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Re: IR emitters for Ocelot



Great... I pay about $7 US so if I can help, let me know
I can send as used goods so it would be postage mainly

Cheers,

Jim


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] IR emitters for Ocelot


> Hi Jim!
>
> No worries about the emitters - I imagine it would probably cost more
to
> send some over the pond than it would for me to pay the (vastly
inflated)
> prices in the UK. The current price here for a single emitter frim
Lets
> Automate is £11.16 (and I will need a few of them!)
>
> I'm sure I *must* be able to do it cheaper, and I'm sure it must be
> something I could easily DIY... - if it really is as simple as
soldering
an
> IR LED to a bit of 2-core wire and the other end to a 2.5mm mono jack
plug,
> then I could certainly manage that...
>
> I just need a bit of advice about the choice of parts, but there are
plenty
> of people here in UKHA who do a fair bit with DIY LED stuff, so I'm
sure
> such advice will be readily available and rapidly forthcoming....
(hint
> hint) ;-)
>
> Cue Keith "the Guru" Doxey, and Ian "IR Extender"
Bird....
>
> Cheers.
>
> Paul G.
>
>
> >From: "Jim" <jim@xxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: [ukha_d] IR emitters for Ocelot
> >Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:24:33 -0600
> >
> >Yes all emitters are interchangable
> >
> >The problem exists with an IR receiver. Xantech is 12 volt and
Ocelot is
5
> >volt
> >
> >I forgot I was suppose to send you one..:-)  What is the cost on
Lets
> >Automate
> >
> >Jim
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
> >To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 10:09 AM
> >Subject: [ukha_d] IR emitters for Ocelot
> >
> >
> > > Does anyone know if the:
> > >
> > > "Xantech 283M Single "Blink" emitter
10063"
> > >
> > > as sold on Lets Automate will work correctly (and reliably!)
connected
> > > *directly* to a SECU16IR module with an Ocelot?
> > >
> > > I got my SECU16IR the other day, and I suppose I really
shouldn't be
> > > surprised at this any more, but even this device is supplied
without
one
> > > single emitter in the box...
> > >
> > > (I say "even this" 'cos I was surprised/annoyed
that the Ocelot itself
> >is
> > > supplied without an emitter, but I *really* would have
thought a
device
> > > designed purely and simply for emitting IR would have at
least one
> >emitter
> > > in the box!!)
> > >
> > > You'd think, wouldn't you, that for the price that these
controllers
> >cost,
> > > it would hardly kill them to bung in a 50p IR emitter as
part of the
> > > standard package contents?
> > >
> > > ... I'll get of me soapbox now....
> > >
> > > Paul G.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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