Every fluorescent lamp puts out IR that will be received by all but the most narrow band IR receivers. What happens at the device's end depends on implementation details.
The reddish lenses found on IR products filter out specific frequency ranges and in consumer electronics are usually provided so that sunlight and most fluorescents don't cause excessive noise at the receiver module. The modules themselves are also cast with colored plastics to block out certain frequencies. You can get a ton of information (if you care) from the various Siemens, Vishay (etc) data sheets. First suggestion is to buy a few more CF bulbs from different manufacturers and at different outputs. You will probably find one that doesn't cause a problem. In fact I'm almost sure of it. A question for Sean or someone else at Slim... What IR receiver modules were used in the SB2 and SB3? What frequencies should the exterior lenses of the enclosures be filtering for each? I have CF as the sole lighting source in my living room with the SB3 causing no problems at all. I've done a lot of IR work over the past few years and tested countless IR transmitting and receiving products. Numerous (mainstream) products I've tested are completely unusable in my office test area. The SB3 works fine there. Switching to a different remote would have no effect. The noise produced by the light source would still corrupt the signal. Unfortunately, the protocol being used by Slim (JVC) is basically one that repeats a length sequence continuously during a repeat - fairly easy to corrupt because there's a not-insignificant amount of data to decode/match. If instead the product had used the NEC format it would be a lot easier to keep repeats going and able to throw out interference. Of course with a lot of noise being blasted at the same time it would could still be difficult to decode the initial command (but this might have alleviated Seans concern of dipping or mispointing the remote in normal conditions). I'm also surprised I haven't noticed more people complaining about command collision with JVC DVD players. Unfortunately a number of command codes overlap on device 239 (which Slim is using). Really, a unique device number should have been selected to prevent collisions with already established products. -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com) | 'mira - Personal Control for your Apple Remote' (http://twistedmelon.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36270 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
