Re: cable length with diy serial ir receiver

[Ernst B. <e.b...@xe...>]

On Sonntag, 25. Februar 2007, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> Are there any issues with using a 10m cable with a diy serial ir
> receiver as described at the irc page, http://www.lirc.org/
> receivers.html ? I'm afraid it will pick up some noise.

I think it will work, using a quite long cable myself.

Just make sure to use a shielded cable, Ground on shield, and put the=20
decoupling capacitors (10=B5F and a 100nF ceramic parallel) on the "far" en=
d of=20
the cable, near to the receiver.

/Ernst