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Topic: | Two ports, one emitter This thread has 26 replies. Displaying posts 1 through 15. |
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Post 1 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 04:03 |
tweetymp4 Select Member |
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I need to use one mouse emitter for two ports on an MFR-300. The ports will be routed, and will only blast a signal during macros. These macros will only allow one port to fire at a time
so say ports one and two are used in a macro. The macro string would be port one blast, wait .5 sec, blast port 2, wait .5 seconds, blast port one.......etc. etc.
I imagine that simply wiring the ports in parallel would be fine. At least I don't think anything would blow up???? Is there some reisiter, diode, or other magical device sold by Radio Shack that might work?
You should see me play with house current (yuck yuck)
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I'm Not an engineer, but I play one on TV. My handle is Tweety but I have nothing to do with the organization of similar name. I just had a really big head as a child so folks called me tweety bird. |
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Post 2 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 09:02 |
Why would you need two ports to control one piece of gear? If you send voltage out of one port in parallel with another then you're technically sending voltage INTO the output of the other port. Also the current will take the path of least resistance, so the output of your mouse emitter may be diminished or non-existant (we observed this when using one flasher from a Crestron processor as well as from an MX-250). With the MRF-300 i dont know if this would be the case, but if you can redesign so as to not need two ports i'd do that for reliability sake.
RobZ
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Post 3 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 09:15 |
oex Super Member |
Joined: Posts: | April 2004 4,177 |
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I must say - this is a very bizarre concept. Why would you need 2 ports for 1 device???
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Post 4 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 09:21 |
ejfiii Select Member |
Joined: Posts: | July 2003 2,021 |
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Why not just use two mouse emitters - one from each port. Then just stick them both to the front of the machine.
Or when you create devices in the MX Editor, just create another device with the codes you need and assign that to the second blaster.
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Post 5 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 09:37 |
deniz13 Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | December 2004 298 |
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JUST USE A DUAL EMITTER ON ONE PORT. OR WIRE TWO EMITTERS IN SERIES. LET US KNOW WHAT YOU DO AND HOW IT TURNS OUT.
LATER
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Deniz Kose
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Post 6 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 10:46 |
tippy-tie Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | July 2004 479 |
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If you must do it this way, use this method.
xantach ir block, use a plug to plug STEREO jack from one port to the rcvr in jack, and cut the lead that has 12v.
take an mrf-300 emitter to plug into the other output, cut the mouse off, strip the wires, and hook up to grnd, and ir of the phoenix connector of the xantech connincting block. plug an emitter into the connecting block output, put it on your device.
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Post 7 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 11:01 |
Ted Wetzel Founding Member |
Joined: Posts: | November 2001 879 |
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This just doesn't make any sense. How about a few more details?
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Post 8 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 12:25 |
dinom Active Member |
Joined: Posts: | February 2004 643 |
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Post 9 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 12:28 |
chicagoinstaller Advanced Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2004 993 |
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What he's implying is taking the xantech ir block and feeding one output from the mrf-300 into the 1/8 jack input as one Ir sensor input and taking another mouse emitter or just an old 1/8 jack with a lead of wire (probably cut from an old emitter or from a 1/8 jack to 1/8 jack connector) and feeding from another output of the mrf-300 into the other ir receiver on the xantech....thus feeding both outputs of the mrf-300 into one receiver to keep the voltage seperated ....
This way requires an extra piece of equipment and yet keeps talkback from leaving one port on the mrf 300 to the other port....
Its like a two way splitter/combiner to merge the two ports.
Good luck
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Post 10 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 12:35 |
dinom Active Member |
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Chicagoinstaller, I think Ted was questioning the original poster's intent, and not questioning the solution that tippie-tie proposed.
Of course, I still think the solution I supplied would be the cheapest/easiest :-)
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OP | Post 11 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 14:20 |
tweetymp4 Select Member |
Joined: Posts: | March 2003 2,140 |
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I wish I could elaborate more on the use but it is an "intellectual property" thing within my corporation so I can not divulge the actual use....The speakercraft item is the perfect solution....I just need to know what kind of diodeing is inside. As it is only one part that will be incorporated in an overall system.
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I'm Not an engineer, but I play one on TV. My handle is Tweety but I have nothing to do with the organization of similar name. I just had a really big head as a child so folks called me tweety bird. |
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Post 12 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 14:36 |
Fred Harding Super Member |
Joined: Posts: | October 2001 3,461 |
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Xantech 283TP emitter
Just found it in the manual for the BXaudio4X4 system
single emitter, two plugs
Great for having two systems and one source....
No idea about price yet
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Post 13 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 15:03 |
Glackowitz RC Moderator |
Joined: Posts: | May 2002 3,793 |
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Elan Makes one as well the IR2041 dual tip/single emitter
it runs about $14-$15 or less
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Post 14 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 15:24 |
Fred Harding Super Member |
Joined: Posts: | October 2001 3,461 |
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Hmm. Xantech and Elan are owned by the same parent.
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Post 15 made on Friday June 10, 2005 at 15:30 |
tippy-tie Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | July 2004 479 |
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you also could put some diodes in line
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