Unmodulated IR system will not work with sunlight since the sun will flood the IR receiver. Also, my cheap IR toy helicopter (AirHogs) is uncontrollable outside with sun. It reponds to only 20% of commands, usually right after you hit something. Also, my cheap AirHogs heli is on its "Channel A", and my son inlaw's AirHogs heli is on "Channel B", but they interfere with each other and are uncontrollable together. On the toy helis we're relying on getting a useful signal to the helicopter, and the two IR transmitters interfere with each other. However, on a model tank IR gun you are mostly going for Hit or No Hit, so the interference will not matter much. One Fire command may hit more than one tank, and that's hard to do with paintballs. Bill
--- On Tue, 5/1/12, Frank Pittelli <[email protected]> wrote: From: Frank Pittelli <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TANKS] Re: Education + Work = Tanks To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 9:15 PM Which begs the question: how well will an inexpensive IR system work at a reasonable tank range in bright sunlight? On 5/1/2012 4:25 PM, Jason wrote: > IR that you'd be using is on order of a TV remote... Perfectly harmless -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat
