[slinkelist] Strange troubles with IR

[Jay Pfaffman]

I don't think that's going to help me as the IR noise seems to be
coming from the Slinke.  I probably need to do one more test with all
receivers unplugged to make sure, but it appears that once my slinke
receives any IR it starts squirting it incessantly.  Once it's done
that, it won't pass even Slink loop tests until the slinke's been
power cycled.  

It looks like I'll need to contact Nirvis on this one.

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:47:49 -0000, "Thomas W. Humphrey" <TWHumphrey@fuse.net> said:

> I had a problem similar to this and found that the source was infrared noise
> beng produced by one of my cheaper TV's, going into the remote IR receiver
> and bombarding the slnike with garbage IR.  I solved the problem by simply
> moving the remote IR receiver away from the front of the TV where the IR
> noise was created.

> Hope this helps.

> Tom Humphrey
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay Pfaffman" <pfaffman@relaxpc.com>
> To: "SlinkE List" <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 6:57 PM
> Subject: [slinkelist] Strange troubles with IR


>> I suspect that this is a hardware problem, but it could prove useful
>> for others on the list.
>> 
>> My slinke's been working fine for a couple years now (or is it
>> three?).  A couple days ago it started acting up.  I haven't
>> completely diagnosed it but it looks like the first time IR signals
>> are retransmitted (I've got receivers in several rooms and a single
>> transmitter in my wiring closet) it just keeps squirting out IR until
>> I power-cycle the slinke (this is evidenced by the light staying
>> orange and no components being able to receive IR signals while in
>> view of the IR transmitter).
>> 
>> Having CDJ send IR signals seems to work fine (until I've tried to
>> have it retransmit, though I haven't triple-checked this hypothesis),
>> but I can no longer control my components the system via IR.  THE
>> HORROR!
>> 
>> Could I have misconfigured something (I have edited my map file
>> recently) or is it likely that either the transmitter or the slinke is
>> broken in some way?  Is there some double-secret reset I can or should
>> do?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
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