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Re: [RFI] treadmill noise

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Subject: Re: [RFI] treadmill noise
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 20:05:46 -0800
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On Fri,2/26/2016 6:20 PM, Lionel Booth wrote:
Hi Jim,

Yep, I mounted the Delta inside of the enclosure with the electronics and the motor. The PWM controller I think is the source of the noise. I had 30 over noise in 5 -10 kHz wide every 15 to 30 kHz ( this may be off a bit, it's been a while) from 40 meters through 12 meters. Since the treadmill was in use during the day I didn't look on 80 or 160 but suppose it was terrible.

Can you look at 160 and 80? I think that's where David's problem is.


At first I tried clamp on Palomar chokes on the half inch power cable.

Those are not "Palomar" chokes, they are Fair-Rite VHF clamp-ons that Ralomar resells (and at obscene markups).

At six chokes, one pass, 43 mix, I found almost no improvement. Clearly not enough impedance.

No surprise -- those are NOT common mode chokes below 50 MHz! They are VHF chokes. I suggest that you study k9yc.com/RFI-Ham.pdf

The Delta took the interference down below my local noise level. The cost of the big clamp ons or toroids quickly exceeds the cost of the delta.

Of course -- you didn't understand the technique, so you bought the wrong parts and used them incorrectly.

I did try winding a choke and putting inside the enclosure on the ac line.

How many turns?  What was the core?

This helped but not enough. I seem to recall the delta is a balanced pi section filter rated at 20 amps: the circuit is on a 20 amp CB.

Installed the way you did it, the Delta should work pretty well.

73, Jim K9YC
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