Re: TI-H: IR Led problems


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Re: TI-H: IR Led problems




Hey, their matched pairs are bogus!  I ended up buying 5 sets, the IR's
never put out light, and the recievers were all closed!  Once I bought the
pieces separately, it worked fine!  That was about 3 weeks ago, for a school
project.


>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
>
>--
>"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" -- Bill Gates, 1981
>"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM." -- Bill Gates, 1996
>"Nobody will ever need Windows 95." -- logical conclusion
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