[mythtv-users] I've finished my serial port IR receiver!

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Tue Apr 4 17:02:34 UTC 2006


On Apr 4, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Scott Alfter wrote:

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> Brian Wood wrote:
>> On Apr 3, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:
>>>>> I think it's rather cute. :)
>>>>
>>>> I would have used a black Ty-Wrap for better color coordination.
>>>
>>> Now that's cruel :)
>>
>> An old boss of mine at WWOR *insisted* that we use only black ties,
>> because they held up better under UV. Of what possible consequence
>> that might be in an inside room with no windows I never did figure  
>> out.
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> Fluorescent lighting spits out UV.  Whether it produces enough to  
> cause white
> zipties to degrade significantly more rapidly than black is up for  
> debate, but
> your boss might not have been completely out in left field.
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Oh yes he was, these ties were all in closed rack cabinets. He also  
paid a lot of $$$ to have nice Budd blue rack panels ("BY" series) re- 
painted in puke brown.

He was a nut case, but your point is valid.


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