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IR extender and 30’ run- MX 800
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| Topic: | IR extender and 30’ run- MX 800 This thread has 6 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Monday December 13, 2004 at 15:07 |
club98 Lurking Member |
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I have a benQ8700 projector for HDTV that is more than 10' away from my stack. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make a 30' run for an IR extender. I have not purchased the MX 800 yet so I'm not married to if if another remote has a better solution.
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| Post 2 made on Monday December 13, 2004 at 20:20 |
AHEM Select Member |
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I've done a similar application where I simply chopped off the end of the emitter and spliced it onto Cat5. I think that the run was around 50 feet and it actually worked just fine.
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| Post 3 made on Monday December 13, 2004 at 21:02 |
pilgram Loyal Member |
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I've gone farther than 50' in the past with no problems. It may have been closer to 100' + !!!
A long, long time ago, "whole house audio" didn't include keypads! Just IR recievers and emitters. Of course, thats basically what todays IR based systems still are. Except now, your programmable remote is mounted to the wall!
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| Post 4 made on Monday December 13, 2004 at 21:14 |
SkyBird Long Time Member |
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I have never paid any attention to if there was a recommended max. length. I've been running them wherever I wanted for years.
I'll use Russound or Xantech. Just depends on which one the wholesaler has in stock at any given moment.
Just run the CAT 5 like AHEM said . splice on.
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| Post 5 made on Monday December 13, 2004 at 23:31 |
djnorm Founding Member |
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Just to be safe, we use 22/4 Shielded Eye wire instead of Cat5, and have run long distances for many years
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| Post 6 made on Tuesday December 14, 2004 at 08:18 |
Springs Super Member |
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If the signal is not getting there on cat-5 start adding more conductors. Speaker wire works too! The things to come up with on the fly.
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| OP | Post 7 made on Tuesday December 14, 2004 at 11:30 |
club98 Lurking Member |
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