RE: Radioshack IR receiver module sucks

[Cameron B. P. <ca...@ak...>]

Yeap, I had the power problem and I did notice a small amount of noise in
mode2, but nothing near enough to overrun the serial port. Mine is working
fine now that I have the proper voltage on the detector and I don't have an
IR filter on it either...

I'd be curious to know what you input voltage is too...

Cameron


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lir...@li...
> [mailto:lir...@li...]On Behalf Of Paul Fox
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 7:16 PM
> To: RDS
> Cc: lirc
> Subject: Re: Radioshack IR receiver module sucks
>
>
>  > using. Not to my surprise, the
>  > RadioShack device sucked out bigtime.
>  > The device is like a big radio-station
>  > amplifier. It sends all kinds of noise
>  > up the serial line, in such bulk that I
>  > get buffer overruns when trying to read
>  > from the port.
>
> did you hide the RS receiver behind a red lens of some sort?
>
> did you check the input voltage to the receiver?
>
> i think both of these can affect the device -- i know i got
> a lot of spurious input from it without the lens, and i think
> someone else had trouble with the power.
>
> paul
> =---------------------
>   paul fox, pg...@fo... (arlington, ma, where it's
> 26.4 degrees)