Thread: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900
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2013-09-08 , 14:54
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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
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I should mention that while IrDA uses the same wavelength as "Commercial IR" (what remote controls use), it runs at a much higher speed and a much lower power level.
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Also, I'm not entirely sure there's enough room in the existing case to fit both an IR receiver LED and an IR transmitter LED (at least for CIR)...

EDIT: I should mention, if you're taking requests , it'd be nice to have an LED that provides a little more output power.
CIR and IrDA don't usually use same wavelength. IrDA is in the 850-900nm range while CIR often using >900nm. Nevertheless each one works with the wavelength of the other one, just with reduced sensitivity resulting from the wrong "color".
The recommendation would be to use CIR wavelength strong IR-LED for TX while using IrDA wavelength for RX.
The space in N900 case should suffice to implement that, so we will do it.

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