Re: IR emitters for Ocelot

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim!

No worries about the emitters - I imagine it would probably cost more to
send some over the pond than it would for me to pay the (vastly inflated)
prices in the UK. The current price here for a single emitter frim Lets
Automate is £11.16 (and I will need a few of them!)

I'm sure I *must* be able to do it cheaper, and I'm sure it must be
something I could easily DIY... - if it really is as simple as soldering an
IR LED to a bit of 2-core wire and the other end to a 2.5mm mono jack plug,
then I could certainly manage that...

I just need a bit of advice about the choice of parts, but there are plenty
of people here in UKHA who do a fair bit with DIY LED stuff, so I'm sure
such advice will be readily available and rapidly forthcoming.... (hint
hint) ;-)

Cue Keith "the Guru" Doxey, and Ian "IR Extender"
Bird....

Cheers.

Paul G.


>From: "Jim" <jim@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] IR emitters for Ocelot
>Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:24:33 -0600
>
>Yes all emitters are interchangable
>
>The problem exists with an IR receiver. Xantech is 12 volt and Ocelot
is 5
>volt
>
>I forgot I was suppose to send you one..:-)  What is the cost on Lets
>Automate
>
>Jim
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 10:09 AM
>Subject: [ukha_d] IR emitters for Ocelot
>
>
> > Does anyone know if the:
> >
> > "Xantech 283M Single "Blink" emitter 10063"
> >
> > as sold on Lets Automate will work correctly (and reliably!)
connected
> > *directly* to a SECU16IR module with an Ocelot?
> >
> > I got my SECU16IR the other day, and I suppose I really shouldn't
be
> > surprised at this any more, but even this device is supplied
without one
> > single emitter in the box...
> >
> > (I say "even this" 'cos I was surprised/annoyed that
the Ocelot itself
>is
> > supplied without an emitter, but I *really* would have thought a
device
> > designed purely and simply for emitting IR would have at least
one
>emitter
> > in the box!!)
> >
> > You'd think, wouldn't you, that for the price that these
controllers
>cost,
> > it would hardly kill them to bung in a 50p IR emitter as part of
the
> > standard package contents?
> >
> > ... I'll get of me soapbox now....
> >
> > Paul G.
> >
> >
> >
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