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Hot Link Pro Extension Kit
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The Emitter Extension Kit splices into the 6 emitter ribbon cable to extend all 6 emitters with just two wires or category 5 cable with RJ45 Connectors. You may use over 100 feet of twin lead or category five wire to place the emitter set in a remote location from the Main Box, Eye and confirmation LED.
The Extension Box is also a unique IDC Clamping tool that clamps an Insulation Displacement Connector , (IDC), on the end of the Emitter ribbon cable. The Box has a pair of screw terminals and an RJ45 Jack that uses the 2 center leads for connection to all 12 emitter wires.
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Turbo Charge Remote Controls and Hide Your Gear! with Hot Link Pro Remote Control Booster Systems
Control freaks and neat freaks finally agree on Hot Link Pro for getting more freedom to roam with their remote controls while your AV gear stays hidden.
Hot Link Pro Hides inside your cabinet to repeat remote control signals and enhance the distance of remote controls. Hot Link Pro for 6 devices.
Hot Link Pro X12 for up to 12 devices.
Hot Link Pro is a different way to enhance remote control distance and enclose Audio and Video equipment in cabinets or closets, than the means of radio conversion, blasters or wires.
What Hot Link Pro does: Hot Link Pro is a 12 year old patented product that both allows equipment to be hidden and doubles the distance of remote controls by enhancing IR sensitivity. It is generally sold as a "single box solution" for installers and end users. It is "radio-less" and has no attachments to remotes, no batteries, no antennas and no exposed cables to trip over. Hot Link hides inside the cabinet and "sees" even the weakest signals from remotes. Is very compatible with LCD and Plasma TVs when the eye is mounted out of sight, just behind the display. With accessories, Hot Link Pro's sensors and emitters can be easily extended. Repeats carrier frequencies 18Khz to 120Khz.
Hypersensitive Receiving Eye: While Hot Link is an effective single box solution for intra cabinet repeating, it enhances the distance of remotes by being more sensitive at the receiving end rather than by adding attachments to the remote or converting to radio waves. Hot Link Pro doubles the distance of remotes up to 70 feet. In total darkness it will go up to 100 feet. But the really pleasing feature of all this hypersensitivity, is that the Eye does not have to be direct line of site! The Eye or "target" can be hidden behind a speaker grill, under a toe-kick, or behind or on top of a cabinet or looking through the slot of a door or behind a speaker grill. It does not have to be direct line of site. The Eye merely needs to be in the same room as the remote. This means no drilling of holes in high-buck cabinets and no fishing or aiming of the remote by the home theater enthusiast. We call this "radioless" technology.
Eye Mounting Options: Our patented Infrared receiver eye's hypersensitivity allows the eye to see even the weakest signals from your remote. To obtain twice the distance the eye is actually 4 times as sensitive. As the distance between the remote and the eye increases by one increment the power density is reduced by 4 times. When placed in a dark environment the eye actually increases sensitivity to remote pulses up to almost 6 times! When the Hot Link Pro Eye is placed behind a speaker grill, yes the grill "apertures" the remote signal and it also apertures the ambient light causing the eye to become more sensitive to pulsed light produced by remote control signals. This means that in general there is usually no loss and some increase in the remote control's operating range. AND THE EYE IS HIDDEN!
Hot Link Pro's IR Eye comes with a small mounting kit with a screw tab and velcro to mount the eye almost anywhere.
  
All the benefits none of the drawbacks! Hot Link Pro hides inside your cabinet while repeating remote commands faithfully and allowing you more freedom to roam with your remote! This is what we call "System Transparency". You get all of the above benefits with no attachments to the remote, no batteries, no antennas, no added radio noise and no unsightly externally mounted components. Hot Link works with your remotes. You do not have to use a specified remote as with some other brands of IR repeaters.
The Plasma Question:
Hot Link Pro WORKS WITH PLASMA TVs! Like all repeaters Hot Link Pro will "see" plasma and LCD TV Infrared spurious emissions. However when the Hot Link Pro IR Eye is mounted to the back of the set, it is shadowed from those signals and it can still "see" the remote signals. This method has been proven thousands of times over. Many installers that were trying to use "plasma proof or friendly" IR targets have changed over to Hot Links Hidden Eye approach. Many of these targets are frequency specific and require two targets for the different frequencies. The Only TV not overcome by this method is the Sharp Aqous 37 inch LCD TV. It will work these models in the larger and smaller sizes.
Plasma and LCD Compatibility of Hot Link Pro:
Will Hot Link Pro work with Plasma and LCD monitors?
Yes.
Can Hot Link Pro be used to restore functionality of my remote controls that have been lost by interference caused by my Plasma or LCD monitor?
Yes.
Plasma and LCD monitors and TVs emit spurious Infrared, IR pulses across a large spectrum of frequencies and at light wavelengths that are the same as those used for remote control transmissions. These monitor types interfere with a wide band IR remote control repeaters. Hot Link Pro has a sensitivity from 18 Khz to 120 Khz with the peak covering 38 to 60 Khz.
The hypersensitivity of Hot Link Pro allows the eye to be shadowed from these monitors and still receive the intended signals from remote controls. The Blue LED will glow if receiving noise when the remote is not in use. By mounting the Hot Link Pro Eye next to or even behind the monitor, the spurious emissions are not seen by the Eye. However since the forward power of the remote control is greater than the emissions from these monitors reflected off of furniture, the IR Eye can still see and repeat the correct remote commands.
Procedure for mitigating spurious IR noise from Plasma and LCD monitors:
Mount Receiver Eye either next to or behind the monitor. With the monitor on, rotate the Eye away from the reflected energy in the room toward the wall the monitor is mounted to until the blue indicator LED turns completely off. Even if the Eye is facing the wall the monitor is mounted to it will still see the remote commands.
Note: The Sharp Aquos LCD 37 inch is extremely IR noisy. It will require hiding the eye almost completely or covering most of it with black tape and using a high powered remote like the URC-2 or Theater Master. If this does not work, it may require using an RF repeater and using Hot Link Pro as an IR distribution source within the cabinet. Procedure to mitigate spurious IR emissions from exposed equipment: if the equipment is in the same room and has glass doors or no cabinet doors to block equipment from LCD or plasma emissions, use the following approach to mitigate spurious emissions.
After mounting Hot Link Pro, place black tape over the Hot Link Pro Emitter and original receiving eye of AV gear to prevent spurious emissions from entering the equipment through the original equipment eye.
Carrier Frequencies:
Hot Link Pro repeats everything from 18Khz to 120Khz. This means that the HDTV receivers and cable boxes that use 58Khz and 60Khz will work just as easily as all of the standard 38Khz and 40Khz AV gear. Hot Link Pro doubles the distance of IR computer mice and keyboards and PDA IR Remote Control Signals.
Hot Link Pro will not repeat only a handful of signals. Pioneer "Elite" receivers which use 1MGHz, some high-end Kenwood receivers and Sony ES receivers with a 2-way remote and Sony CDX series automotive CD players that use 455KHz. It is not designed to transfer IRDA standard IR pulses for PDAs.
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Hot Link Pro IR Distribution:
Hot Link Pro uses highly reliable stick on emitters to communicate remote commands to each piece of gear. These emitters are low powered so as not to feedback to Hot Link Pro's Receiver Eye. IR blaster type emitters do not work when equipment is on shelves that block the signal. While some IR repeaters with blaster emitters seem "easy to install" they actually can create more problems in getting the IR signal to equipment. Sometimes high-powered emitters overdrive the IR sensor on original equipment or work only when the cabinet doors are closed or only when open if mounted externally.
Expanding the Hot Link Pro:
The Eye may be extended with high-grade coax cable and the emitters may be extended over 100 feet with just 2 wires with our Emitter Extension Kit. The Coax Eye Extension Cable can be made in custom lengths up to 25 feet. Standard AV cables are not shielded well enough for the Eye. Extensions can be made from RG6 or RG59 with F connectors and adapters to RCA purchased from a local electronics retailer. Adding Coax cable to the Eye does reduce the distance from the remote to the eye. A 25 foot length brings the remote to Eye distance to about 28 feet.
 Mini Coax Eye Extension Cable 
The best way to extend Hot Link Pro particularly over great distances is with the Emitter Extension Kit. This Kit splices into the emitter cable just a few inches from the main Hot Link Pro Box and adapts all 12 wires to just 2 screw terminal connections or an RJ45 connector that uses the 2 wires in the center of the connector.
With the addition of the Emitter Extension Kit you may then add the Emitter expansion Kit X6 that adds 6 more emitters to the Hot Link Pro via an RG45 Y connector. With these two kits you may now have 6 emitters near and six at the far end of the extension or 12 emitters near or 12 emitters at the far end of the extension. You can even wire it to have the Hot Link Pro Eye and body in one location and the 2 sets of six emitters in two separate locations.
Application and Installations, Wiring Diagrams:
Hot Link Pro has a Receiver Eye, 6 or 12 emitters depending on model, 1 blue Confirmation LED that can be used to detect noise signals as well as remote commands, a Main Amplifier Box and a wall plug-in Power Supply, (not shown for clarity).
Adding an Eye location:
The Eye with Y Kit allows you to have two inputs for Hot Link Pro from 2 rooms. Perhaps you have 2 rooms that are adjacent. Just use one Eye in each room with one coax cable traveling through to the next room. The second Eye can also be used to receive IR Signals from another IR output device like a whole house controller.
If your secondary Location is not adjacent but is within 25 feet simply add a Mini Coax Eye Extension Cable with an Eye with Y Kit to place a secondary Receiver Eye in a location within 28 feet of the Hot Link Pro. Using Coax Cables will reduce the sensitivity of the remote-to-eye distance to about 28 feet.
Operating from 2 or three entertainment areas to a remote equipment area? Use a Hot Link Pro with an Emitter Extension Kit in each entertainment area with just 2 wires run to the equipment rack and place the emitters side by side on each piece of gear. One emitter from each of the input zones on the original equipment IR sensors.
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Hot Link Pro Can be installed without any extensions in applications where the Eye can see the room the remote is in. Placing the Hot Link Pro Eye with the equipment rack in the back or side of a room will most likely work even when the remote is aimed forward at the screen.
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HOT Link Pro has a big brother, The Hot Link Pro X12 with 12 emitters on 8-foot wires |
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