On 08/20/03 19:29, NY hifi said...
A simple and inexpensive was to get dry contacts
from IR is using a IR AB switch. about 30 bucks
worth of parts, and it works like a charm.
I'm guessing you are referring to the Radio Schlock item. It is a good antenna A-B switch, and definitely can be used as a dry contact.
And also, unfortunately, responds to older Sony DSS remote controls. About ten of the buttons on the remote for the older full-size Sony DSS receivers will switch this unit to "A" and about ten other buttons will switch it to "B." I think the Sony "50" units are the last ones that will control this.
It's the kind of thing that, if you think about it, we should be running into all the time, but this is the only time I have heard of it aside from a thread somewhere here about Runco projectors and Lexicon units...and that thread was never clarified by the original poster.