USING THE RRW1
There really is no secret to using the RRW1 system. You primarily want to position the RRW1B in the stereo cabinet or on top of your components so the antenna can stick up. The RRW1A should be placed so that the IR sensor can see your remote control’s IR signal and is in the location you want your remote to work from. Put the receive on top of a book shelf or even between books to hide it. I am sure you will think of something clever.
The real trick is how to get the IR LED on the RRW1B mounted so that all of your components can its relayed signal. The optimum way would be to use a coat hanger to suspend the LED out in front of the components and have it shine back at them. Unfortunately this is quite ugly and could poke out too far to be able to close the doors of a cabinet. If it will be inside of a cabinet, you can conveniently bounce the light off of some small pieces of aluminum foil mounted to the back sides of the doors and reflect the IR down to the compo- nents. With a little work, you could even permanently mount the IR LED on the inside of one of the doors. This configuration might take a bit of wire however in order to discreetly snake the
If you do not have doors to reflect the RRW1B’s emitted IR signal from, try angling the light from above somewhere. This usually works well also. In my case my components are currently sitting on a coffee table behind the couch until we save enough pennies to buy a cabinet. In this case I can actually mount the IR LED in a crack in the couch to aim it at the components. This worked out quite well for me since the IR LED is now all but hidden from view. Hopefully it doesn’t get yanked out the next time I’m scrambling through the cushions for change to tip the pizza delivery guy!
To determine the maximum range of the entire system, add up all of the indi- vidual component ranges that make up the entire system. Your remote’s sig- nal can be picked up by the IR receiver (RRW1A) up to 36 feet away. It can then broadcast that signal with the included antenna more than 100 feet. Now run the IR LED emitter wire from the RRX1B as long as you like up to 300 feet or so (I’ve used up to 750 feet while testing!). The output of the IR LED will then span another 20 feet to give you over 450 feet more of extended range!
Change the stock whip antennas to one of our 433 MHz directional antennas (RMZ# 4004 or LPY41) and you may be able to reach 1/4 mile or more! I can’t imagine a scenario where you would want to do that, but it can be done. Notice how the ground area on the bottom side of the circuit board near the antenna position has been left open for your to attach the ground shield of the coax should you choose this optional configuration.
