Pleased with a success

And your wallet a little plumper :-)

Well done that man. BTW, no one will ever admit to wetting it, these things do it all by themselves.

Well done.

Er - why do you need one in the first place?

:-)

Mary

Get back in your cave. 8-)

Dogs just look innocent and cats change the subject...

Geo

You can also test a remote control by tuning a radio off-station (AM is best) and holding the remote near it and listening for the noise. My Sky remote has an amazing range. I can point it up the stairwell to change the channel from downstairs. Whereas my Sony TV remotes are so feeble I have to walk halfway across the room before they work.

Someone has probably dropped it, it can dislodge the LED so most of the output is inside the remote. It happened to one of mine but a quick dismantle and bend the wires had it working as well as before.

I have two Sony TVs and remotes, and both remotes go about 3 metres max.

Quite some time ago, i was asked by my son to find out what was wrong with his car fob. It turned out to be a broken wire, but while I tested that it was emitting a signal, I got howls of protest that I was locking and unlocking his car. The car was at the front of the house and I was at the diagonally opposite corner upstairs. What a range it had, unlike my 2 cars fobs that only work when I get alongside them.

Dave

But the car fob is presumably a radio frequency signal which could go through walls. My Sky remote has a little LED on the end, and I can bounce the signal off several walls or the ceiling to get to the Sky STB. If the couch is in the way it doesn't work, so it can't be a radio signal.