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From: eastman@tsbmacgw.nrl.navy.mil
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Remote Control Extender
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Date: 29 Apr 91 17:12:42 GMT
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I live in an apartment with a couple of other guys, and for reasons of safety
to my stereo, I keep it in my room with a set of speakers in the living room.  

What I would like to build is a device that I could point my remote at, that
would have some sort of phototransistor receptor and driver circuitry, which
would then drive an IR emitting diode in the same room as the stereo. 

Does anyone out there have any ideas/comments?  Inparticular what kind of wire
should I use from the receiver to the emitter, what kind of photodiode and IR
emitter should I use, have any articles been written on this, etc...

respond by email or post.

thanks,

Curt Eastman