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My compliments to Reynolds Electronics for an excellent kit. The
Fire-stick kits, (2), that I bought were of the higest quality, very
simple to assemble, and the suckers even worked! Me and a friend were
awe struck at the distance the I-R could be detected. Indoors it even
worked around corners due to reflection from the walls. We were only
using it as a "make/break" project using the VT pin to the STAMP 1,
and haven't figured how to send data between two stamps. Maybe someone
can offer some help.. To see the Fire-Stick go to
http://www.rentron.com ............ ==Mac== AG5F
Fire-stick kits, (2), that I bought were of the higest quality, very
simple to assemble, and the suckers even worked! Me and a friend were
awe struck at the distance the I-R could be detected. Indoors it even
worked around corners due to reflection from the walls. We were only
using it as a "make/break" project using the VT pin to the STAMP 1,
and haven't figured how to send data between two stamps. Maybe someone
can offer some help.. To see the Fire-Stick go to
http://www.rentron.com ............ ==Mac== AG5F
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the burst mode. You can lower any of the 4 data lines, resulting in four
possible control commands. But if I remember correctly, I could also lower
1 to 4 pins in any combination, which would yield 15 possible commands, (the
all 0 command cannot be used because at least 1 pin must be lowered to
xmit). Furthermore, even though the data sheet doesn't mention it, I
suspect that different addresses can be used on 2 tx/rx sets by grounding
combinations of the open address lines on the Holtek coders/decoders. I
want to build a battery operated remote for our model RR with the Firestick
when I get to it.
Be careful running it for long pulses, like hundreds of ms. Read Bruce's
data sheet carefully on this point. It appears that many long transmissions
will cook R1, and/or suck down a 9V battery in no time.
Good luck,
Ray McArthur
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From: Robert McAtee <w5tnj@c...>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 6:11 PM
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> My compliments to Reynolds Electronics for an excellent kit. The
> Fire-stick kits, (2), that I bought were of the higest quality, very
> simple to assemble, and the suckers even worked! Me and a friend were
> awe struck at the distance the I-R could be detected. Indoors it even
> worked around corners due to reflection from the walls. We were only
> using it as a "make/break" project using the VT pin to the STAMP 1,
> and haven't figured how to send data between two stamps. Maybe someone
> can offer some help.. To see the Fire-Stick go to
> http://www.rentron.com ............ ==Mac== AG5F
>
>
>
> eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/basicstamps
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data. I would like to convert a analog voltage and send it to the receiver.
Thanks
Tom
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My compliments to Reynolds Electronics for an excellent kit. The
Fire-stick kits, (2), that I bought were of the higest quality, very
simple to assemble, and the suckers even worked! Me and a friend were
awe struck at the distance the I-R could be detected. Indoors it even
worked around corners due to reflection from the walls. We were only
using it as a "make/break" project using the VT pin to the STAMP 1,
and haven't figured how to send data between two stamps. Maybe someone
can offer some help.. To see the Fire-Stick go to
http://www.rentron.com ............ ==Mac== AG5F
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