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Power up RetroN 3 Wireless Controller Signal. How ?!

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Hello,

 

As you know the RetroN 3 Game System have very bad wireless controller and my question here Is it possible to make the wireless controller signal more power then it is now ?!

 

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    I think you may not like the answer to this question. The original Retron 3 controller is wireless in the same way as your TV remote control is wireless. It communicates with the Retron 3 via infrared and so has to always be in line-of-sight with the front panel of the console. Theoretically you could make a simple IR amplifier circuit because LEDs tend to be able to take way more current than their spec says (as long as you have a low duty cycle signal to it...If the duty cycle of the signal you are sending is 50% then you can push 50% more current than the spec through it).

     

    It all depends on what power is going into it, but doing something as simple as putting a 15 Ohm 1/2 Watt resistor and then upping the current, maybe...
    But it just might be that it has low output LEDS and simply replacing them with high output emitters would give you some range (of course, get the polarity right).

     

    Hopefully though, you are talking about the 2.4 GHz Edition which already has about 40ft of distance...

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    I think you may not like the answer to this question. The original Retron 3 controller is wireless in the same way as your TV remote control is wireless. It communicates with the Retron 3 via infrared and so has to always be in line-of-sight with the front panel of the console. Theoretically you could make a simple IR amplifier circuit because LEDs tend to be able to take way more current than their spec says (as long as you have a low duty cycle signal to it...If the duty cycle of the signal you are sending is 50% then you can push 50% more current than the spec through it).

     

    It all depends on what power is going into it, but doing something as simple as putting a 15 Ohm 1/2 Watt resistor and then upping the current, maybe...
    But it just might be that it has low output LEDS and simply replacing them with high output emitters would give you some range (of course, get the polarity right).

     

    Hopefully though, you are talking about the 2.4 GHz Edition which already has about 40ft of distance...

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