Re: TI-H: IR Led problems

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Subject: Re: TI-H: IR Led problems
From: "Jon Olson" <morph@jmss.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 23:44:42 -0400
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Alright, that makes sense...it's radio shack, what would i expect :> Thanks
for the advice. Also, if that was you who dropped in on my private server
earlier...sorry i wasn't very talkative...was writing peoms #72-79 for a 93
poem english project i have due on firday...phun :>

-- Jon Olson

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Brack <reb@netride.com>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 11:37 PM
Subject: 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
>>
>>