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Why does the remote for the wii still work if you replace the censor with two flashlights?

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1. i doubt it
2. because the 'sensor bar' is really just 2 infra-red lights that the wii remote can see. flashlights also emit some infra-red light that the wii remote can see so they work just as well. candles work too.
3. What makes you think it will work? Im betting it wont.
4. do you mean the wii remote sensor? or the sensor bar? if the sensor bar and has been modified with 2 flashlights, no, i dont believe you. but the remote is plausable. the remote works by sending out infared radiation to the sensor bar at certain wavelengths, so if you could put the right current through the flashlights they could probably emmit non visable light below the wavelength of the visible spectrum, or some form of infared beam. i still doubt it though, sounds too farfetch'd
5. The sensor bar is just a piece of plastic with two clusters of 5 infrared LEDs on each end. You can see this clearly if you look at them with a digital camcorder. The Wii Remote has an infrared camera in the end (under the dark glassy plastic) that sees these LEDs and uses them to make an image with 2 points. (You can see this if you go into the Wii's Systems Settings and play with the Sensor Bar Sensitivity settings.) This image of two dots is used to position your cursor on screen. The Sensor Bar has nothing to do with communication between the Wiimote and the Wii, and as such is really mis-named. The Wiimote and the Wii communicate directly with each other through Bluetooth.