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From: pcats@cryton.demon.co.uk (Patrick Arnold)
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Subject: Re: IR receivers 
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In article <1994Jan12.112948.14172@news.cs.indiana.edu> cyliax@cs.indiana.edu writes:

>I would be interested in finding out what kind of free-space IR link
>performance people out there are measuring. I'm mostly interested in
>'high-speed' links but we also have an application here that would use
>'simple' (2 channel at low-bandwidth) over IR.

A company here in the UK called Maplin Electronics market a kit for a mono PAL
video link that uses IR leds and gives a range of 100m+. It uses 6" square
fresnel lenses on both transmitter and receiver, and has a bandwidth of about
1.5MHz.

Patrick.

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