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Originally Posted by dtengineering
We just de-soldered the IR receiver, then re-soldered it to a length of servo cable. Now we have the board able to mount on the robot's electronics board, but the receiver able to go anywhere.
We considered replacing the receiver with a non-38kHz one to reduce interference, but it seemed to make more sense to leave it "standard" so we could co-ordinate our robocoach signals with our alliance partners and get control from both ends of the field.
It may also be possible that a PNA4602M IR receiver could be used if the Vishays were difficult to find. Looking at their datasheets they appear to have many similar characteristics.
Jason
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Yeah thats exactly what we did... now we have an array of 8 receivers (my dad went a little overboard...), and a remote with about 4 emitters... so i think we are set (=