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| Topic: | VL900 Losing range? This thread has 5 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Sunday May 23, 2004 at 11:32 |
JohnnyO Long Time Member |
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My VL900 is about 4 years old. It still works fine, but over the past few months I notice that what used to work at 12 feet now needs to be within about 6 feet. I have recently changed the batteries.
Could my VL900 be dying?
Thanks.
John
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| Post 2 made on Sunday May 23, 2004 at 12:23 |
edmund Elite Member |
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Sure, its been known to happen, they don't last forever. Check out eCost.com, sometimes they have factory refurbished vl900 for $17.
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| Post 3 made on Sunday May 23, 2004 at 18:49 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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Just make sure your original remotes still work as they should - sometimes the IR *receiver* has been known to develop problems (but it is likely just the remote).
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| OP | Post 4 made on Monday May 24, 2004 at 14:40 |
JohnnyO Long Time Member |
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That is a good point. It was the performance of my other remotes that got me to think that the VL900 was going bad. The remote with my DirectTVTivo DVR (which can also control my receiver, to some degree) has about twice the range of the VL900 currently. The VL900 has certainly dropped its range over the years.
Thanks,
John
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| OP | Post 5 made on Tuesday May 25, 2004 at 09:37 |
JohnnyO Long Time Member |
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I bought a replacement VL900 yesterday. It solved the range problem.
I was quite happy that I was able to transfer component settings from one to the other - programming the DirectTivo was quite a chore the first time around and I was glad not to have to repeat that effort.
I was less happy to discover that the macros on the component keys themselves needed to be re-programmed. Thankfully, the last time I did this (16 months ago). I had written down my macros!
John
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| Post 6 made on Tuesday May 25, 2004 at 14:22 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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Glad to hear a new one worked!
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