Yes, this is important (and I think it's mentioned in the TNS-BUF manual).  I 
had nasty spurs from an overhead florescent light in one test run until I put 
black tape over the LEDs.

On Aug 19, 2018, 4:38 AM, at 4:38 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>--------
>In message <[email protected]>, Bruce
>Griffit
>hs writes:
>
>>It exploits the fact that for a RED LED at least the difference
>>between the LED forward voltage and the transistor Vbe is ~ 1V and
>>has a fairly low tempco and has low noise (at  least for RED LEDs).
>
>... in darkness.
>
>When using LEDs this sort of way, they should always be totally
>shielded from all external light.
>
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