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another ir interference question...
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Post 1 made on Monday March 3, 2003 at 10:16
asinsh
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I already posted this in the one-for-all forum, but I figured I'd post it here as well.

I had an incredibly difficult time getting my xantech ir repeater system to work well with my ir remote (RS 15-2116), even though the remote's signal is quite strong (the remote works really well when pointed at the equipment instead of when using the repeaters). I guess the combination of interference from my plasma monitor and other light sources in the room were just too much for it. But I finally got it to work dependibly by using the masking tape trick others have reported here -- a piece of translucent maskng tape (in my case, regular tan masking tape) got it to the point where it would work every time.

Now I'm trying to move up to an rf remote - an RS 15-2117. The remote comes with an rf receiver that receives the rf signal and repeats it in ir form either directly from an emitter built into the receiver or indirectly over a remote emitter plugged in by a mini plug to the ir receiver. This works, but I'm back to square one and can't get it to work reliably. No matter what I do, I can't get the rf receiver to dependibly work the ir receiver (xantech) so that I can consistently control my components.

So, here's my question: can I bypass the problem altogether by somehow plugging my ir emitter bugs (5 of them) into the micro plug output of the 2117's rf receiver?

I already tried plugging a micro plug in there and feeding the output directly into one of my IR emitters but it didn't work well. Is there some trick to this? Alternatively, is there some way that I should be wiring the micro plug output directly into my xantech receiver block?

Alan
Post 2 made on Tuesday March 4, 2003 at 03:05
Ernie Bornn-Gilman
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If you cannot run one IR directly out of the 2117's micro plug 9do you mean mini plug? micros are seldom used with IR stuff), then you cannot make several of them work out of it.

Maybe your problem is that the IR output of the 2117 is actually too hot for the Xantech or its IRs, so either the Xantech receiver is overloading, or the components themselves may be overloading. I once had the combination of a Sony DSS and a Lexicon remote where I had to point the Lexicon at least 45 degrees away from the DSS to make it work reliably!

Try separating the rf receiver from the Xantech sensor. Try the tape trick again. Try not pointing the remotes directly at the rf device's pickup and see if reliability goes up.

Get a video camera, which can see IR, and see if you can tell anything about how bright the IR is from the factory remotes and from different stages of this thing.

Get a Palm Pilot and the graphing freeware that gives you a moving graph of IR received by the Palm Pilot.

Or, since the IR works and most RF repeaters seem to slow down response of the system, consider that RF might not be an upgrade.

Ernie
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