Thanks for the tip about the charger voltage; you're right, it shows faintly embossed just next to the plug; 5 volts.

My equipment is;
Marantz SR750 amplifier
Sharp LC 37HV4U tv
Bell Expressvu 5900 and 6000 Satellite receivers (I don't know who actually makes them, and by the way I've had no luck trying to get or learn their IR codes)
LG LRA 536 DVD player/recorder
Sony SLV N80 VCR

The MX3000 has now worked several times; I haven't used the euipment much in the last day. I don't know how long it will last and I sure don't know why it didn't charge up on one plug and does (so far) on another with the same voltage. It might be that the first plug was after two surge protectors in series (because of how I've had to hook up all the equipment). But the final voltage is the same in both cases: 125 volts.

Thanks all for your interest and help.

Roman

I did the old "hold it up to a camera to check the IR" trick, and sure enough, it is barely lighting up. Used a few other remotes for comparison and they were all bright and lit up normal. So it eithe ris a power thing, or two in a row have burnt out the IR somehow.

What is the "old hold it up to the camera trick"?

The "camera trick" is a way to see the actual IR output. Basically, you use a digital camera (any kind, including those in cell phones) and look on the LCD screen so you can see the IR, which is not visible to the naked eye. Each time you press a button on the remote, you will see the IR outputs light up on the camera's LCD screen.



Thank you,
Damon DG
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For any body who cares, at last the root of my problems with the MX300 's seems to have been found. The dealer has now informed me that he has had several cases where the charge indicator says the battery is charged but it's not really. So you can have a bad battery and not know it. He's sent me a new one and so far so good; it works fine. Strange that he didn't try another battery when I sent him back the first "failed" unit. But I'm glad the problem seems to be solved. If this turns out not to be the case, I'll let you all know.

In the meantime, thanks for all the help. Much appreciated.

Roman Kroitor

And as an added note.......
I too am now having the same problem!

I did the old "hold it up to a camera to check the IR" trick, and sure enough, it didn't light up. Any advise???

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Wondering if a battery problem may be my issue.... My remote seems to have a ghost in it... At odd time, the MX3000 simply wakes up and a couple of the buttons get pushed... Specifically, I have the MX 3000 controlling the lights in my master bedroom... At 4AM, my wife woke up to find the lights on.... She turned them off via the MX 3000.... A couple of minutes later, the MX 3000 woke up and Scence 4 on the light menu indicated that it was pushed and the lights came back on... Nobody touched it.... Now, I would like to believe in the ghost theory, however, I am a reasonable man and am wondering if it could be a battery issue that is screwing up the program... I reset the remote back to factory defaults and re-downloaded the program.... It still happened.... (BTW, the program had been working fine for more than a year and a half prior to this... ) Thoughts?