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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Cable Remote Frequencies
Summary: Watching Infrared
Message-ID: <1168@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 89 16:38:01 GMT
References: <15939@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc.
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In article <15939@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Sean_Nolan@mac.dartmouth.edu (Sean P.
Nolan) writes:
>Hey there...
>
Hey yourself.
>But I don't know the whole set of frequencies, and trial-and-error doesn't 
>seem like a pleasant task. Sooo, if anyone out there has a list of standard 

I don't know what the standard pulses are but I did find out something neat
while over a friends house. We were playing with his video camera (RCA brand,
model unknown) when we found out that if you flash an infrared remote control
at the camera, you can *SEE* the pulses on the monitor! Somehow the camera 
shifts the infrared down to the visable spectrum. This may help you out if
you have a camcorder handy. The pulses were fairly slow on the remote we used
so it won't (shouldn't) be to hard to figure out the pattern.

But this 'feature' of video cameras (I am supposing that it works on all
ccd video cameras) opens up new doors, eh? wonder if one could use this to make
a cheapo 'nightscope'.

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