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- From: ah335@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Television remote control units (the assasination thereof)
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 22:04:45 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov11.140907.21522@thinkage.on.ca> <1992Nov10.175119.14424@bnr.ca>
- Reply-To: ah335@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Banks)
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- In a previous article, kgdykes@thinkage.on.ca (Ken Dykes) says:
-
- >do parts "burn out" in remotes?
- >
- >every couple years or so, the remote will spontaneously die.
- >not battery. not crud build up on sender/receiving units. dead. kaput.
- >
- >since it's rented from the cable company, i simply take the remote part
- >in, and they give me another one.
- >
- >however, in the last year i picked up an old vcr which uses a Zenith
- >remote that looks the same (a few more buttons for vcr controlling :-)
- >
- >a week ago, BOTH died at the same time. i used both about 10 minutes
- >earlier, no problem. i go back to them and neither work.
- >
- >well, the cable company replaced the converter remote, but i'm stuck
- >with a dead vcr Zenith remote.
- >i'll probably buy a low cost "universal" with Zenith preprogrammed into
- >it. but...
- >i'm curious, what is the weakness. what dies? is it fairly easy to fix
- >perhaps (replace leds?).
- >do spontaneous static discharges from sitting on the couch material or
- >carpet floor do them in or something?
- >even if i buy a universal, this is starting to bug me. am i somehow
- >assasinating the things? i hate mysteries.
-
- We had a month of remote control problems caused by three different
- things. 1, the batteries went dead, this really isn't a problem.
- 2, the cable co. did not give us "remote access" on our cable box.
- Here in Cleveland, North Coast Cable charges $1.00 per month extra
- for use of a remote control. And 3, the remote signal receiver of
- some part of the circuit it is hooked up to went bad and they
- came and changed our box. Yes we really did have all this trouble
- with the same remote within a month.
-