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From: Charlotte-Fairbanks-Bflo
Today we're going to discuss remote controls? I use mirrors in my motor home to control the satellite television receivers that I have installed out of sight in the bedroom. When I first put the satellite TV in the motor home where to put the receivers was a real problem and it took me about a month to figure out how to get rid of them, but still use them. Proved to myself that I was smarter than the average bear peddling toilet tissue.
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From: Kiowa CO
My old TV in our bedroom had similar problems. It was the on/off button of the remote that got something spilled in it (soda, beer etc) and the button would make contact and turn the unit on or off.
...or is it ghosts????
...or is it ghosts????
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From: Rochdale MA
Jeremy, It may be due to the RF of the remote being close to the band that something else is using. When the remote controls first came out for ceiling fan lights, I had a customer that hers would turn on and off at random times. After countless trips and replacements I finally figured it out. Her neighbor was a police officer. When he would use radio to call the station the fan\ light would come on.
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From: Rio Rico, AZ.
Ok. . question for anybody who has worked on front wheel drive axles. My friends car has a sound like a wheel bearing going out. Going straight it gets louder with speed. . . even louder with a left turn and silent in a right turn. Takes just the slightest right turn input to silence the noise. Being unsure of the design of the bearings, I started with the right for two reasons. Right side hit a guard rail a couple years ago. . . and it sounded like the right side. Bearing seemed fine. checked axle. Seemed fine. after much looking around, I eventually installed a new output shaft, axle, and bearing and it was still making noise with the car jacked up and tires rolling. I have put the original parts back on the right side. I put the new bearing on the left side. . . jacked up left tire, drive. Only the left spinning because the right is on the ground, very noisy. Same with the right jacked. The only thing I havn't done is drive the car on the road with the new bearing on the right side. So aside from doing that. . . what in the differential would cause this noise. . . and have it go completely silent with right steer input while driving down the road? Its an 04 cavalier. (shoot me!)
Timmy
Timmy
Is the bearing a press in type?
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Jeremy, It may be due to the RF of the remote being close to the band that something else is using. When the remote controls first came out for ceiling fan lights, I had a customer that hers would turn on and off at random times. After countless trips and replacements I finally figured it out. Her neighbor was a police officer. When he would use radio to call the station the fan\ light would come on.
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From: Rochdale MA
Thats hilarious. I used to have a radar detector (got it as a present) and that thing would read all different types of signals. It would notice garage door openers, alert systems (sent over radio wave fequencies), remote controls, even remote control cars. Just goes to show a lot of these electronics work off similar bands and can sometimes cross paths.
RF does some funny things. I have had customers put up multiple remote controlled fans in their hame and then wonder why when the hit the remote they all come on. They don't read the instructions and see that you have to set each one to a different frequency.
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It was funny after I fiqured it out. While troubleshooting it, I was going nuts.
RF does some funny things. I have had customers put up multiple remote controlled fans in their hame and then wonder why when the hit the remote they all come on. They don't read the instructions and see that you have to set each one to a different frequency.
RF does some funny things. I have had customers put up multiple remote controlled fans in their hame and then wonder why when the hit the remote they all come on. They don't read the instructions and see that you have to set each one to a different frequency.
I think it would be super cool to wire a house so that all the lights come on when you get home and push the garage door opener. Would something like that be possible?
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From: Rochdale MA
I bet. I hate when I work on something for hours and I can't figure it out. I'm one of those people that when i get super frustrated I fight the urge to cry.
I think it would be super cool to wire a house so that all the lights come on when you get home and push the garage door opener. Would something like that be possible?
I think it would be super cool to wire a house so that all the lights come on when you get home and push the garage door opener. Would something like that be possible?
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From: BLT, MN
I bet. I hate when I work on something for hours and I can't figure it out. I'm one of those people that when i get super frustrated I fight the urge to cry.
I think it would be super cool to wire a house so that all the lights come on when you get home and push the garage door opener. Would something like that be possible?
I think it would be super cool to wire a house so that all the lights come on when you get home and push the garage door opener. Would something like that be possible?
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From: Kiowa CO
It was funny after I fiqured it out. While troubleshooting it, I was going nuts.
RF does some funny things. I have had customers put up multiple remote controlled fans in their hame and then wonder why when the hit the remote they all come on. They don't read the instructions and see that you have to set each one to a different frequency.
RF does some funny things. I have had customers put up multiple remote controlled fans in their hame and then wonder why when the hit the remote they all come on. They don't read the instructions and see that you have to set each one to a different frequency.
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It is possible Lisa. There is some relativly "new" technology called smart house wiring. You can go as simple as you want to super complex. A real simple and not to expensive way is to use is the Leviton Vizia system. You replace the existing switches with the vizia switches and program them with the remote control. You can then turn anything on that is withen the "system" via the remote control. I have one here. I can be up stairs in the master bedroom, point the remote control at the bedroom switch and the flood lights on my shed outside will come on.