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Old 24-03-2006, 20:50   #1
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Energy saving bulbs and remote.
I know these play hell with NTL remotes, and right now mine is almost usless even within a foot of the box, anyone got any tips apart from turning the light off everytime I want to change station
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Old 24-03-2006, 21:02   #2
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Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
Change the light bulb.
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Old 24-03-2006, 21:26   #3
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Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
I've found that after about an hour, the remote starts working a little better, but to be honest, I did what SLM said and changed the bulb...
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Old 24-03-2006, 23:36   #4
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Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
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I've found that after about an hour, the remote starts working a little better, but to be honest, I did what SLM said and changed the bulb...
This is because as you have these bulbs switched on longer they warm up and the frequency of the light generated changes so that it doesn't produce as much Infra-Red light at the "wrong" frequency any more.
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Old 25-03-2006, 01:15   #5
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Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
Try a different make of bulb - the frequency of these is not tightly controlled, and will vary between units of the same type, brands, age and temperature.
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Old 25-03-2006, 06:21   #6
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Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
My energy saving bulbs don't intefere with any of my remotes.
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Old 25-03-2006, 07:40   #7
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Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
Ok cheers, I'll try a diff brand and if that don't help then I'll have to go back to normal blulb.
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Ok cheers, I'll try a diff brand and if that don't help then I'll have to go back to normal blulb.
think its bad news when we all talk about saving energy, but yet silly things likeremotes not working has to stop this
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Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
We use LED bulbs in our house and they dont interefere, although they are an expensive bulb if you go for the 2Watt version.
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Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
No interference here either. However, this whole notion totally astounds me in the same way that ntl won't work with certain types of television. Not exactly encouraging is it.
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Old 27-03-2006, 06:53   #11
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Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
Just a quick update, I changed it for another make bulb I had in the kitchen, and since then I have had no problems.
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Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
Can we name brands of bulbs that don't appear to cause this? just in case we can't, there's a BIG chain of Superstores, probably one of the biggest if not the biggest who's own brand bulbs haven't caused this problem for me, every little helps eh?
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Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
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I know these play hell with NTL remotes, and right now mine is almost usless even within a foot of the box, anyone got any tips apart from turning the light off everytime I want to change station
Wring them up and get a new one!
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Old 27-03-2006, 15:44   #14
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Re: Energy saving bulbs and remote.
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Can we name brands of bulbs that don't appear to cause this? just in case we can't, there's a BIG chain of Superstores, probably one of the biggest if not the biggest who's own brand bulbs haven't caused this problem for me, every little helps eh?
The one that works fine has House & Home written on it, god knows what shop it came from though.
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Old 27-03-2006, 21:07   #15
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No interference here either. However, this whole notion totally astounds me in the same way that ntl won't work with certain types of television. Not exactly encouraging is it.
I do not think you can blame ntl re this as IR technology has been around a hell of a lot longer than energy saving bulbs and lcd/plasma tvs.
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