HOW-TO Add an Addtional IR Reciever to FIRST IR Board

[Uberbots]

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

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 (=