[mythtv-users] Where to buy CommandIR ?

William Powers wepprop at gmail.com
Mon Aug 2 21:32:08 UTC 2010


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Gert van der Knokke <gertk at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Chris Hoff schreef:
> If these emitters are simple IR LED's why not attenuate the current through
> them by means of a simple resistor. Just keep increasing the value up to the
> point the receiver stops responding then use a resistor value slightly less
> than this. You could even use a adjustable resistor in the range from 1 to
> 10 k or so.

I addition to many methods of optical attenuation (some with at least
partial success), I also tried electrical attenuation with six series
resistance values:  100, 1k, 2.2k, 4.7k, 10k and 47k ohms.  None of
these result in any improvement.


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