candles instead of sensor bar...

orangefish7 · 02-10-2007, 01:20 AM

i did the trick where u replace the sensor bar with 2 xandles and it works... but how

must be something with the infrared light fire gives off

anyone know??

spicka · 02-10-2007, 01:42 AM

i do live under a rock yes

csiguy4u · 02-10-2007, 02:24 AM

dude. . .that is soooo 2006. Where have you been?

Dallan · 02-10-2007, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by orangefish7

must be something with the infrared light fire gives off

That's exactly it

Fire gives off infra-red light, just like the sensor bar, it's just brighter. The sensor bar has 2 IR LED's in it, and the Wii calculates where you are in space using triangulation (yay trigonometry!). So when you put two candles to either side of your TV, it replicates the 2 sensor bar LED's, just brighter.

So you can play your Wii from further away (also useful if you have a projector instead of a TV).

blueradio · 02-10-2007, 02:34 AM

What do you live under a rock?

The-Monk · 02-10-2007, 11:14 AM

I can see the sale of candles going UP!!!

E-Roc2010 · 02-10-2007, 06:16 PM

I will never put a candle by my TV. It is a 20 in. tv and about a year old.

tank · 02-10-2007, 08:51 PM

It's actually kinda funny how most of the light energy emitted from a candle is below the visable spectrum. Seems kinda wasteful, all that energy and more than half of it you can't even see.

Something about a side effect of the Carbon atoms being energized to incandescence.

gamechaser001 · 02-10-2007, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Dallan

That's exactly it

Fire gives off infra-red light, just like the sensor bar, it's just brighter. The sensor bar has 2 IR LED's in it, and the Wii calculates where you are in space using triangulation (yay trigonometry!). So when you put two candles to either side of your TV, it replicates the 2 sensor bar LED's, just brighter.

So you can play your Wii from further away (also useful if you have a projector instead of a TV).

The reason candles work is not because they produce infra-red light, because they don't, infrared light is a wavelength of light that is invisable to the naked eye, if you look at a flame, you can see the flame and it produces visable light, the IR reciever in the Wii-mote can pick up any type of light, it can be a series of two candles, lamps, can lights, anything that produces light that you can get two sources of, When i got my Wii, I only used my sensor bar for a short time, then I used that lamps and can lights in my house, so if you see a source of light, you should be a ble to use it as a sensor bar, that's why of you have sunlight in a room, your Wii-mote won't focus as well and go crasy around the screen

Axtlar · 02-10-2007, 10:15 PM

who asked how fire gives infrared light? did you ever go to school? and if you did, what did they teach you there? come on people! that's logical information..I think I'm gonna cry