Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>I think communicating and documenting stupid mistakes is more important
>than communicating successes, so here I go again.
>
>I use an IR LED and a TSOP receiver to let a board-under-test log
>messages on an LCD without a galvanic connection. The board-under-test
>uses the IR LED to send the message, of course modulated at the
>frequency appropriate to the TSOP receiver (I use 36 KHz). To check
>whether the pic-under-test does indeed 'blink' the IR LED I put a normal
>(red) led parallel (both with their own series resistor).
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A very good method for testing IR, is to use a digital camera.
cheers,
Stef

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