Hi Cortland,
The items in question have neither an FCC id nor any indication that
verification has been done. They don't say anything about it one way or the
other. Also, there are no instructions. These items are pulled from a bin
at the electrical supply house and have no packaging.
Yes, the EMI filtered unit is considerably quieter. Noise on 40 dropped
from 10 over s9 to s4, the latter being a fairly "normal" level here. I
can actually hear signals on the band again. The owners of the unit causing
the 24/7 noise turned their lights off before they left town and have agreed
to have their noisy unit replaced. That leaves 2 condos to go.
There is more to worry about than just my situation. The salesman at the
electrical supply house told me that they sell the noisy units to
electricians "by the hundreds." The same is probably going on in your
city too.
73,
Steve
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cortland Richmond" <ka5s@earthlink.net>
To: "Steven Farmer" <wa5rpf@gmail.com>; <rfi@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [RFI] Low voltage lighting solid state "transformers"
(long,somewhat OT)
> Well. as already noted, for small items you may not get a label. It is
> possible to have Part 15 information an instruction sheet, for example. I
> will add also that for Verification, there wil be no FCC ID; verfication
> it
> is done by the manufacturer, and if he says it was done at an acceptable
> lab he's probably not going to be asked any questions if if his label is
> OK!
>
> Is the EMI filtered unit actually quieter?
>
> Cortland
> KA5S
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Steven Farmer <wa5rpf@gmail.com>
>> To: <rfi@contesting.com>
>> Date: 12/21/2006 8:46:22 AM
>> Subject: Re: [RFI] Low voltage lighting solid state "transformers"
> (long,somewhat OT)
>>
>> > The thot plickens!
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> The "quiet" RT60A units purchased at the local electrical supply house
> also
>> have the backwards "RU" logo. And like the noisy units, they don't have
>> any FCC id on them. The complete text on the box is:
>>
>> ----
>> RSA LIGHTING (c) RU E187326
>> CAT NO.RT60A
>> INPUT: 120V, 50/60HZ, 60VA, 0.5A
>> OUTPUT: 11.5V, 60W MAX.
>> CLASS 2 TRANSFORMER, 5A FUSE
>>
>> WITH SURGE SUPPRESSOR, SHORT CIRCUIT PROTECTION
>> & EMI FILTER
>> FOR USE WITH 12V HALOGEN LIGHT ONLY
>>
>> CONNTECT BLACK & WHITE LEAD TO POWER AND CONNECT RED WIRES TO LAMP
>> ----
>>
>> And yes, is does say "CONNTECT" ;-)
>>
>> Googling for "RSA LIGHTING" takes you to the cooperlighting.com web site,
>> but I couldn't find any mention of the RT60A there.
>>
>> I'm confused about the labeling requirements for these things. Do they
> need
>> to have an FCC id number on them? Of the 3 different models I've seen
> so
>> far, none of them has had an FCC id.
>>
>> When I first posted about the RT60A I neglected to mention that it's much
>> larger than the units that I plan to have replaced. I *think* it will
> fit
>> into a single recep box, but I'm not yet sure. The only one that's been
>> installed so far went into a double box with a lot of extra wiring. It
> was
>> tight.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Steve WA5RPF
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>>
>>
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