Does your hard-wired V1 radar detector get REALLY hot?

[brian5]

I've had the V1 hard-wired for about 6 months now and it's appeared to work just fine. Last week, I went on a road-trip (400+ miles) and I found that it got REALLY hot. It seems that if it was in a plastic case, it would have melted!

Normally I wouldn't touch the V1 while I'm driving as I have a concealed display. The reason that I noticed this overheating was the hot air that I was in feeling in the upper area of the car with the air conditioner on. When I touched the V1, it was too hot to hold. Now that I'm aware of this "issue", by touching it, I can feel that it starts warming up after just a few minutes and continues to get hotter and hotter.

I spoke to V1 support today. The tech told me that his V1 gets pretty hot in the summer too and the fuse should go if there was a short-circuit of any sort. My V1 still seems to be operating perfectly. It just seems to be a bit dangerous right now.

Can anyone confirm that theirs get really hot too?