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Leftie
I've been using a 7 watt LED bulb, sold through Boston Robotics, for
about a month in our TV room lamp. It's worked fine with the slide type
dimmer. Today thought, there was a bizarre occurrence. All of the
universal remotes stopped working properly with the TV and one of the
video recorders (not the same brand as the TV). Some functions wouldn't
work at all, others were sluggish, and some of the TV functions started
to turn on and send commands to the Panasonic HDD recorder. I was
utterly baffled, as a couple of the remotes hadn't even been used that
day until I tested them to see if it was a bad remote. My housemate
wondered if it was radio interference, and I explained that no, the
remotes all use infrared light. Then I looked at the lamp, which is
usually on when we are in the room because the room is dim. I turned the
lamp off, and... all of the remotes started working perfectly again.
The original remotes for the TV and video recorder had never stopped
functioning. My best guess is that the LED started to put out IR in a
band close enough to the remotes that it 'confused' the IR receivers in
the two units that stopped responding properly to the universal remotes.
Has anyone ever seen this before? Needless to say, there is now once
again an incandescent bulb in that lamp...
about a month in our TV room lamp. It's worked fine with the slide type
dimmer. Today thought, there was a bizarre occurrence. All of the
universal remotes stopped working properly with the TV and one of the
video recorders (not the same brand as the TV). Some functions wouldn't
work at all, others were sluggish, and some of the TV functions started
to turn on and send commands to the Panasonic HDD recorder. I was
utterly baffled, as a couple of the remotes hadn't even been used that
day until I tested them to see if it was a bad remote. My housemate
wondered if it was radio interference, and I explained that no, the
remotes all use infrared light. Then I looked at the lamp, which is
usually on when we are in the room because the room is dim. I turned the
lamp off, and... all of the remotes started working perfectly again.
The original remotes for the TV and video recorder had never stopped
functioning. My best guess is that the LED started to put out IR in a
band close enough to the remotes that it 'confused' the IR receivers in
the two units that stopped responding properly to the universal remotes.
Has anyone ever seen this before? Needless to say, there is now once
again an incandescent bulb in that lamp...