I've had one of those replacement fluorescents on 24/7 for years and
never a peep. It's in the basement directly under my shack. I think
it's a 15 watt with the light of a 40 or 50 watt regular bulb.
I do have a couple of shop lights, (4 foot) which are terrible noise
makers until I changed the tubes. My next door neighbor has one also
and when it's on it puts out S-9 noise. I bought a MFJ 1026 which
takes it out completely. The NB does the job too but distorts the
audio of the station I'm trying to copy. The dimmer lights are
awful, I had one and I not only received noise from it I caused it to
turn on when transmitting. I partly cured it with a RF choke and a
resistor, but not completely. It's unplugged and not in use anymore.
Dale
On 25, Sep 2005, at 22:31, Scott Neader KA9FOX wrote:
> Hey guys. I started getting on this kick of replacing our lights
> in the
> house with Fluorescent equivalents, to obviously save money and do
> a little
> thing to conserve energy. I've replaced about 25 so far. They
> were the
> 60w and 100w basic light bulb equivalents. I started looking into
> replacements for some of our most used 65w and 75w floods &
> reflectors in
> the recessed cans around the house when... whoa, what am I
> doing?!?!?! Could this be a potential RFI problem?
>
> I searched the archives on this reflector, but not seeing much.
> Any input
> would be appreciate. I'll also try some tests with the existing
> bulbs and
> see what I can hear, if anything.
>
> FYI, what got me going on this was that I seem to be seeing these
> things
> everywhere I look. Home Depot sells a 6 pack of the 60w
> fluorescent light
> bulbs for $9.95 a pack, and I just picked up a 6 pack of 100w bulbs
> for
> $15.50 at Sam's Club today. The draw to saving 75% of the electricity
> costs and lasting 4-7 years is certainly interesting. I would
> think we'd
> be seeing a lot of posts if these things were causing RFI
> problems... but
> maybe I'm the only ham to be dumb enough to bring them into the house?
>
> - Scott KA9FOX
>
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