[Discuss] [possibly OT] Advanced LIRC circuit

[Rick Morris]

What does the circuit diagram look like?

If you just need 12 volts, you can get that from one of the hard drive plugs 
rather than trying to scavenge it from the serial control signals.

On Monday 15 May 2006 09:59, J.Bakshi wrote:
>  Dear list,
>
>  I have been using the home brew lirc receiver circuit with my PI machine
>  without any problem. I have upgraded my machine recently with AMD semapron
>  processor with Asrock mother-board. the mother-board has only one COM
> port. The problem is my  receiver circuit is not working with the new
> mother-board where it is working  perfectly with the mother-board of PI. I
> am using the same HDD hence same 2.6.10  custom build kernel with both
> mother-board & CPU. May be the new mother-board fails to  provide the
> required voltage/current to the receiver circuit. Could any one know any 
> lirc receiver circuit which can work with this type of low voltage/current
> com port ?
>
> I know about http://www.irblaster.info/receiver.html which works down about
> 5.2V with about 15mA output from your serial port. But the site does not
> provide any circuit ; only sell the ready made kit.
>
>  thanks in advanced.
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Rick Morris