![]() ![]() I have four remotes and four blasters in play right now, and I'm about to expand again. I've got much more expensive remotes that I don't use, because The URCs are so reliable. I have to say however that the little box in question is pretty insensitive, even to its own remote. ![]() I tried bouncing off the screen in front of the projector, and it didn't work. This was the one time that a wall bounce wouldn't do the job. The sensor in the box is recessed, so I needed to get IR from the front of the room. The box is only controllable by an IR remote. The projector has a box that moves a lens back and forth in front of the projector. I have another sitting under the screen facing back toward the projector. I have one on the equipment rack behind the curtain. I should explain why I needed two PowerBlasters for the upstairs theater. If it did, I'd have another conflict like that one. I'm happy to say that the IR will not go through curtains. Now the recorded Soaps stay downstairs where they belong. That way, they would be out of commission until I turned on the receiver, which I normally do manually anyway. For awhile, I couldn't figure out why All My Children kept showing up on recorded shows upstairs! My solution to this was to plug the two PowerBlasters upstairs into a switched outlet on the receiver. ![]() ![]() My bride was turning on and programing the cable DVR box downstairs, and the PowerBlaster upstairs was doing the same to the box upstairs. I've got a home theater upstairs and a regular flat-panel in the den, and both are set up with URC RF remotes. I've had situations in which these things were too good. It will normally work within a closet or cabinet or enclosed part of an entertainment center or with one bounce off a wall without a problem. I'm not saying a single PowerBlaster is going to completely flood a large room or bounce IR around corners or whatever. Talk about ease of installation! All you do is plug these things in and they start working. I've had it bouncing off glass, a curtain, a door, and even a wall that's 14 feet across a room. In all but one case, I could just put a PowerBlaster BESIDE the equipment, and it would generate enough IR to bounce off virtually anything in front of the equipment and do its job. The good news is that I've been using PowerBlasters for years and never had to do that. Of course, if you do that, the remote that came with your equipment will be blocked. You might be scared off by the one reviewer who said he taped the little plug-in flashers onto his equipment items' IR windows. It also has these little plug in flashers that you can tape to your equipment. It blasts out a very strong, very wide beam of IR that can bounce around and operate your IR-controllable equipment. I'm sure you understand that the way these things work is that the RF10, 20 or 30 remote sends an RF signal that is picked up by the PowerBlaster. ![]()
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