RE: IR emitters for Ocelot

["Ian B" <Ian@xxxxxxx>]

Been away on a course all week but I am back now - and to 600 mails!!

>from
wire with the 3.5 mm plug on the end. If buying an IR LED yourself the
wavelength is around 950 and watch the angle. Get wide angle for flooding
(say 50 degrees) and less for more directional work.

If anyone wants RS stuff that will fit in an envelope just ask as I work
about 300 yards from one and have an account. Postage = cost of stamp!!

You will all be pleased to know I have not been wasting my evenings whilst
away this week. I am making excellent progress on my own UIRT (Universal
Infrared Receiver Transmitter) type thing after failing miserably in trying
to interface to the web available one. More news soon. ;-))

p.s. I now know far too much about IR formats and the pitfalls therein :-((

Ian B

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 March 2002 10:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] IR emitters for Ocelot


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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