Wii Sensor Bar Replacements

Alpine

My sensor bar wire frayed and snapped, so right now I'm using candles which was all well and good until they burned down and I tried to replace them and wax spilled all over my tv.

So two questions: Any commonly-found replacement ideas, and what do I have to do to have Nintendo replace it?

MechMantis

Alpine wrote:

My sensor bar wire frayed and snapped, so right now I'm using candles which was all well and good until they burned down and I tried to replace them and wax spilled all over my tv.

So two questions: Any commonly-found replacement ideas, and what do I have to do to have Nintendo replace it?

Use anything that gives off infared.


Flashlights might work.

syndalis

Alpine wrote:

My sensor bar wire frayed and snapped, so right now I'm using candles which was all well and good until they burned down and I tried to replace them and wax spilled all over my tv.

So two questions: Any commonly-found replacement ideas, and what do I have to do to have Nintendo replace it?

Take your frayed wire, strip it down so you get the two cables within, and hook them up to a decent battery... one of the big flashlight ones will do.

There, you are done.

robaal

How about christmas lights?

randombattle

How about calling Nintendo and getting them to ship you a new one?

agoaj

If all else fails use fire.

Hardtarget

if you go to nintendo's online store you can order all the components seperately

Hardtarget

there you go -
long link

only 10 bucks.

BahamutZERO

Hardtarget, that link is longer than something that's really long.

Anyway, you spilled wax on your TV? That's awesome.

Athenor

here HT:

http://tinyurl.com/yfj4mb

PikaPuff

Hardtarget wrote:

there you go -

Durr I'm an idiot that can't link.
only 10 bucks.

There's no way you did that by accident.

MechMantis

PikaPuff wrote:

Hardtarget wrote:

there you go -

Durr I'm an idiot that can't link.
only 10 bucks.

There's no way you did that by accident.

Oh god my H-scroll.

Athenor

MechMantis wrote:

PikaPuff wrote:

Hardtarget wrote:

there you go -

Durr I'm an idiot that can't link.
only 10 bucks.

There's no way you did that by accident.

Oh god my H-scroll.

I'd play with the quote tree with this insane h-scroll, but I don't have a side-tilting mouse, and I might get in trouble. =(

tyrannus

candles work

BahamutZERO

Rentilius wrote:

candles work

Alpine wrote:

...so right now I'm using candles which was all well and good until they burned down and I tried to replace them and wax spilled all over my tv.

He already critically failed his candle-replacement roll once, man.

xxhennersxx

is it really his fault?

Or is it nintendo's for having INSANE LONG URLS

zero_bit

it's funny I have two hanging lights in my kitchen, and if I point at them from my couch it seems I get a better signal than if I use the led bar nintendo provides.

My scientific experiment is trying turn the hand upside down on the Wii channels screen. It jitters all around, disappearing and such when I use my Nintendo bar, but it stays solid and smooth when I use the kitchen lights that are 16 feet away.

xxhennersxx

zero_bit wrote:

it's funny I have two hanging lights in my kitchen, and if I point at them from my couch it seems I get a better signal than if I use the led bar nintendo provides.

My scientific experiment is trying turn the hand upside down on the Wii channels screen. It jitters all around, disappearing and such when I use my Nintendo bar, but it stays solid and smooth when I use the kitchen lights that are 16 feet away.

perhaps the lights are interfering with the wii sensor?

Bionic Monkey

xxhennersxx wrote:

zero_bit wrote:

it's funny I have two hanging lights in my kitchen, and if I point at them from my couch it seems I get a better signal than if I use the led bar nintendo provides.

My scientific experiment is trying turn the hand upside down on the Wii channels screen. It jitters all around, disappearing and such when I use my Nintendo bar, but it stays solid and smooth when I use the kitchen lights that are 16 feet away.

perhaps the lights are interfering with the wii sensor?

Very likely. My cursor was jittery too, until it dawned on me I had a lamp right next to the TV. Turning it off, and everything is smooth.

GertBeef

Alpine wrote:

My sensor bar wire frayed and snapped

How? Were you using it like a skipping rope or something?

Alpine

To be honest I don't know how it frayed. I move it from upstairs to downstairs about once a week, and I carry the sensor bar with the wire wrapped (loosely) around it. What I think it was, the wire got caught under the console, and got tugged as I was adjusting the bar placement.

GertBeef

Alpine wrote:

To be honest I don't know how it frayed. I move it from upstairs to downstairs about once a week, and I carry the sensor bar with the wire wrapped (loosely) around it. What I think it was, the wire got caught under the console, and got tugged as I was adjusting the bar placement.

That's scary.

I assume it would be pretty easy to reconnect the wires though?

Hardtarget

lol sorry guys, posted this ages ago and never actually looked at the reply. didn't realize the link was massive

MuddBudd

didn't some guy use a minorah?

randombattle

I can't imagine why it wouldn't work.


Honestly anything that gives off a good light will work.

imbalanced

I really am waiting for a third party sensor bar that gives more range to the pointing functions of the Wiimote. It doesn't bother me in my crappy apartment, but when I was home for the holidays I quickly found that pointing doesn't work farther than 8 feet back which is sort of annoying when you're playing on a big screen television.

Luckily I won't be returning home again for another 12 months, so I got time to wait. I'm such a bad son....

taliosfalcon

imbalanced wrote:

I really am waiting for a third party sensor bar that gives more range to the pointing functions of the Wiimote. It doesn't bother me in my crappy apartment, but when I was home for the holidays I quickly found that pointing doesn't work farther than 8 feet back which is sort of annoying when you're playing on a big screen television.

Luckily I won't be returning home again for another 12 months, so I got time to wait. I'm such a bad son....

just be thankful you've never tried DBZ. It bitches at me till i move to within around 3 feet of the sensor bar :?

Shazkar Shadowstorm

It's weird how it sometimes seems it depends on the game.. like Zelda let's me work perfecly from my couch which is >10 feet away.

Xaquin

My cat ate through my sensor bar wire .... I'm shocked that I let him live

fyi the sensor bars are backordered on Nintendo.com. I called them up to see what the wait was and they (the 2 people I talked to) said they had no idea when they would ship, but gave me a rough estimate of a little over a week

Cantido

I didn't want to use the glue straps Nintendo gave, so I used sticky, reusable poster tack.

Bionic Monkey

imbalanced wrote:

I really am waiting for a third party sensor bar that gives more range to the pointing functions of the Wiimote. It doesn't bother me in my crappy apartment, but when I was home for the holidays I quickly found that pointing doesn't work farther than 8 feet back which is sort of annoying when you're playing on a big screen television.

Luckily I won't be returning home again for another 12 months, so I got time to wait. I'm such a bad son....

Huh? I sit about 16 feet back from a 30" TV, and pointing works just fine.