Faraday cage or shielding? There is a difference ... the public misuses the
term F. C.
In your case with the light, chicken wire or "hardware cloth" might provide a
suitable E-field "shield" while still letting light pass, like a SCREEN ROOM
does. Simply connecting the shield to the 3rd wire at the light might work, but
IDK (I Don't Know) for sure.
Good luck, Jim WB5WPA
From: Tom Thompson <w0ivj@tomthompson.com>
To: rfi@contesting.com
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [RFI] RF
Jim is right. I have been fighting a motion activated night light for
the last 2 days. Since the motion activated device is so small, common
mode current is probably not the culprit. I built a differential choke
and it made little difference. In desperation, I hooked a small 12 volt
battery with an inverter to power the device and still no luck. My
conclusion is the RF is coming through the air and the only thing that
might help is a Faraday cage. Since my device is a light, that won't
work, so I guess they will go back to Costco. Too bad because other
than the RF susceptibility, it is a good product.
Tom W0IVJ
On 12/23/2016 11:54 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On Fri,12/23/2016 9:59 AM, Bill Price wrote:
>> Any ideas as to how to solve this issue?
>
> Yes. Study k9yc.com/RFI-Ham.pdf NO ferrite simply clamped onto a
> wire is going to make a dent at 4 MHz. And there's no solution for
> motion-detecting stuff like that soap dispenser -- they're input
> circuitry is something very high Z and probably running wide open.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
>
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