I've an RS 15-2117 8-in-one remote with it's RF base station. It works great save one problem. The place where the equipment to be controlled is a little too noisy, RF-wise, to put the base station right in the cabinet with them. I can put the base station a few feet away (the distance of it's suppled IR emitter cable) and it works fine. However, I'd like to have a little better coverage than that one IR emitter allows. The cabinetry doesn't really allow for placement of the emitter such that it'd cover all of the devices properly. So I'm figuring on adding one or more emitters. I seem to recall this is not just a simple 'split the wiring' situation but needs some arrangement of resistors and such.

Anyone got schematics or tips on doing this properly? Like whose IR emitter buds are the least expensive that are known to work reasonably well? I could make some of my own if needed.

Thanks!

99,

Each "bug" is a fairly low level IR emitter. They're designed to be "taped" over the IR sensor eye of the equipment to be controlled. The BASE has a much stronger IR emitter, designed to send IR some 25 feet (ie. "spray" a bunch of devices similar to what the actual remote would do. The IR will penetrate and work the devices through glass doors, if that's what your cabinet has. If wood (or some other non-glass substance) doors are what you have you'd need to have a "bug" run from the base to each device being controlled. You can get "double-bug" cords. You can also use "Y" adapters to double the emitter plug ins available. A "Y" and 2 double-bug cords will give you 4 "bugs"/devices controlled.

Jim

If you get Y emitter cables, you will need some 1/8 to 3/32 adapters. Because the jack on the back of the RF basestations only take 3/32 plugs.

I'm not entirely sure that an LED circuit will tolerate just hanging more emitters off it without some adjustment in the resitances involved. Just using splitters doesn't seem like the right way to do it.