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IR mini emitters and Sky+ box


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: IR mini emitters and Sky+ box
  • From: "Paul Gale" <p-gale@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:02:04 -0000
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

I'm having a few troubles with controlling my Sky+ box (located in
Node0). I've got a couple of different makes of mini emitters including
some Xantech 283M mouse emitters. It seems that the transmitted IR
signal is too strong for the Sky+ box as it sometimes only recognises 1
out of 10 or so button presses when the emitter is directly over the IR
receive window. Moving the emitter about 15cm away improves the
recognition a lot.

I can't permanently position the emitter at this distance as the box is
mounted in a 19" rack.

Any thoughts on cutting the strength of the signal (using a resistor,
coloured film, different emitter etc)?

Thanks,

Paul.




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