Puck.IR() definition clarification needed

Thr 2017.08.03

Thank you @Gordon for the clarification. That was the snippet I was using.

Puck.IR([500,500,500,500,500])

Now for the tough part. How to troubleshoot IR detection, when one is unable to see infrared output. Sorry, only born with super human strength and X-Ray vision.

Have an IR pair circuit with three inches separating the detector and emitter, as in a beam break circuit. When the beam is broken, a colored LED illuminates. This works as expected.

However, when I substitute the Puck for the emitter, [Puck visible LED side facing detector] there isn't any apparent detection.

ahhh ha!! . . . Forgot the old cell phone video mode trick. That device does make the IR LED transmission visible.

Wondering what the Puck IR emitter range is? In my circuit, I seem to need to be quite close. e.g. One inch. Are you able to point me to a spec sheet? Any experience with an expected transmission distance?

re: "I don't understand the question - do you have a link to where it says that?"

From page: http://www.espruino.com/Puck.js#ir-infra­red

Fifth line below the heading "IR / Infrared"

"You can sometimes work this information . . . (a tutorial on this will be added soon)."

Re:

"The reference page mentions http://www.espruino.com/Puck.js+Infrared­ - which works."

Should your click event 'turn on a cheap IR lightbulb is' be different, than when clicked I get:

http://www.espruino.com/www.ebay.com/sch­/i.html?_nkw=ir+rgb+light+bulb&_sacat=0

This is the link that is returned in the browser, which indicates 404

Should your link be working, I wonder if browser caching is partly a cause. I'm using Chrome Version 59.0.3071.115

or, . . . as we suspect here in the States that all web traffic is intercepted and stored in the massive Zettabyte storage site in Utah USA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_­Center
and the returned link became corrupt from their tampering somehow.

https://www.forensicmag.com/article/2013­/09/data-storage-issues
"1 Zettabyte (ZB) – is equal to 1 billion Terabytes and represents approximately 36 million years of stored HD video. Recently it was reported that the National Security Agency facility located in Utah will be able to store 5 Zettabytes of information."

'The truth is out there' . . . [fade to familiar sound byte] . . . . and . . . . . cut