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- From: gsulliva@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Glenn A Sullivan)
- Subject: Re: IR circuit less prone to ambient light
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.074422.21230@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Summary: IR detector to tolerate ambient light
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- Organization: Arizona State University
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 07:44:22 GMT
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- nyarko@ee.ualberta.ca (David Nyarko) writes:........
- > Could I have help (circuit diagrams etc.) for an Infra-Red
- > (IR) transmitter/receiver with a {HIGH} tolerance to ambient light.
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- The ambient light you wish to tolerate is:
- (1) SUNLIGHT (2) 60 cycles (3) harmonics of 60 cycles
- and you need to DETECT/MEASURE a weak IR signal in the presence of 1/2/3.
- Apply some servoing (negative feedback) to the base of the phototransistor,
- to control the operating point in the presence of changes in sunlight, etc.
- And you might use that servoing to cancel out MOST of the 60 cycle energy.
- And modulate your IR source, at a high rate, that is not an obvious harmonic
- of 60Hz (that is, 120/180/240 Hz are right out). Try 3,141.5926535 Hz instead.
- The challenge is applying bias to the phototransistor without draining away
- the photon-induced current. And without adding lots of noise.
- Allen Sullivan
- Examining how design is a process of discovery.
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