reyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (11/06/90)
I'm making a shot in the dark here, hoping someone will know what I'm talking about. I have a universal remote control for ... well, a lot! One day, it stopped working (after being dropped on the floor)! Being an amateur electronics buff (read: guy who likes to look at the guts of things), I took it apart and came up with the hypothesis that it could be the tran- mitters, which I assume are the things that look like LEDs at the front of the remote. (they don't look exactly like LEDs, i mean, same shape, but there are concave dishes inside). Any idea what these are? Can I find them anywhere or are they some special parts valued at $800 each? (my luck) It would be nice to get this $100 remote working again... Thanks for any and all the help you can give! (Probably be best to Email me: REYY@Vax5.cit.cornell.edu) David Rowell REYY@Vax5.cit.cornell.edu (internet)
ifaq570@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (allen kitchen) (11/07/90)
Gee... I've never heard of an LED (which is what those things at the front of your remote are ) being broken in a fall, much less all of them at once. From what you've described I would try to find some broken solder joints or broken wires. The parts in most solid state devices are not too easy to break with simple g forces. Typically the weakest point on these remotes is the connections from the board to the battery... concentrate on that and you will probably be surprised. Disclaimer... " Who... Me??? " allen
berger@atropa (Dire Wolf) (11/14/90)
I would not suspect the infrared emitters as the cause of your problem. It's not likely that both of them would be damaged, and since the remote control doesn't work at all, it is more likely something else. -- Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu