[RFI] Low Voltage light RFI

[Pete Smith]

At 01:24 PM 7/11/03 -0400, KE2N at cs.com wrote:
>I ran into this same problem when I installed some halogen "puck" lights 
>in the kitchen. Switching supplies wiped out HF reception.  For the new 
>house, I specified the "magnetic transformer" option for the lights and it 
>is RFI-quiet.
>
>Imagine: magnetic transformers - what will they think of next!


Funny, I have three sets made by GE - 8 lamps total - that use some sort of 
switching black lump, and they are totally RF quiet.  The only problem is 
that something -- probably their overtemp sensing -- is unduly fussy, so 
the darned things keep shutting themselves off...

Wouldn't something like this be soluble by the same sort of filtration as 
other switching power supplies?

73, Pete N4ZR
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