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Re: IR emitters for Ocelot


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  • Subject: Re: IR emitters for Ocelot
  • From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:30:41 +0000
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Thanks Jim,

I'll let you know after I've had a go a tmaking some...

Paul G.



>From: "Jim" <jim@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] IR emitters for Ocelot
>Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:02:41 -0600
>
>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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