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1. [TowerTalk] Query RFI (score: 1)
Author: WarrenWolff@aol.com
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:11:36 EST
Before someone jumps my case, I am posting here because I know you TTalkers are after the really weak ones. I am told that low halogens are BIG generators of noise. Is that really true? On the same n
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-11/msg00382.html (7,041 bytes)

2. Re: [TowerTalk] Query RFI (score: 1)
Author: "k6xyz" <k6xyz@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:42:52 -0600
I have several 'torch' style lamps with halogen bulbs including the dimmers. The halogen lamps don't make noise but the dimmers sure do!! You might be able to RFI proof the dimmers but why take a cha
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-11/msg00383.html (8,247 bytes)

3. Re: [TowerTalk] Query RFI (score: 1)
Author: "K8RI on TowerTalk" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:57:23 -0500
As Dave has already said, Dimmers do make noise. Generally they are nothing more than a triac (bi-directional SCR) and create a terrible wave form. Different lights, different problems. I've never ha
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-11/msg00386.html (9,039 bytes)

4. [TowerTalk] Query RFI (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:21:55 -0500
Search the RFI thread at contesting.com.... There was a post a year or two back, regarding dimmers, and a brand which was properly bypassed, and quiet. No longer remember the answer...just the place
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-11/msg00395.html (7,387 bytes)

5. Re: [TowerTalk] Query RFI (score: 1)
Author: ersmar@comcast.net
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:31:46 +0000
TT: There was also a more recent thread in which Levitron and Lutron were mentioned as makers of low-RFI dimmers. FWIW. 73 de Gene Smar AD3F _______________________________________________ __________
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-11/msg00397.html (8,378 bytes)

6. Re: [TowerTalk] Query RFI (score: 1)
Author: Peter Dougherty <w2irt@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:13:44 -0500
When we put in new lighting in the house last month we went with Lutron "smart" dimmers (3-way dimmers that "talk" to each other), and so far not a whit of detectable RFI from them, nor from conventi
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-11/msg00406.html (8,504 bytes)

7. Re: [TowerTalk] Query RFI (score: 1)
Author: kd4e <kd4e@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:59:21 -0500
Please advise if they age well -- I have been warned in the past that some lights and switches start out quiet but as they age become increasingly noisy. -- Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E ... somewhere in
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-11/msg00407.html (9,283 bytes)

8. Re: [TowerTalk] Query RFI (score: 1)
Author: "michael taylor" <mctylr@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:34:50 -0500
I believe the power converter for low voltage (12V ?) mini-halogens might be cheap switch mode power supplies, so if I would not be surprised if low end models were noisy. I don't know about the bulb
/archives//html/Towertalk/2006-11/msg00409.html (8,717 bytes)


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