (at least as of now) no wireless speaker system that I've found that gets wired into a helmet, plus I have one very weak ear
and always wear ear plugs.
Steve
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