Re: TI-H: IR Led problems

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: IR Led problems
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 18:35:24 -0700
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Have you tried checking the schemaitc?

>I hapened to be near Radio $hack today, so i decided i'd walk in and see
>what overpriced junk i could buy today...for $2.00 i found an IR
>LED/Detector pair. I thought "Oh, cool...i can buy one of these and see if i
>can get a simple IR circuit working. So, i take em home, and start using my
>trusty alligator clips to hook em up. Unfortunately, i've run into a bit of
>a problem. No matter how i hook up the detector, i either always get current
>passing through, or i never get current passing through. It never seems to
>be "Only when i'm shining my little IR Led on you that i get light. I'm
>thinking it's probably the detector that's dead, but i can't be sure. I'm
>slightly angered by this :>
>
>- Jon Olson
>
>--
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