[RFI] CFL bulbs - Inpact of Aging

[Cortland Richmond]

While living in the hills above Santa Rosa CA, a 6-month-old CFL I'd put in the unheated laundry room expired noisily.  Although some distance from my antennas, it produced s9+ noise from 160m - 10m.  I was getting ready to move at the time, so was unable to send it off to Ed Hare for failure aalysis.    

Now that I live in Michigan*, I am "cold-testing" CFL's in outdoor lamp fixtures. Stay tuned.   I still have some LISN's and my "new" 8590 arrived last week, too.

*(Except my employer has me in _Burbank_ for a while.)


Cortland
KA5S

-----Original Message-----
>From: kd4e <doc at kd4e.com>
>Sent: Oct 19, 2007 9:54 AM
>To: rfi at contesting.com
>Subject: [RFI] CFL bulbs - Inpact of Aging
>
>Has anyone seen a study of CFL's over time?
>
>I read somewhere that the aging process, mostly
>heat, power surges, and brownouts, wreaks havoc
>and that over time CFL's can become incrementally
>more noisy.